Marina received her Environmental Health degree from ESTeSL in 2010, having won the Caixa Geral de Depósitos award for the best student of the course for that year. In 2016, Marina earned her Ph.D. degree in Environmental Sciences by TUDelft, Delf, The Netherlands. She is currently Associate Professor in Lisbon School of Health Technology (ESTeSL), Lisbon, Portugal and researcher in two Portuguese Research Centers: Health and Technology and Research Center (H&TRC) and Center For Nuclear Sciences and Technologies (C2TN). Since 2010, Almeida-Silva has participated in 16 national and international research projects in diverse topics, such as aerosol characterization, air quality assessment, human exposure to air pollutants, air quality monitoring, sustainable mobility, low carbon economy, neutron activation analysis, nuclear techniques, among others. Moreover, all these collaborations potentiated the possibility to participate in European networks and platforms, such as FAIRMODE and the Cost Actions COLOSSAL and SHELDON. All these activities and collaborations have enabled the improvement of the relations between a wide range of disciplines and stakeholders, from researchers to business stakeholders and between teachers and society actors. This reinforces the importance of performing cutting-edge R&D activities with relevance and application in real world. Almeida-Silva published 2 books, 2 book chapters, and 36 scientific articles (WoS), 13 as first author. She also published 5 scientific articles (non-WoS), 31 publications in international proceedings books with ISBN, and more than 50 communications in national and international conferences. Almeida-Silva has an h-index of 15. Recently, Almeida-Silva was recruited by the World Health organization to be Advisory on Technical Group for Air Pollution and Health.