Maria Eugénia Macedo graduated in Chemical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) in 1978 and joined the Department of Chemical Engineering of FEUP as Teaching Assistant. In 1980 she started her post-graduate studies in the Department of Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark. In 1984, he obtained her Ph.D. degree, at FEUP, in the area of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics. Since then, she pursued her teaching and research career at FEUP. In July 1999, she obtained the “Agregação” in Chemical Engineering, also at FEUP. She is Portuguese Delegate at the Working Party on Thermodynamics and Transport Properties of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering, since its creation in 2007, and she is the Chair of the International Steering Committee of the conferences European Symposium on Applied Thermodynamics since June 2011.