Mariana Matias graduated in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2011 and received her Ph.D. at the University of Beira Interior in 2018. After a Community Pharmacy experience, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Research Institute for Medicines (iMed.ULisboa), integrated into the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon. At this moment, she plays a role as a Medical Writer in Phagecon and as an Invited Auxiliary Professor at the University of Beira Interior. Over the years, her main scientific interests have been Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmaco-toxicology, and Nanotechnology, and she has mainly worked on the design, chemical synthesis, biological evaluation, and nanoformulation of different heterocyclic compounds. She published several papers in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters and authored/co-authored several communications at scientific meetings (11 oral communications and 23 poster presentations). She has co-supervised several students and has participated on a jury of academic degrees in courses in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biochemistry, and Industrial Chemistry.