Maria Carvalho Dias is a  Research Programme Officer in the European Research Executive Agency in the service dealing with MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships. Maria is currently dealing with a big portfolio of H2020 and Horizon Europe projects mainly in the area of Life Sciences and is also responsible for Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation matters. Maria has been working with EU research framework programmes since 1989. Many of those years were outside the European Commission, dealing directly with researchers and advising applicants. Since 1997 Maria has joined the European Commission and worked in different programmes such as Social Sciences and Humanities (the first time ever funded under a research Framework programme), Research Infrastructures (security and physics), Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and MSCA. She has also worked in the Communication sector for some years.