Filipa Mendes is a Principal Researcher (with tenure) at Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Engineering. She completed a PhD in Cellular Biology at the Faculty of Sciences of ULisboa in December 2004. During her post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Health in Lisboa, she received two awards: the Gulbenkian Award “Estímulo à Investigação” and the L'Oréal Medal of Honour for Women in Science. Her scientific activity takes place at C2TN-Center for Nuclear Sciences and Technologies, where she is currently the Coordinator of the thematic strand "Radiopharmaceutical Sciences and Health Physics" and a member of the Coordinating Commission of the Scientific Council (CC-CC). She was a Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in the summer of 2023. Since 2023, she has been a member of the steering committee of the European Working Group on Radiobiology of Molecular Radionuclide Therapy.