Alexandra Teodósio is an associate professor with aggregation in the University of Algarve (UAlg), Portugal, where since 2017 is the vice-rector for Research and Internationalization, and one of the coordinators of the research group Ecology and Restoration of Riverine, Estuarine and Coastal habitats (Ecoreach) from the Marine Sciences Centre (CCMAR) since 2001. Alexandra has been developing research in marine ecology at the CCMAR, and her major research interests include feeding ecology from jellies to sea turtles in coastal ecosystems and the effects of global changes, namely, fisheries impacts, species invasions, jellyfish blooms, ocean acidification and plasticization.