Andreia Ribeiro graduated in Biomedical Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of Bragança in October 2014. For 8 months she participated in an Erasmus fellowship where she developed skills in the characterization and microencapsulation of natural extracts and later she worked as researcher in the field of Valorization of Natural Products. In 2021, she obtained the PhD degree in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) with thesis entitled Nanohydroxyapatite Pickering emulsions: from product development to functional ingredients in food applications under the supervision of Professors Madalena Dias, Filomena Barreiro and Isabel Ferreira. Since then, she has been working as a researcher at LSRE-LCM, FEUP, on the Project Valor Natural – Valorização de Recursos Naturais através da Extração de Ingredientes de Elevado Valor Acrescentado para Aplicações na Indústria Alimentar. Andreia has published 11 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and has several oral and poster communications in national and international conferences.