Prof. Dr. Helena Soares is a professor at the Lisbon Higher School of Health Technology, Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, and a researcher at the Structural Chemistry Center, Institute of Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. She received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences, with a Specialty in Molecular Biology and a related discipline of Molecular Genetics, from the Institute of Biomedical Sciences "Abel Salazar" of the University of Porto, in 1992. She received her Degree in Biology (scientific branch) from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon in 1986. Her studies have focused on how the components of the tubulin-folding pathway are involved in microtubule dynamics and in cilia biogenesis, and she is interested in cell architecture and polarity.