A. Marques is a Physiotherapist, Full Professor at the School of Health Sciences, Researcher at the Institute of Biomedicine, University of Aveiro (UA), and Coordinator of the Lab3R-Respiratory Research and Rehabilitation Laboratory, at UA. Her research is person-centred and focus on understanding how respiratory diseases affect people’s life and in developing personalised non-pharmacological interventions (pulmonary rehabilitation, physical activity) based on comprehensive assessments of people with chronic respiratory diseases and their loved ones, to achieve their maximum level of independence and functioning in the community with low resources.