Cristiana Ferreira is a post-doctoral research fellow and invited assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto. She has a BSc in civil engineering (2000) and an MSc in soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering (2003) from UPorto. Her PhD in civil engineering (2009), developed at the Universities of Porto and Bristol, was entitled "The use of seismic wave velocities in the measurement of stiffness of a residual soil". Cristiana is an integrated member of CONSTRUCT (Institute of R&D in Structures and Construction) and has been a research team member in one H2020 European and eight national FCT research projects, two of which she funded as principal investigator. She has supervised or co-advised twenty-one MSc dissertations and five ongoing PhD theses. Cristiana has received three awards and one honours award from two Portuguese engineering societies. She has published two books as editor, 27 papers in national and international scientific journals and more than 50 papers in international and national conference proceedings. She is also a peer reviewer for one national and fourteen international scientific journals. Her research is mainly focused on soil characterization, seismic wave-based non-destructive testing, geophysical and geotechnical site characterization, seismic and static liquefaction, liquefaction mitigation and mechanics of non-textbook geomaterials (residual soils, mine tailings, cemented geomaterials).