Teresa Brandão graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto in 1990. She completed the curricular part of her Masters in Food Science and Technology at ESB-UCP in 1992. She obtained a Ph.D. in Biotechnology, with specialization in Food Science and Engineering, at ESB-UCP in 2004. During her Ph.D. program, she completed post-graduate courses in data analysis and experimental design at the University of California, Davis, USA. Her research interests focus on food thermal and mild non-thermal processes, including quality and safety characteristics, and the exploitation of bioactive and nutritive compounds from the waste parts of fruits, seeking the development of new strategies for adding value to fruit waste. Currently, she is a researcher at CBQF. From 1991 to present day, she has been lecturing as an invited Assistant Professor at ESB-UCP in a wide range of disciplines in the engineering domain: biostatistics, physics, thermodynamics, and mathematical analysis are her current main commitments.