Flávia Sousa is a senior researcher at Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI) in Fribourg, Switzerland. She completed her MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2013 and obtained her PhD in Biomedical Sciences at ICBAS, University of Porto in 2019. Her PhD was developed at I3S (Porto, Portugal) in collaboration with INL (International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal), Aalborg University (Aalborg, Denmark) and Northeastern University (Boston, USA). After finishing her PhD studies, Flávia Sousa completed her first postdoctoral studies at Imperial College London, followed by a Marie Curie MINDED fellowship at IIT (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia). In 2022, she began an independent Women in Science (WINS) research fellowship within the group of Prof. Dr. Alke Fink, awarded by the NCCR for Bio-Inspired Materials. Her current research is focused on developing polymeric nanodelivery systems for biomolecule delivery (e.g., monoclonal antibodies, proteins, saRNA). In the past 5 years, she has authored over 30 publications, received 8 scientific awards from different countries, acquiring over 1000 citations and yielding a H-index of 19. She is an invited Associate Professor at IUCS, Instituto Universitário Ciências da Saúde, a position she has held since 2018 in the master of pharmaceutical sciences and nutrition sciences. To date, she has taught more than 400h in the pharmaceutical technology, biotoxicology, nanomedicine, biotechnology and analytical chemistry field.