Daniela Aparecida Chagas de Paula is a professor at the Federal University of Alfenas (UNIFAL-MG) at the Chemistry Institute. She received her PhD in Science (2013) from FCFRP-USP. She graduated in Pharmacology from Federal University of Ouro Preto (2007). She has experience in the following areas: metabolomics, phytochemistry, chemometrics, Parkinson's disease, and pharmacological evaluations. In 2013, she was received the Young Scientist award in recognition of an interesting and original research contribution to the field of metabolomics using chemometrics methods. Recently, she has been approved for research project funding (FAPEMIG and CNPq) as coordinator, and she has published book chapters, patents, and scientific articles. Additionally, she has supervised and collaborated on award-winning research work in her research group. She established national and international research collaborations, including the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (Germany) and the Natural Products Metabolomics Group at the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde (Scotland). She is a member of the Brazilian Chemical Society, the Advisory Board from the journal Fitoterapia (Elsevier), and the research group Metabolomics and investigation of biological activities of Natural Products – UNIFAL-MG.