Liliana Rego finished her integrated master¿s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Coimbra in 2009. She has more than 10 years of experience in the cosmetic industry, both in national and international companies, establishing collaborations with a high number of manufacturers of raw materials and cosmetic products in the European market. . During 2012/2013, she specialized with the master¿s degree in Evidence based medicine at the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Porto. Followed by the Post-graduation in Cosmetology at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Lisboa. In 2015, she was invited to cooperate with an international group of evidence based medicine (www.medicalwizdom.tech) resulting in a joint work presented at the ISPOR 18th Annual European Congress, Milan, Italy, Nov, 2015 entitled "Does use of antipsychotics increase the risk of death: a systematic review and metanalysis of observational studies"(https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2015.09.954). In September 2022 she enroled in the PhD program at the Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Technology (FFUP),being granted a Research Fellow within the scope of the project 47239- "Cork2Cosmetic - Valorisation of by-products from the cork industry to develop cosmetic products" (NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-047239). This work resulted in 2 oral presentations in national congresses and in the publication of the article "Quercus suber bark as a sustainable source of value-added compounds: experimental studies with cork by-products" in Pharmaceuticals (Q1).