Vania Batista is Medical Physicist at the Radiation Therapy Department at the Heidelberg University Hospital. She earned her Master degree in Physics Engineering at the Technical University of Lisbon (2008), a Master in Medical Physics at the Heidelberg University (2016), and her Doctoral degree in Medical physics also at the Medical Faculty of the Heidelberg University (2018). She worked as photon-radiotherapy and brachytherapy Medical Physicist in Portugal between 2009 and 2013, moving afterward to Germany, where she specialized in particle therapy and motion management techniques (2013-2016). Since 2016 she is working in photon-radiotherapy and keeps her main research interests in motion management and image-guided radiotherapy. She was co-chair of the ESTRO physics Workshop in 2019 about Surface-Guided Radiotherapy (SGRT) and is since then member of the European SGRT Working Group.