Ana Raquel Maceiras obtained a degree in Biochemistry in 2009 by Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (Portugal), followed by a master in Molecular Genetics by Escola de Ciências da Universidade do Minho (Portugal) in 2012. For the second year of her master degree, she moved to Prof Victoria Shingler’s lab at the Molecular Biology Department of Umea University (Sweden), to develop her master thesis work. In March 2017, Ana Raquel Maceiras obtained a PhD in Immunology by Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa from the work developed in Prof Luis Graca’s lab at Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM) in Lisbon (Portugal). During the 4 years of her PhD studies (2013-2017), her research focus was on T follicular regulatory (Tfr) cells with major implications for the prevention of auto-reactive B cells and, consequently, for the onset of autoimmune diseases. In June 2017, she joined Dr Margarida Saraiva’s lab at Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S) in Porto (Portugal). since then, her research focus has been in the immune response to tuberculosis, a disease that is still a major cause of mortality worldwide.