Liana C Silva is an Assistant Professor with Habilitation at Faculty of Pharmacy from the University of Lisbon (UL). She graduated in Biochemistry in 2001 at the Faculty of Sciences, UL, Portugal, and obtained her PhD degree in Chemistry (Molecular Biophysics) in 2006 at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST-UL). She developed her postdoctoral project at the interface between molecular biophysics and biochemistry as a research fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel and at the IST (2007-2009). In 2009, she was awarded a Ciência 2008 research position, followed by an FCT Investigator research position (2014) to set her research team focused on Molecular & Cellular Biophysics at the Faculty of Pharmacy, UL. LC Silva has an interdisciplinary background in biochemistry and cell biology, quantitative photophysics and molecular biophysics. Her research is multidisciplinary and bridges membrane biophysics and cell biology. She is interested in understanding the role of membrane biophysical properties in cell function and pathology. Her research is focused on membrane lipids and their interplay in biological membranes, aiming at evaluating their role in membrane organization and function, and to provide the molecular tools to develop improved therapeutics.