Ariana Pintor graduated with a Masters in Environmental Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) in 2010. She joined LSRE-LCM for her Masters thesis in 2010 and afterwards worked as a project researcher in 2010 and as a PhD student from 2010 to 2014. She graduated with a PhD in Environmental Engineering from FEUP in December 2014 defending the thesis “Use of cork byproducts as sorbents for oil and grease removal from industrial wastewaters”. During 2015 and up to early 2016 she continued her research on cork granulates applications in environmental remediation and water and wastewater treatment. She has collaborated in the supervision of 3 Masters students in this research area between 2014 and 2016. Between 2016 and 2017 she took an internship as a trainee wind analyst at an environmental energy consultancy, MEGAJOULE S.A.. In March 2017 she returned to LSRE-LCM to pursue a postdoctoral fellowship and from then to 2019 has supervised another 3 Masters students and 2 project researchers. From June 2019 onwards she is working as a Junior Researcher under the topic “Advancing water and wastewater treatment using cork-based materials”.