Vania Rodrigues Leite-Silva is a professor of cosmetology at the Federal University of São Paulo in Brazil and holds an Honorary Senior Research Fellow position at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. She is also Board Chairman at ABC (Associação Brasileira de Cosmetologia) – the Brazilian Society of Cosmetology, and Committee Member 1 of the IFSCC (International Federation of Societies of Cosmetic Chemists). She has a doctorate in cosmetic science from the University of Sao Paulo and has done postdoctoral work at the University of Queensland, Australia. Also, she has more than 20 years of experience within the industry, with an emphasis on research and development of cosmetics, involving research, development, and validation of new methodologies and technologies for evaluation of cosmetic performance.