Maria Pia de Melo Alvim Ferraz Tavares graduated in Food Engineering (ESB-UCP, 1996) and has a PhD in Engineering Sciences (FEUP, 2000) and habilitation in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (FEUP, 2023). She is currently a Professor at the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP) and a Researcher at the Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde in Universidade do Porto (i3S/INEB). She works in multidisciplinary subjects, e.g., OneHealth, infectious diseases, biomaterials with antimicrobial properties, antimicrobial resistance mechanisms (ARM) and alternatives to ARM, and microorganisms’ multispecies biofilms. She has published 61 documents with 2271 citations and an h-index of 27 (SCOPUS).