Joana Ferreira has a degree in Chemistry (2005), a Master’s degree in Organic Chemistry and Natural Products (2008) and a PhD in Chemistry (2014) from University of Aveiro. She is a member of CERNAS-Research Centre for Natural Resources, Environment and Society and of LEAF–Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food. During her research career she has contributed to the elaboration of 30 articles in international journals with scientific referees and participated in several conferences with oral or poster communications. Dr. Ferreira's main research areas focuses on food product nutritional and chemical characterization, food processing technologies, development of innovative food products from new sources of ingredients (algae, food processing industry wastes and by-products, insects), biorefinery and circular economy, improvement of technological and sensory properties of newly developed food, and analytical and organic chemistry (natural products synthesis, structural elucidation and characterization, green chemistry methodologies).