Cavadas holds a PhD in Pharmacology from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra (2002). Since 2002, she is professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Coimbra and Group Leader of “Neuroendocrinology and Aging group” at Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra. Cláudia Cavadas is co-author of 80 international publications and was the principal investigator of several funded projects. She was the President of the Portuguese Society of Pharmacology (since 2016); and Vice-director of the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra (2011-2013). As a PhD student, Claudia Cavadas spent 3 years at the Division of Hypertension CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland.