Diana Machado holds a degree in Biochemistry from the University of Minho (2019) and a Master's degree in Molecular Genetics, at the School of Science - University of Minho, with a final grade of 18 (out of 20) on the thesis project. After this last academic year, Diana was a foreign researcher at the Faculty of Pharmacy (Unversity of Navarra, Spain). The main focus of her investigation was the comet assay in combination with different enzymes to measure the global methylation of DNA. This work had financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation - project PID2020-115348RB-I00. Diana was also a researcher at the Centre of Biological Engineering (CEB, University of Minho), focusing her interest on two different projects: (1) Biotechnological transformation processes, processing of waste and by-products to supply new materials, (2) Peptide cloning in expression vectors together with fusion partners and expression of the fusion proteins in the yeast Pichia pastoris. Diana submited 1 research article as the first author and presented several conference posters at national and international scientific congresses and an oral communication at national meeting. Diana is attending the Systems Biology curricular unit (Master in Bioinformatics).