Carina Costa graduated in Chemistry at the University of Aveiro in 2007. Two years later, she finished her Master in Analytical Chemistry at the same university. In 2010, she earned a research fellowship at FEUP in LA LSRE-LCM to work on the Iberomare project, focused on the valorization of marine resources and wastes. In 2013, she started a doctoral grant funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) and started her Ph.D. studies in Chemical and Biological Engineering at FEUP on “Vanillin and syringaldehyde from side streams of pulp and paper industries and biorefineries”. In 2017, she concluded her Ph.D. and after that, she worked as a Post-doc Researcher in the improvement of an integrated process for lignin valorization through added-value chemicals production, under the supervision of Professor Alírio Rodrigues. She has been involved in 2 national and 1 European R&D projects and has several collaborations with national and international industrial partners. She co-authored several publications, communications in national and international conference proceedings, and 1 book on added-value products from lignocellulosic biorefineries. She is also an invited reviewer for several international journals and additionally a guest editor of a special issue. Currently, Carina Costa is a Junior Researcher at LSRE-LCM, working on lignin conversion into bio-based chemicals and materials study.