Adelaide Almeida is a Full Professor at the Department of Biology of the University of Aveiro (Portugal), where she got her PhD degree, in 2001, and her habilitation, in 2015. She is an integrated member of the Associated Laboratory Centre for Environmental and Marine Sciences (CESAM). In the last few years, she has been involved in the development and application of alternative methods to the use of antibiotics, such as photodynamic therapy and phage therapy. She has published in these fields and her publications can be found at http://www.cesam.ua.pt/adelaidealmeida.