Joana Vilas Boas received her BSc and MSc degrees in Biological Engineering from the Biological Engineering Department at Minho University (Braga, Portugal). She did her research studies during her Master´s dissertation at Wetsus, European Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology (Leeuwarden, The Netherlands). She holds a doctoral degree since 2022 in Chemical and Biological Engineering by Faculty of Engineering of Porto University (FEUP, Porto, Portugal) entitled: “Microbial fuel cells for wastewater treatment and energy production”. She has 11 years of experience in bioelectrochemical systems mainly focused on microbial fuel cells research. Currently she is a postdoctoral research fellow at LSRE-LCM (Chemical Engineering Department, FEUP), in the project 2SMART - engineered Smart materials for Smart citizens (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000054). The current research focus is on “Components' development for bioelectrochemical water treatment systems”.