Isabel M. D. Martins graduated in Chemical Engineering in 2006, from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP). She joined the Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM in 2006 where she was a member of the research team. Her research focused on the encapsulation of essential oils for textile and cosmetic applications. In 2012, and also at FEUP, she obtained her Ph.D on Microencapsulation of Thyme Oil by Coacervation: Production, Characterization and Release Evaluation, followed by a Post-Doctoral scholarship until 2014. From 2014 to 2018, she worked at Devan Micropolis, SA as a strategic R&D scientist, where she was responsible for the synthesis and characterization of new formulations for textiles applications with health and wellness benefits(http://devan.net/health-wellness/; http://devan.net/performance/), and have been involved in many internal projects as well as projects financed by Portuguese and Belgian entities. In 2019, she returned to LSRE-LCMwith an interest in the research and development of natural ingredients with high-added value for different industrial applications. In total, she has published 20 papers in international peer- reviewed and high-quality journals (Q1), mostly as first and/or corresponding author (h-index of 11, Scopus, April 2023), with more than 860 citations. She has also supervised 2 PhD students, 4 PosDoc researchers, 7 Master students and participated in various research projects