Dr. Loic Hilliou completed a PhD in 1996 at the University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg (France). He gained experience in the rheology and structure of complex fluids during the PhD, a 2-year post-doctoral stay at FORTH-IESL (Greece, now part of the European Soft Matter Infrastructure) and a fellowship from the EU-TMR Network FMRX-CT97-012. He then undertook 3 years of industrial experience as a post-doctoral fellow at TOTALFINAELF and at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (consulting and technology transfer activities for BASF). In 2004 he settled in Portugal, joining the REQUIMTE Associate Laboratory, and secured national funding (FCT grant POCTI/EQU/58064/2004). In 2008, he was hired as Associate Researcher (Ciência 2007 program funded by FCT) to supervise the laboratory of rheology of the Institute of Polymers and Composites (IPC, I3N/MINHO Associate Laboratory) and develop the in-line monitoring of polymer processes. His research career continued in 2014 with the award of an FCT Investigator grant (IF/00606/2014). In 2022 he was awarded a CEECINST grant.