Dr. Lisete Sousa Paiva works in the Food Sciences and Food Technology Laboratory of the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Engineering as a faculty member of Science and Technology at the University of the Azores. She has a PhD in Biology from the University of the Azores and is an integral member of the Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Research and Technology at the University of the Azores. From 2018 to 2022, she was a principal researcher at Plantações de Chá Gorreana as part of the TeaHealth project (ACORES-01-0247-FEDER-000014). She has been a junior researcher at University of the Azores since 2022 (doi.org/10.54499/CEECINST/00024/2021/CP2780/CT0001). Her areas of interest are within the chemistry of natural products, namely determination of secondary metabolites' bioactivities from macroalgae, plants and other functional foods consumed in the Azores islands, with a particular focus on therapeutical potential for human health.