Luana Beatriz Dos Santos Nascimento holds a Master’s degree (2014) and a Ph.D. (2018) in Plant Biotechnology and Bioprocesses at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She completed an internship at the Helmholtz Zentrum München (Germany). She also worked as a postdocotral fellow in the Department of Agri-Food Production and Environmental Sciences (DAGRI) at the University of Florence (Italy). Currently, she is a Visiting Professor of Plant Biotechnology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Her research interests and expertise include plant sciences and natural products, process optimization, extraction and analysis, biochemical and morphophysiological analysis, etc.