Paula Ludovico graduated in Biology, University of Porto (1994), has Master thesis on Molecular Genetics, University of Minho (1999) and a PhD in Biological Sciences, University of Minho (2002). She is an Associate Professor with habilitation at School of Medicine and a Principal Investigator at the Health and Life Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine, University of Minho. From 2019-2023, she was the Pro-director for ICVS. Paula was a pioneer on the study of regulated cell death in yeast and has been using this eukaryotic model to address important questions on proteostasis and metabolism control during cellular aging. Paula Ludovico is also interested in an age-related disease, the acute myeloid leukemia, and has been involved in many projects on diagnosis, pathogenesis, treatment and monitoring of AML. Her track record is currently mirrored by 92 publications in international peer-reviewed journals (>9000 citations and h-index=32) and 5 book chapters. She has been supported by funding agencies and contracts with the industry (e.g., Amicus therapeutics and Novartis). She is an editorial board member for Cancers and Microbial Cell, and she has been an ad-hoc reviewer for more than 70 journals and several funding agencies.