Luisa Custódio graduated in Agronomy in 1999 from the University of Algarve (Portugal). In 2006, she completed her Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (Plant Biotechnology). Between 2006 and 2009, she had a PostDoctoral scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology, FCT. In 2009, she joined the Marine Biotechnology group of the Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR, University of Algarve) and started, along with J. Varela (group leader) and L. Barreira (Assistant Professor) a new line of research: bioactive compounds of marine origin. In July 2013, she was hired as an assistant researcher in the FCT researcher contest. She has 140 publications with 3361 citations and an h-index of 34 (Scoups, 24 October 2023).