Tânia Sousa, M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering (IST) and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering (IST) and Life and Earth Sciences (Free University of Amsterdam), is an assistant professor in Environment and Energy at IST, the engineering school of the University of Lisbon. Tânia Sousa teaches or has taught courses such as Thermodynamics, Environmental Modelling, Applied Ecology, Microbian Cellular Factories, Energy and Environment and Energy Management. She has developed in collaboration two online Técnico MOOC courses, the debX and debX micro that are being used to support flipped classrooms in Applied Ecology and Microbian Cellular Factories and as stand-alone courses. She has supervised or is supervising 8 Ph.D. students and more than 40 master students. Tânia Sousa is a researcher of MARETEC – Marine, Environment and Technology Centre. Her main research areas are societal exergy accounting at the national and sectorial levels for the metabolism of societies and Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory for the metabolism of organisms. She has worked both in theoretical developments and in Sustainability relevant applications such as the study of past energy transitions, the estimation of energy and cattle-related greenhouse gas emissions, and the decoupling between metabolism and economic growth. Theoretical developments and applications are heavily based on Thermodynamics. She has published more than forty papers in international peer-reviewed journals and has edited a special number of Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B entitled 'Developments in dynamic energy budget theory and its applications'. She has organized in collaboration four international conferences.