Daniela Gomes is a PhD student at the Centre of Biological Engineering (CEB) at the University of Minho (UM), Portugal. She received her degree in Biochemistry and her MSc in Molecular Genetics from UM in 2017 and 2019, respectively. After that, she had a research grant to develop the work "Genetic optimization of Zymomonas mobilis to increase fructooligosaccharides yield and purity" in the project "FoSynBio - Synthetic biology approaches to design and construct microbial cell factories for the production of fructooligosaccharides" at the CEB-UM. Currently, she is working on the development of an engineered Escherichia coli strain to produce complex flavonoids. Her research interests are focused on the synthetic biology and metabolic engineering fields.