In 2014, Victória Piazzalunga enrolled in the Pharmacy-Biochemistry Course at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of São Paulo – Brazil (FCF-USP). From 2016 to 2018, she worked as a scientific initiation researcher at the Biomedical Sciences Institute of the University of São Paulo (ICB-USP) – Brazil, on a project involving proteomic and lipidomic profiling of mice with cerebral malaria. This research experience allowed her to develop skills in conducting in vivo experiments, lipidomic and proteomic analyses. She also worked with DESI-MS (desorption electrospray ionization coupled to mass spectrometry), enabling the imaging of tissue samples based on their lipid composition using mass spectrometry. As a result of this work, she was invited to present her findings at the 2017 edition of the BioMalPar Conference at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg – Germany, and at the 26th Symposium of Undergraduate Research (SIICUSP) at ICB-USP in 2018. After graduation, she worked in the pharmaceutical industry for three years (from 2018 to 2021) in the Regulatory Affairs field, where she was directly involved in the assessment of technical documents for the registration of new drugs. During this period, she completed a postgraduate course in Agile Project Management (from 2020 to 2021) at Mackenzie Presbyterian University in São Paulo – Brazil. In the second semester of 2021, she was admitted to the doctoral program at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto (FFUP) in Portugal, a position she currently holds.