Sofia R. Pauleta finished her Ph.D. in Biochemistry–Biophysical Chemistry in 2003 at the NOVA University of Lisbon under the supervision of Prof. Graham W. Pettigrew, University of Edinburgh (UK) and Prof. Isabel Moura, NOVA University of Lisbon. In 2007, after a post-doctoral fellowship under the co-supervision of Prof. Ivano Bertini and Prof. Paola Turano, at CERM, University of Florence (Italy), she returned to Portugal. She was awarded an Assistant Researcher position at REQUIMTE, followed by an IF-FCT-2013 researcher contract, a highly competitive program, as Principal Investigator, and in 2019 started a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor at FCT NOVA. Since 2022 she has been the Coordinator of the Master's degree in Biochemistry at FCT NOVA. Additionally, since 2009, she has been the PI of the Microbial Stress Lab@UCIBIO NOVA (https://ucibio.pt/research-groups/lab/microbial-stress).