Silvia Santos Pedrosa received her BSc in Pharmaceutical sciences (2006) and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Universidade do Minho in 2016. She obtained a post-graduate degree in Animal Laboratory Science – FELASA C, from FMUP in July, 2016 (DGAV authorization for conception and execution of projects since January, 2017). Currently, she is a researcher at Universidade Católica do Porto and Amyris, Inc., working on a joint project involved in the development of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, functional foods, and innovative animal feeding products and concepts from residual products from sugarcane processing. She is the manager of the Hallmark of Ageing Platform and a member of the skin biome platform. She has an h-index of 12 and more than 400 citations (May 2023).