Dr. Tatiana Zhiltsova is an assistant researcher at TEMA (Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation), Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro. She obtained her PhD at the same university in computational simulation of heat and mass transport phenomena in non-Newtonian fluids at the microscale. Her postdoctoral work focused on mass transport in both reactive and non-reactive porous media. Currently, her research combines computational fluid mechanics with experimental approaches to polymer recycling, focusing on the performance of post-consumer and natural fibre polymer composites, the sustainable use of polymeric materials, and the optimisation of processing technologies.