Prof. Adriana S. Franca is a Full Professor at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. She obtained her B.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering at UFMG in 1988. She obtained an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at UFMG (1991) and a PhD in Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Purdue University, USA (1995). She completed a postdoctoral work in Mechanical Engineering at UFMG (1996) and also worked as fellow researcher at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA (2009). She became a faculty member of UFMG in 1996 (Chemical Engineering Department) and lately transferred to the Mechanical Engineering Department (2009), being a member of the Food Science Department (graduate school only) since 2000. Adriana Franca has published over 115 papers and 27 book chapters and is considered among the top-level Brazilian Researchers (level 1) according to the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology Agency (CNPq).