Sara Souto Miranda is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Physiotherapy of the Polytechnic University of Setúbal, a research member of the Comprehensive Health Research Centre (CHRC) at the Nova Medical School in Lisbon, and a member of the General Council of the Portuguese Order of Physiotherapists. She finished her double PhD in 2023 at Maastricht University and University of Aveiro. Her main interests are related to pulmonary rehabilitation, COPD, and outcome measurement, and she has been involved in several funded research projects. She is a selected member of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Clinical Practice Guidelines Methodology Network, has published >25 research articles in international peer reviewed journals, and has been distinguished by the European Lung Foundation, ERS, Direção Geral de Ensino Superior, SPP and by CIRO+ with research awards, travel grants and fellowships.