Lara Mills is a PhD student at the University of Algarve. She received a master’s degree in Marine and Coastal Systems at the University of Algarve in 2019 and continued to work at the university as a researcher. Her current research includes modeling the impacts of waves on underwater cultural heritage. Before this, she studied the impacts of climate change, namely how sea surface temperature has changed around the Iberian Peninsula. She has received two “best paper” awards for papers written about her master thesis on the impacts of sea level rise in the Guadiana Estuary.