Raquel P. F. Guiné is presently a Coordinating Professor with Habilitation at the Food Industry Department and Coordinator of the Research Center for Natural Resources, Environment and Society, Polytechnic University of Viseu, Portugal. She has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Coimbra (2005) and a Teaching Habilitation in Food Science from the University of Algarve (2015). She won the First Prize in the National Contest sponsored by the CAP relative to a new food developed in 2013, and member of the team who won the prize CEI-IIT – Research, Innovation and Territory with a project about Family Agriculture in 2017. She was listed in 2021, 2022 and 2023 in the top 2% influential authors from the University of Stanford in two categories: author career and author single year. The major fields of her study include food engineering, food processing, food science and nutrition, dietary patterns and eating habits.