Ricardo Manuel de Seixas Boavida Ferreira. Research Group: Plants for Health and Nutrition CV synopsis: Professional position: Full Professor at the Instituto Superior de Agronomia from the University of Lisbon Personal: born 1957, married, six children. Motto: Basic research to solve everyday problems. Research interests: with a very wide range of collaborations, strong multidisciplinary research allowing to take research from the lab bench to plate, clinic, or farm. Research areas: transcript-, proteo-, and metabolomics in cell–cell and cell–molecule interactions, involved in plant– and human–pathogen interactions and human health and nutrition.