Vanessa Vieira graduated in Clinical Analysis and Public Health in 2012, at Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB). In 2014, she finished the master degree in Pharmacy and Chemistry of Natural Products at IPB and University of Salamanca. More recently, in 2019, she obtained the Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering by the University of Aveiro with the thesis entitled “Using alternative solvents for the extraction of bioactive compounds from Juglans regia L.”. Since December of 2019, she works at Deifil Technology Lda. as a strategic R&D scientist under the project “Valor Natural - Valorização de recursos naturais através da extração de ingredientes de elevado valor acrescentado para aplicações na indústria alimentar” in colaboration with FEUP, joining the LSRE-LCM team under the supervision of Professor Madalena Dias and Professor Alírio Rodrigues.