Ana Lúcia Cabral Cardoso Lopes obtained her education at the University of Coimbra, having completed a degree in Industrial Chemistry in 1998, the MSc in Chemistry in 2003 and PhD in Chemistry (specialization in Chemical Synthesis) in 2009. She is currently a Researcher at the Chemistry Department of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra, integrated in the Organic Chemistry Research Group (OrgChem@CQC). Her interests are mainly in the area of synthetic organic chemistry.