Maria Carolina Capellini graduated with a Master's and Ph.D. in Food Engineering from the Faculdade de Zootecnia e Engenharia de Alimentos of Universidade de São Paulo (FZEA/USP). In 2017 Maria Carolina Capellini concluded her Ph.D. with a thesis entitled “Technical Feasibility of the Use of Alcoholic Solvents in Vegetable Oils Extraction: Physical-Chemical Characterization of Oil, Protein Fraction Functionalities and Solvent Recovery”, under the supervision of Professor Christianne Elisabete da Costa Rodrigues. Since 2018 she has been working as a researcher at the Laboratório de Engenharia de Separações (LES, FZEA/USP) on the Project “Effects of soybean pre-treatment on the performance of the alcoholic extraction process: yield, functionalities of the protein fraction and volatile fraction characterization”, with funding from Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP). This same funding agency provided Maria Carolina with a research scholarship from August to October 2022 at LSRE-LCM, FEUP, with the Project “Volatile profile of industrially pre-treated soybeans defatted with ethanol", under the supervision of Professor Alírio Rodrigues and the collaboration of Isabel Martins. Maria Carolina has published 15 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and has several oral and poster communications at national and international conferences.