Giovanna Machado has been a senior researcher and is currently Director at the Centro de Tecnologias Estratégicas do Nordeste (CETENE), a research institute of the federal government of Brazil, where she is the leader of the Nano Materials Research Group (LANANO). She is a Collaborating Professor at the University of Caxias do Sul-UCS, at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco-UFPE and at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. She graduated in Chemistry from the Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul (1993), has a Master's in Materials Science from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (1996), and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (2002). She carried out a postdoctoral internship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT in the period of 2006 to 2007. She is a full member of the Pernambuco Academy of Sciences (APC), chair 27, and a member of several thematic advisory committees. She is on the editorial board as Editor-in-Chief of the journal 'Química Nova'. She has experience in Chemistry, focusing on Polymer Chemistry, acting on the following subjects: SAXS, XRD, electron microscopy, and nanoparticles. She also develops research on the following topics: nanotechnology applied to renewable energies, hydrogen production, solar cells, photodegradation of textile effluents, and, currently, nanotechnology applied to biomaterials.