I received a Ph.D. in Ecophysiology from the Universidade de Lisboa in 2012 and I am currently working as a Post Doc in the Plant-Soil Ecology group of cE3c. My research focuses on disentangling the impacts of anthropogenic changes in N and P supplies on the structure and functioning of terrestrial Mediterranean ecosystems. For many years, I have been studying N cycling in ecosystems and N nutrition as a driving force for plant and soil ecology using several approaches (physiological, biochemical, and more ecosystem-oriented). My interests include the role of N in ecological succession, primary productivity, C-P-N interactions, physiology of inorganic N assimilation, and the role of plant–soil interactions in N acquisition. I collaborate with several national and international researchers, mostly working on the impacts of N and P on ecosystem structure and functioning, plant nutrition, biogeography, stoichiogenomics, genome and ionome analyses, and soil microbiology and modelling. My current research integrates species’ responses to N and P supplies as a function of their own N and P demands in order to: i) improve the understanding of plant community changes driven by regional and global NP imbalances; and ii) predict changes in species’ distribution.