Gabriela Barreto is a Chemical Engineer (BSc 2023, MSc 2025, University of Aveiro) with specialization in Chemical Processes and has gained experience in collaborative academic research, including participation in a funded project, contributing to multidisciplinary work in sustainable chemistry, catalysis, chemical engineering and exploring new materials. Her master’s thesis focused on the development and characterization of modified zeolites as heterogeneous catalysts for the acid-catalysed conversion of carbohydrate biomass-derived molecules into value-added products (e.g., levulinic acid and its esters), involving catalyst synthesis, physicochemical characterization of materials, and catalytic performance evaluation at laboratory scale. She has hands-on experience with analytical and characterisation techniques including gas chromatography (GC), powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), and attenuated total reflectance Fourier-transform infrared (ATR FT-IR) spectroscopy for studying reaction kinetics and the structural features of catalytic materials. Since October 2025, she has worked as a research fellow at CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials (Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro), as a member of a funded research project on catalysis for the chemical valorisation of biomass-derived substrates. Her responsibilities included experimental planning, data analysis and curation, writing draft, and team collaboration. She also engaged in mentoring MSc students within the research team. Gabriela is co-author of a peer-reviewed publication in the Journal of Molecular Structure (2026) on molybdenum-based hybrid catalysts and their structure-activity relationships in biobased olefin valorisation. She has contributed to science dissemination through poster presentations. She is proficient in English (B2 level).