Denise Crocce Romano Espinosa graduated in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of São Paulo (1995) and received a Master's degree and Doctorate in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of São Paulo in 1998 and 2002, respectively. She completed an 8-month research internship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) in 2001 and was a Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia (Canada) for a 12-month period (2015–2016). From 2009 to 2014, she was an Associate Professor at the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the USP Polytechnic School. She was the coordinator of the Graduate Program in Metallurgical Engineering at the Polytechnic School of USP (2012–2014) and an alternate coordinator of the Research Committee of the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering of EPUSP (2009–2012). She is currently an Associate Professor of the Chemical Engineering Department of EPUSP, a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Graduate Program in Chemical Engineering of EPUSP (2014–current), and Deputy Head of the Chemical Engineering Department of EPUSP (2018–current). She serves as a Technical Advisor for USP's Environmental Management Superintendency (2018–current) and is the representative of USP at the State Environmental Council (2018–current). Main research topics: recycling, waste treatment, hydrometallurgy, extractive metallurgy, and WEEE recycling.