Manuela E. Pintado received her BSc in pharmacy from the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto (1991) and a Ph.D. in biotechnology from the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP) in 1999. She is an associate professor and director of CBQF at the State Associate Laboratory and associate director of the College of Biotechnology of UCP. She is the Biobased and Biomedical Products group leader and coordinates the Bioactives and Bioproducts Research Laboratory. She has established strong relationships within the industry, mainly in the food sector. Her main research interests include the development and characterization of bioactive and by-product valorization through bioprocesses and extraction processes, aiming to obtain high-added-value products to be applied to food and other industries. She has co-authored ca. 400 papers in international journals, is a creator of 20 patents, has been involved in the supervision/co-supervision of 34 concluded Ph.D. theses and has coordinated/co-coordinated ca. 90 externally funded projects.