Joana Azeredo is an Associate Professor with habilitation at the Department of Biological Engineering of the University of Minho and develops her research activity at the Centre of Biological Engineering, where she is a member of the direction board, leading the Biofilm Science and Technology research Group and the Bacteriophage Biotechnology Group.

Her current research focuses on interaction of bacteriophages with biofilms and development of bacteriophage based biotechnological applications for detection and control pathogens.

Joana Azeredo was graduated in 1994 as Biological Engineer at the University of Minho and obtained her PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering also at the University of Minho (1998).

She developed pioneer studies in collaboration of Ian Sutherland (Univ. Edinburgh) on the characterization of the interaction of bacteriophages with biofilms and demonstrated the efficacy of bacteriophages against biofilms.  She and  her team have isolated and sequenced several new bacteriophages giving an important contribution to phage taxonomy and have demonstrated in vivo and in vitro the efficacy of bacteriophages and derived enzymes in controlling several human pathogens.

She has supervised 16 PhD students and lead 2 European and 7 National and Regional projects. She regularly serves as international expert project reviewer for national and international funding agencies and as peer-reviewer for international scientific journals. She has extensive publishing and editorial experience, both as an author (+200 international peer reviewed papers), member of editorial boards and editor of thematic issues and books. Her work has received +6000 citations and her current h-index is 45 (Scopus, October 2019).