Luísa Barreira is an Associate Professor of the Chemistry and Pharmacy Department of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Algarve. She has a PhD in Environmental Sciences and Technologies and is currently a senior researcher at the Algarve Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR). Her research focuses on the search for natural products with biological activities in marine organisms as well as the production of biofuels and other bioproducts from microalgae.