Prof. Dr. Lucinda J. Bessa is an Associate Professor at the Egas Moniz School of Health & Science and an integrated member of the Egas Moniz Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Almada, Portugal. Her primary research interests include antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial and antibiofilm activities, bacterial biofilms, oral biofilms, the oral microbiome, the oral resistome, and metagenomics. She holds a First Degree (2007) and a Master's Degree (2009) in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Portugal. In 2013, she earned her PhD in Biomedical, Cytomorphological, and Motor Function Sciences from Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara, Italy. From 2013 to 2021, she served as a researcher at the University of Porto, conducting studies in microbiology, molecular biology, and biotechnology.