Mariana Banea received her PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (Portugal) in 2011. Her research mainly covers adhesive bonding and composite materials. M.D. Banea has published approximately 130 papers in journals (ISI Web of Knowledge) and more than 180 papers in proceedings of international conferences. Her papers have been cited 5892 times and correspond to an h-index of 42 (SCOPUS, 01/11/2023). She is a reviewer of 46 ISI journals and a member of the editorial board of the following journals: Journal of Renewable Materials and International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives. She has been awarded the following prizes: 1. 2010 SAGE Best Paper Award by the Editor and Editorial Board of the Journal of Materials: Design and Applications for the paper “Banea, M.D. and L.F.M. da Silva, The effect of temperature on the mechanical properties of adhesives for the automotive industry”. 2. Donald Julius Groen Prize for 2010 by Structural Technology and Materials Group Prizes and Awards of Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK for the paper “Banea, M.D. and L.F.M. da Silva, The effect of temperature on the mechanical properties of adhesives for the automotive industry”. 3. Fundação Eng. António de Almeida Prize for 2011 best PhD thesis by Fundação Eng. António de Almeida.