Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedicine, Biochemistry Unit, Faculty of Medicine, and Senior Researcher Instituto de Inovação e Investigação em Saúde, Portugal.

Maria João Martins is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedicine, Biochemistry Unit, from the Faculty of Medicine, and Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Inovação e Investigação em Saúde (i3S). Both institutions integrate the University of Porto (Portugal).

Her research interests lie in the broad areas of Biochemistry, Metabolism and Nutrition. In particular, her most recent research interests include the study of metabolic dysfunction amelioration by mineral water consumption.