Inês Paciência obtained her PhD in Biomedical Sciences at ICBAS with her project entitled “Determinants of paediatric asthma: a three-level approach”, having graduated with a degree in Clinical Analysis and Public Health from the Lisbon School of Health Technology and having obtained a master’s degree in public health from the University of Porto Medical School. She began her professional journey in 2011 as a research fellow at the Laboratory of Indoor Air Quality. Here, she integrated several national and international projects, whose main objectives were related to the assessment of the impact of exposure to indoor air in different settings on asthma and allergic diseases. Inês was also awarded an EAACI Research Fellowship in 2018 for her work “How indoor environment can shape human microbiome: culture-independent approaches”, carried out at Helsinki, where she had the opportunity to be involved in the methodology of microbiome analysis. Inês is also a member of the Epidemiology of Allergic Conditions Laboratory (ITR, Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health). In 2021, Inês was elected as a board member of the One Health Workgroup for the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. She is currently a post-doc researcher at the Center for Environmental and Respiratory Health Research (CERH) in Oulu, Finland. Her main research interest is the impact of environmental determinants on allergic diseases and asthma.