Joana Oliveira graduated in Physics from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP) and received her Ph.D. in Physics from the same university in July 2007. She is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) and a researcher at LSRE-LCM, the Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering / Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials. Her research activities are mainly focused on electrochemical energy storage and environmental energy harvesting, with major applications in the fields of solid-state sodium batteries, seawater batteries, water-evaporation-induced generators, structural energy storage materials, and thermal management devices. Her research career included extended research stays at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge, where she worked in advanced numerical modelling and simulation using the COSMOS supercomputer clusters; the Departament d'Estructura i Constituents de la Materia, Facultat de Fisica, University of Barcelona; and the Departamento de Física da Universidade Federal da Paraíba, where she carried out postdoctoral research in the field theory group. She coordinated two FCT-funded projects and served as FEUP coordinator in three others, and participated in around 30 national and European projects. She authored/co-authored more than 120 scientific contributions, including over 50 international journal papers and 70 communications at national and international conferences. Her publication record includes journals such as Advanced Functional Materials, Nano Energy, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Applied Physics Reviews, Energy Conversion and Management, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, ACS Applied Energy Materials, Physical Review D and Physical Review E. Her work has received over 2100 citations and generated three international patent applications in solid-state batteries and thermal management devices. She currently supervises and co-supervises six Ph.D. students and two M.Sc. students. She currently serves as Director of the Doctoral Programme in Engineering Physics at the University of Porto, has served on the Executive Committee of the Department of Engineering Physics at FEUP for nine years, has acted as expert evaluator for European and national research and innovation funding schemes, such as M-ERA.NET and SIID, serves on Ph.D. and M.Sc. juries, and has contributed to the organization of several scientific meetings and science outreach activities.