Melissa is a sound designer and field recordist based in Portugal. She started her career in the Scandinavian film industry with renowned post production houses. Between sound design, and audio engineering, Melissa also worked as a sound mixer in Swedish films and TV series. Later on, she supervised and sound designed the film Ghabe, which earned her an award for Best Sound by European Cinematography Awards (ECA). Currently, her practice of sound design is mostly in audio dramas, a genre she came to love. Melissa was short-listed for the Best Field Recordist in the first Sound of the Year Awards for her recordings "Wolf Soundscapes". Currently she's the curator of earth.fm, a soundmap of professionally recorded nature sounds. She's also a composer, having completed her first commissioned piece Touch in 2020 and a new work on Gruenrekorder is to be released this year.