Nuno Filipe Azevedo is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto after carrying out studies at the University of Minho and the University of Southampton. His main research interests include exploring the potential of nucleic acid mimics for the characterization and modulation of multispecies biofilms. He has been invited to more than 40 oral presentations in national and international conferences and is regularly part of the scientific advisory committee of international conferences (e.g. Eurobiofilms 2024, XVth SPLC-CRS 2024). Recently, he was the main proposer of the funded ERA-CHAIR European Project e.Biofilm, a project that aims at the creation of a Group of Excellence in Engineered Biofilms.