Ana Sofia Faria is a Microbiologist with a MSc in Biotechnology for the Health Sciences, and currently a PhD student in Veterinary Sciences of the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro. A collaborator member of the Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB-UTAD) since 2014, the Global Health and Tropical Medicine (GHTM, IHMT-UNL) since 2015 and team member of the Laboratory of Applied Ecology from (LEA, CITAB) since 2017, she has worked as a research fellow in R&D projects (SUSTAINSYS, INTERACT) and environmental monitoring programs (PIMA). She is author and co-author in 5 peer-reviewed international papers and several other scientific conference communications in the fields of epidemiology and laboratory diagnosis of zoonotic diseases, with an emphasis on Lyme disease and leptospirosis research. Presently she works as a research fellow at the Mountain Research Center (CIMO) of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB), where she develops research in the area of food safety and microbiology applied to regional artisanal food products.