Vera Geraldes, PhD in Medical Physiology, is an Assistant Professor in Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon and post-doctoral researcher in Cardiovascular Autonomic Function lab. She is author of several full papers with peer-review and received two international prizes: in 2011 (Federation of European Physiological Societies) and in 2012 (Portuguese Society of Hypertension) for her work on hypertension and central sympathetic areas. She has a particular research interest in the autonomic cardiovascular control and other mechanisms of blood pressure control, central cardio respiratory interaction and biological signal processing.​