Ana R. Freitas is a contracted Investigator at the Research Unit on Applied Molecular Biosciences (UCIBIO@REQUIMTE) in the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto (FFUP), being currently a scientific ambassador of the research group that she belongs to (BacTdrugs lab). She is also an Invited Assistant Professor of Microbiology at the University Institute of Health Sciences (IUCS-CESPU), the secretary of the Food- and Water-borne Infections Study Group from the prestigious European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), a trusted scientific reviewer from ESCMID, and a member of the UCIBIO Communication Working Group. She works in the field of Health Sciences and Infectious Diseases and develops research in Antimicrobial Resistance for >10 years. Her main research activity involves the molecular epidemiology and evolution of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria, especially enterococci, from a One Health perspective.