Rosa M. F. Baptista is a Junior Researcher at the CF-UM-UP, University of Minho (UM). She obtained an MSc (2005) and a PhD degree (2011) in chemistry from UM. She was a Postdoctoral researcher at CF-UM-UP (2012-2019). She collaborated on five national and international research projects. In the last 5 years, she has been focused on the synthesis of novel donor–acceptor molecules and dipeptides, their functionalization into biopolymer fibers using the electrospinning technique, and the evaluation of their non-linear optical and piezoelectric properties. She has supervised four MSc students and three researchers. She has published 49 scientific articles in peer-reviewed, international journals and conference proceedings, authored two book chapters and has one patent.