Dr. Italo Rennan Sousa Vieira is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Food Analysis Center (NAL-LADETEC) and Laboratory of Advanced Analysis in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (LAABBM) at the Chemistry Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IQ/UFRJ). He graduated in Chemistry from the State University of Maranhão (2015), received his Master's degree in Chemistry from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (2017), and obtained a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (2021). His research interests mainly include polymer chemistry, nanotechnology, materials chemistry, drug delivery systems, biomedical materials, and food science and technology.