AM Coimbra has a PhD in Biomedical Sciences (2006) at Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar-Porto University, with her PhD work developed at CIIMAR-UP and IBMC-UP. Since then, AM Coimbra has 17 years of research activity (with some periods of interruption between contracts and a maternity leave) as post-doctoral fellow and as assistant researcher, at CIIMAR-UP for more than a year and the remaining at University of Trás-os Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) in the Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB). AM Coimbra is currently President of the Executive Committee of CITAB, and has been member since 2019. AM Coimbra research focus mainly in pharmaceuticals (endocrine disruptors, among others) action on zebrafish (Danio rerio) reproduction and embryo development, but also includes environmental monitoring works using fish biomarkers. Recently she started to also work in ecotoxicology studies with an invertebrate model (Eisenia fetida). Her studies include evaluation of endpoints at several levels of organization, from molecular and biochemical to tissue and even individual endpoints.