Carla Pereira is a Junior Researcher (CEECIND/03974/2017) in the Biology Department (Laboratory Microbiology Applied) and a member of the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) at the University of Aveiro. In 2016, she graduated with a PhD in Biology (specialisation in microbiology) from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. She has published 43 papers in Web of Science (WoS) journals, with more than 1240 citations and an h-index of 20 (Source: Scopus, 05/2024). Additionally, she has published three conference proceedings communications, 15 oral communications, and 55 poster communications. She has participated in several projects which have fallen within their scope or as a team member. Her experience has been recognized by journal Editors, as part of the journal’s Scientific Committee, through the solicitation for manuscript peer-reviews. She was invited to be the Editor of two Special Issues on phage therapy to control pathogenic bacteria for the open access journal Antibiotics. During this period, she was also involved in the supervision/co-supervision of PhD (one ongoing), Master's (eight concluded and six ongoing), and undergraduate students (six concluded and one ongoing). Since the academic year of 2020/2021, she has delivered lessons on Microbiology and Genetics in Biology, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry as an Invited Assistant Professor at UA.