I graduated in Biology at the Faculty of Sciences, Univ. of Lisbon (FCUL) in 2008, while maintaining a full-time job as a flight attendant at TAP-Portugal. This triggered my curiosity to understand sleep, sleep deprivation, and the mismatch between external timing and internal timekeeping. So, in 2011 I decided to do a MSc in Human Biology and Environment. After my MSc (2012) I decided to work in this field and performed a national survey on sleep, fatigue, and well-being of airline pilots, at the Portuguese Civil Aviation Authority. In 2014 started working as a chronobiologist at CENC–Sleep Medicine Center, implemented training courses in sleep hygiene techniques and fatigue countermeasures for shift workers, and following up Circadian Rhythms Sleep-Wake Disorder (CRSWD) patients, using actigraphy, melatonin measurements and phototherapy. Supporting physicians treating patients with CRSWD, resulted in first-author publications. Since I was passionate about research, I decided to do a PhD and was granted a PhD fellowship by the EnviHealthCo FCT program (FMUL) under the supervision of Till Roenneberg (chronobiologist), Teresa Paiva (sleep neurologist) and Luisa Lopes (neuroscientist) to study sleep and biological rhythms in the general population and in sleep disorder patients. During my PhD, I was trained in advanced methods in chronobiology at the LMU-Munich, mentored by Professor Till Roenneberg. I was also a visiting scholar at the Northwestern University- Chicago (neurology department), Centre for Sleep and Circadian Medicine at Dr. Phyllis Zee lab, deepening my knowledge in circadian disorders and working with DSWPD patients and learning pupillometry. After finishing my PhD, I returned to Lisbon with the goal of working in circadian rhythms. Since Portugal is the most Western European country it has a special location. I started as a Post-doc at the LLopes lab in iMM working in human chronobiology and as visiting professor at Catholic University lecturing in graduate and post-graduation and coordinating a post-graduation course in Sleep Psychology. I supervised 2 MSc students (Psychology in Business & Economics, FCH UCP); currently supervising 3 MSc and co-supervising 2 PhD students (psychology and public health). I integrated international collaboration projects where we could find that Portuguese are on average late chronotypes (EU-SLEEP) and showed the effects of lockdown on sleep (Q1; IF: 4.99) and daylight exposure and sleep duration and well-being (Q1; IF:5.3) (GlobalChronoCorona, PT-PI). In 2021 I included a sleep expert’s collaboration network ICOSS as PT-PI. We evaluate the effects of Coronavirus infection in sleep (3 published papers and more are in preparation). My knowledge in this field was already recognized by the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS) with the invitation to contribute to the chapter Pathophysiology of Delayed Sleep in the European Sleep Medicine Textbook. I am the first Portuguese certified Somnologist – sleep scientist by the ESRS, allowing me to start clinical research in the sleep field in Portugal. I’m currently an active member of the Biological Rhythms and Sleep Research Societies. I was a member and founder of the Early Career Research Network (ESRS) from 2014-2017, currently co-chair of the Digital Communication Committee of the ESRS. I published 12 papers as first author, 12 as co-author, 1 book chapter. Track record: 513 citations; h-index – 12; h10-index – 15. I serve as a reviewer for several journals in the field: Sleep, Sleep Medicine, Frontiers in Physiology–section chronobiology (review editor), Scientific Reports, Translational Psychiatry, Journal of Sleep Research, and Addiction. During the last 5 years, I received travel scientific awards and grants from sleep and circadian rhythms societies (e.g., ESRS, SRBR, SRS) but also companies. I collaborate in several funded projects.