Claudia S. Marques graduated in Biology (Universidade de Évora - Portugal) in 2003. In 2011, she obtained a doctoral degree in Biomedical Sciences, specializing in Parasitology at the Intituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (Universidade Nova de Lisboa). She has more than 8 years of postdoctoral experience and has been a team member/postdoc researcher in several competitive national and international projects. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at Instituto de Ciências, Tecnologias e Agroambiente - Centro de Estudos de Ciencia Animal, University of Porto and Instituto Nacional de Saúde Pública Dr. Ricardo Jorge - Porto, and she worked in a Horizon 2020-supported project: SafeConsume. This project aimed to reduce foodborne illnesses by changing consumer´s behavior; the specific tasks were to detect and quantify Toxoplasma gondii oocysts in fresh vegetables and fruits. In parallel, she also worked on the detection and characterization of other food and waterborne parasites (Cryptosporidium spp., Giardia duodenalis, and Cyclospora cayetanensis). C.S. Marques is an author/co-author of 30 publications in WOS journals having an impact factor in areas such as parasitology, infectious diseases, microbiology, veterinary science, food science, namomedicine, oncology, and immunology (9 publications as first author, 19 in Q1 journals in their research field; accumulated impact factor of 120, >400 citations and an h-Index of 14).