Alexandra Teodósio is Vice-Rector for Internationalisation and Sustainable Development at the University of the Algarve (UAlg) and the European University of The Seas, SEA-EU: Erasmus+Partnerships for Excellence. She was Deputy Director at CCMAR. She coordinates the Consortium of Marine Sciences Schools that funds PhD scholarships for Portuguese-speaking countries' nationals (FCT-LP UNESCO). She is the deputy director of the CoLAB in Sustainable and Smart Aquaculture. She is a Full Professor of Marine Sciences (Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography 1996). She coordinates the Ecoreach research group - Ecology and Restoration of Riverine, Estuarine, and Coastal Habitats. She is responsible for the planktonic Time Series: Lower Guadiana Station South Iberian. She has taught at UAlg for the last 35 years, co-coordinated bachelor's, master's, and PhD programs with sabbaticals at the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM), Barcelona, in 2005/06, and at the University of Miami, in 2015/16. She has supervised several PhD candidates master’s students, and undergraduates. Her main interests lie in feeding ecology from jellies to sea turtles and the impacts of global change on marine biodiversity, such as warming, acidification, invasive species, jellification, and plastification of the seas, from tropical to temperate areas. Her research and education projects have focused on sustainable blue growth and citizen science to address global impacts on our only ocean.