Alcina M.M.B. Morais currently holds an appointment as President of the Pedagogical Council of UCP-ESB. At present, she has been an Associate Professor at the UCP-ESB, since 2017, and she is a member of CBQF, since its foundation. She was the Coordinator of the M.Sc. course in Food Engineering of the College of Biotechnology, from 2006 to 2021. From 1999 to 2001, she held an appointment as Associate Sub-Director of the Extension of the College of Biotechnology in Caldas da Raínha (UCP-EESBCR). For 20 years now, she has been responsible for and professor of Fruits & Vegetables to the european M.Sc. of Food Science, Technology and Nutrition (SEFOTECH.NUT I and II) and to the european M.Sc. of Food Science, Technology and Business (BiFTec), which preceded BiFTec-FOOD4S. She is actually participating in FIND4S project with Indonesia. She is a co-author of more than 90 papers in refereed international journals and chapters in books, which have received to date more than 4500 citations listed by the ISI® Web of knowledge and Elsevier SCOPUS®, with a h-index of 31. She carries out research in the area of Food Science, Engineering, and Technology, focused mainly on Fruit and Vegetables. Her research work is on Post-Harvest Technology and Dehydration of Food Products.