**About the Editor**

## **Teresa V. Nogueira**

Teresa Nogueira received a Ph.D. in Physiology and Genetics of Microorganisms (Specialization in Genes, Genomes and Cells) from the University Paris-Sud in France in 2001. She is a researcher at INIAV, National Institute for Agricultural and Veterinary Research, in the Laboratory of Bacteriology and Mycology and at the Center for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Change of the University of Lisbon, in the team of Evolutionary Ecology of Microorganisms in Portugal.

She is interested in the evolutionary dynamics of antibiotic resistance and bacterial virulence in the human and animal gut, as well as in environmental microbiomes. She also aims to understand the antibiotic resistance and virulence profiles of microbial communities in the environment and in food-producing animals as part of the one health concept through large-scale genomic and metagenomic analyses of microbiomes.

Dr. Teresa Nogueira also teaches bioinformatics in Ph.D. programs and participates in outreach and science communication activities to promote scientific literacy in biological evolution. In this context, she is a member of the scientific associations EvoKE (Evolutionary Knowledge for Everyone) deeply involved in promoting public understanding and acceptance of evolution.
