F. Raquel Maia obtained her BSc and MSc degrees in Biology from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP) in 2007 and 2008, respectively. In 2010, she received the Best Poster Award at the “Trends in Nanotechnology” International Conference, 2010. In 2014, she obtained her PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering, which was approved with distinction from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. In 2015, she attended the Cell and Molecular Biology Bone Research Group, Department of Medicine, at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, under the supervision of Professor Jillian Cornish, with a scholarship awarded from Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds. In 2017, she was awarded an FCT Postdoc fellowship (ref: SFRH/BPD/117492/2016) envisioning to deepen the knowledge on cancer biology. Currently, she is a Junior Investigator with a contract under “Norma Transitória DL 57/2016-Lei 57/2017”. She is also a member of four FCT-funded projects and two European-funded projects. Notably, she was elected as a referee in 16 scientific international journals, and she is part of the Reviewer Board (RB) of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360).