Fátima Oliveira Martins obtained her PhD in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine in 2014 from the University of Coimbra. Prior to this, she received an MSc in Biochemistry in 2010 and a bachelor degree in biochemistry in 2006 from the University of Coimbra. She is a researcher at Nova Medical School/Universidade Nova de Lisboa where she studies the mechanisms involved in metabolic diseases. She has published more than 20 papers in peer-review journals and presented many oral and poster communications in the most important international and national meetings in her research area. She has been enrolled in the supervision and co-supervision of many undergraduate and Master's projects. She was an associate professor at the University of Aveiro and taught the course of Anatomophysiology from 2016 to 2017 and served as an affiliated assistant Professor at Nova Medical School in Pharmacology, teaching the Nutrition Degree from 2020 to 2022. She received many prizes for best communications, best student, etc. Finally, she created a biotech startup in 2015, named Lifetag Diagnostics, that is developing a new methodology for the diagnostics of intestinal permeability alterations.