Susana Frases is a highly accomplished scientist with a strong background in biological sciences and microbiology. She completed her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences at the Universidad de Alicante and earned her Ph.D. in Microbiology from the Universidad Miguel Hernandez. Following her doctoral studies, she conducted postdoctoral research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her professional career includes work as a researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Metrologia Normalização e Qualidade Industrial (INMETRO-RJ). Currently, she is an associate professor at the Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, where she leads the Laboratory of Fungal Biophysics. She has also served as the coordinator for the Postgraduate Program in Biological Sciences (Biophysics), which received a top rating from CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel foundation within the Ministry of Education in Brazil) . Susana Frases specializes in microbiology, particularly mycology, and has published over 130 high-quality papers with a multidisciplinary emphasis spanning biophysics, biology, and microbiology. She is actively involved in promoting women in science as a member of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World. She has been recognized as a “Cientista do Nosso Estado” by FAPERJ (Research Support Foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and holds a productivity scholarship from CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Brazil).