Fernanda Vitória Leimann graduated in 2006 in Chemical Engineering and obtained her Master Degree in 2008. She concluded her Ph.D in 2011 at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) with a sandwich period at the Max Plank Institute for Polymer Research-Main. Since 2011 she is a professor at the Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR-CM) in the Food Engineering Department and in the Post-Graduation Program of Food Technology (PPGTA). She is undergoing postdoctoral internship in the LSRE located at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança under the supervision of Professor Filomena Barreiro (from July, 2017 to June, 2018). She is working in the project “BioCap ‑ Encapsulation of biologically active compounds and development of food applications” (LSRE-LCM-UID/EQU/50020-POCI-01-0145-FEDER 006984), more specifically with natural food colorants.