She belongs to the direction board of CEB and is the head of the Phage Biotechnology Research Group. Her main research interests are biofilm science and technology and bacteriophage biotechnology.Joana Azeredo obtained her PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering from the University of Minho (1998) on Biofilm Science and Technology. She has been responsible for several national and European projects related to the areas previously mentioned. She is/was responsible for the supervision of 14 PhD students and 25 MSc students and has published more than 120 international refereed papers, 10 international book chapters, 2 books and 2 patents. Her H-index is 30.