Dr. Elsa Batista holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Universidade Nova de Lisboa / Faculty of Sciences and Technology (FCT/UNL). She has been responsible for the Volume and Flow Laboratory of the Portuguese Institute for Quality (IPQ) since 2002, having joined the institute in 1999. Dr. Batista serves as the convenor of the Volume Subgroup of EURAMET Technical Committee for Flow and is the Portuguese representative to this committee. She is an active member of several international standardization committees, including ISO/TC 48, ISO/TC 28, ISO/TC 276, and ISO/TC 84, and currently chairs ISO/TC 48/SC 8. She is also a board member of both the Microfluidics Association and the SPMET Association. In 2023, she received the CEN–CENELEC Standards + Innovation Award in the Individual Researcher category. She is presently the coordinator of the EURAMET international project “MFMET – Establishing Metrology Standards in Microfluidic Devices II.