I hold bachelor's and master’s degrees in chemical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança. Institution, where I dedicated myself for 6 years, one of which was spent entirely in a laboratory where I acquired various knowledge and skills with particular emphasis on the practical laboratory work component. I started my academic career with a technical course (CET) of Chemical and Biological Analysis, where I attended a 5-month internship in a quality control company and implementation of HACCP Systems. The skills acquired in the internship have been deepened and further developed in particular during the research for my MSc Thesis. Under the master’s degree, my dissertation focused on the study of the "Valorization of Polyphenols Contained in Wine and Olive Residues using Molecularly Printed Adsorbents (MIPs)", where I was able to gain knowledge about the extraction of phenolic compounds, chromatographic analysis, mainly using a DAD detector, but also some insights in compounds’ identification by chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. At the moment, I have a research grant (BI) under the project "BacchusTech - Integrated Approach for the Valorization of Winemaking Residues (POCI-01-0247-FEDER-069583)", where I acquired several knowledge in chemical characterization and bioactive properties from plant matrices and application the extracts in the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. I have one published research paper in a scientific journal of the Web of Science, Cosmetics, entitled " Chemical Characterization and Bioactive Properties of Wine Lees and Diatomaceous Earth towards the Valorization of Underexploited Residues as Potential Cosmeceuticals".