Prof. Dr. Ana L. S. Oliveira is a senior researcher in the Alchemy Project (a collaborative project between Amyris Inc. and Biotechnology School of the Portuguese Catholic University (ESB-UCP)) at UCP. She is involved in the economic valorization of coproducts/residues from Amyris fermentative processes, aiming at the development of new ingredients for food, cosmetic, and materials applications. Ana holds a degree in applied biology, awarded in 2007, and a master’s degree in biotechnology and bio-entrepreneurship in aromatic and medicinal plants, awarded in 2010, both from the Biology Department of the University of Minho, Braga. She completed her PhD in 2015 at the Portuguese Catholic University in the area of food science and engineering. Her research interests include plant biology, genetic engineering and plant transformation, organic chemistry, food biotechnology, and the extraction and quantification of bioactive compounds. She is an author/coauthor of sixty international scientific articles and five book chapters on these topics, and she has (co)authored two patents. Ana has participated in more than 30 international and national scientific meetings with oral or poster presentations. She has co-supervised one master’s student and one bachelor’s student at ESB-UCP.