Dr. Susana P. Pereira is a Research Scientist at the UCIBIO from NOVA University of Lisbon and the University of Coimbra, Portugal. In 2016, she earned a PhD in Biosciences at UC. Her significant contributions to the field of fetal programming and heart disease have earned her 36 prestigious awards. Susana led groundbreaking research projects on the prenatal nutritional environment's impact on offspring cardiometabolic health and sexual dimorphism in the relationship between pregnancy nutrition and cardiac dysfunction. She has published 44 papers in various high-impact journals, with 18 in the top 10% (including 4 in the top 2% and 6 in the top 5%), 35 in the top 25%, 8 as the first author, 17 as the last author, 17 as a corresponding author, 2 as the first author and 1 last author book chapter. She actively contributes to the scientific community by serving as a role model for various scientific societies and research projects. She prioritizes knowledge dissemination and organizing scientific meetings and outreach science activities. Her research encompasses a wide range of topics, including developmental biology, molecular genetics, heart disease, and premature cardiac aging. Her research interests span fetal programming, cardiac development, environmental factors, and molecular pathways, as well as neural development and cancer development.