Sílvia Carvalho obtained her degree in chemical engineering in 2001 from Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal, and her Ph.D. in chemistry from Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal in 2007. For several years she worked in supramolecular chemistry, mainly in the molecular recognition field in different research groups at the University of Aveiro and Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. Currently, she is a researcher on a project at the University of Lisbon for developing porous materials for the controlled delivery of nitric oxide and hydrogen sulphide for therapeutic applications.