Erika S. Santos is an Assistant Professor at the Universidade de Lisboa–Instituto Superior de Agronomia (Portugal). With a background in Biology and a scientific master’s in Nature Conservation and Management, she has a European Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering (Universidade de Lisboa and Universidad de Santiago de Compostela from Spain), which was followed by a post-doctoral grant in Agricultural and Food Biotechnology at the CICECO–Aveiro Institute of Materials and Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. She has more than 15 years of academic experience in Portugal, Spain, Peru, and Bolivia. She has experience as a coordinator (PI) and a researcher in several R&D projects (co)-financed by European and Portuguese funds and international companies. Her main interests and experience cover soil quality assessment (physico-chemical and biological parameters), the recovery of degraded or contaminated areas with nature-based technologies, soil–plant interactions, plant ecophysiology, and the valorization of endogenous resources (e.g., plants used in recovered systems by their natural value-added compounds). Please check intended meaning retained.