Cecilia Santos graduated in Chemistry from University of Coimbra in 2006 and obtained her double Ph.D. degree in Macromolecular Chemistry in 2012, from both University of Coimbra and University of Alcalá (UAH-Spain). Her Ph.D. work dedicated to multidisciplinary research in the thermodynamic and transport properties of drug release systems and her Ph.D. thesis was awarded by UAH the “Prémio Extraordinário de Doctorado”. She worked as postdoc researcher in Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB-Belgium) engaging in the field of materials science by studying the thermo and hydrodynamic instabilities in fluid systems and heat and mass transfer processes in free and porous media. She was involved in ESA DCMIX project, elaborating experiments on transport properties in ground and in microgravity conditions in the International Space Station. From 2014, as postdoc researcher in CQC, she re-engaged in research in diffusion in fluid systems with a postoctoral grant from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and started working in the thermodynamic properties of petrochemical models, with supercritical carbon dioxide and application to energy generation, in network with ULB. In 2018 she started coordinating a small research team as the principal investigator of KIDIMIX project, funded by FCT and COMPETE 2020, in the topic of Molecular and Thermal Diffusion for Model CO2 Mixtures Near the Critical Point.