Cristina Santos Louro currently works as an assistant professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Coimbra, Portugal. She received her D.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering in 1991 and her M.Sc. in Materials Engineering in 1995, graduating with excellent grades, both from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She completed with honors and distinction the Ph.D. in 2000 in mechanical engineering at the University of Coimbra. She has a broad higher education activity, covering skills and knowledge of materials science and engineering in several undergraduate and graduate-level programs from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, UC, Coimbra, such as mechanical, materials, physics, environmental, industrial, and biomedical engineering. Her scientific output includes almost 90 publications, of which 40 articles are described in the Science database, corresponding to 744 citations (h-index 16) (Scopus, 9 October 2023).