Ana Paula Valagão Amadeu do Serro completed her doctorate degree in Chemistry in 2001 at the University of Lisbon at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and her bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering in 1994 at the same Institution. Currently, she is an associate professor at IST. She has been awarded the distinction "Excellent Professor" at IST four times since 2019. Her previous positions include principal researcher at the University Institute Egas Moniz and vice-director of the Research Center CiiEM. She supervises/has supervised 10 Ph.D. students (6 of them already concluded) and 42 MSc students. She is the author of about 125 publications in indexed international journals mainly in the field of biomaterials—materials engineering, 14 publications in international congress proceedings, 1 book chapter, about 280 communications at scientific conferences, 25 invited lectures, and 10 awarded communications. She has an h-index of 31, with more than 3400 citations (Scopus). She leads/has led several national and international projects (FCT, MERA.NET, MARIE-CURIE). Her main interests include biomaterial development and characterization, controlled drug release, hydrogels (ophthalmic lenses, wound dressings, scaffolds, and cartilage substitutes), ceramic dental materials, biotribology, the adsorption of biomolecules onto biomaterials, and sterilization.