Prof. Dr. Andrea Zille graduated with a degree in Environmental Science with an Environmental Biochemistry specialization from the University of Venice (Italy) in 2000. In 2005, he completed a PhD degree in Textile Engineering and Textile Chemistry at the University of Minho (UMinho), Portugal. Between 2006 and 2011, he had two postdoctoral periods, at the University of Minho and the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMC), the University of Porto. In January 2012, he was hired by the University of Minho as a full researcher. He led the investigation line "Biotechnology and nanotechnology applied to materials" at the Centre for Textile Science and Technology (2C2T). From September 2022, he has held the position of Associate Professor at the Textile Engineering Department of the University of Minho. In 2016, he was invited to be a professor of the Masters in Textile Engineering at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande de Norte in Brazil. In 2018-19, he was the lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories for the textile greenhouse fluorinated gas emissions chapter. In 2021 and 2022, he was listed in the World's Top 2% Scientists list promoted by the University of Stanford (USA) and Elsevier Editorial Group. Since November 2022, he has been the Director of 2C2T at the University of Minho.