Prof. Dr. Adriano Ensinas graduated from the State University of Campinas in 2001 and obtained his master’s and doctorate from the same institution. He is currently an associate professor at the School of Engineering of the Federal University of Lavras. Previously, he was an adjunct professor at the Federal University of ABC between 2009 and 2016. He carried out research activities at the University of Zaragoza in Spain as a doctoral scholar abroad under the PDEE-CAPES program (2005–2006). He was a collaborating researcher at the School of Chemical Engineering at UNICAMP (2008–2012), and since 2012 he has also been a collaborating researcher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland), where he develops projects related to computational system modeling, energy optimization methods for processes, and the thermoeconomic and environmental analysis of biorefineries. His current research interests include biofuels, biomass conversion, process integration, and the modeling and design of biorefineries.