Emília Sousa is a researcher at CIIMAR and associate professor with habilitation of Medicinal Chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto. She obtained her degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Porto in 1997 and her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry from the same university in 2003. The area of scientific activity is centered on Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, in particular, in the structure-based design and synthesis of potential drug candidates based on plant and marine natural product leads, in studies of structure-activity relationships and preclinical/preformulation studies. She has 177 publications with 4601 citations and an h-index of 36 (Scoups, 6 November 2023).