Ana Filipa Duarte finished her PhD on Earth Resources at Instituto Superior Técnico, specialising in Seismic Oceanography. Also holds a bachelor's degree in Geological and Mining Engineering and a master's degree in Petroleum Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico. During her master's program, she had a strong interest in Geophysics and Geostatistics. In the last year of the degree, she enrolled in an internship at Heriot-Watt University, in the Lyell Research Centre, Edinburgh, where she developed the master's thesis in seismic reflection interpretation. That project had the purpose of interpreting the morphology and extent of an igneous intrusion from Early Cretaceous and its influence in the Falkland Plateau Basin. In 2020 she joined a project to analyse and bring knowledge about COVID-19 disease, at Instituto Superior Técnico, where she collaborated with the mapping of the infection risk for Portugal, and implemented an early warning system for anomalous values of COVID-19 incidence in the Metropolitan area of Lisbon, allowing policymakers to better act on contingency plans. Between 2021 and 2023, she was a researcher collaborator at +ATLANTIC (Collaborative Laboratory), where she established modelling and analysis of the ocean using seismic oceanography as a tool to increase the resolution of temperature and salinity models of the water column in the North Atlantic Ocean, integrating real data from multiple sources.