Marcela Cândido received a Chemical Engineering degree from Vale do Paraiba University in 2018. She is a PhD student at the Nanosensors Laboratory (IP&D/UNIVAP), with a scholarship from the São Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP (grant number 2019/26353-3). Her expertise is in the fields of nanoparticle synthesis, characterization and functionalization of nanoprobes, molecule modification, photosensitizers, as well as photodynamic and photothermic therapies in cell cultures.