I am Monica Nabil Gayed Ibrahim, junior researcher and food R&D engineer at EMÜ University in Estonia from September 2022 until the present time. I finished 2014 my bachelor’s degree in the speciality of dairy products hygiene and quality from the veterinary medicine faculty in Alexandria, Egypt. The same year, I started my work experience in the fermented dairy factories “EgyFood and Labanita” as a shift engineer in the production sector for one and a half years. In late 2015, started my research and R&D experience life by travelling to Yekaterinburg, Russia and began my master's studies. In 2017, I got my master’s degree with excellent grades from the Ural Federal University in the speciality of food biotechnology. The same year, I received a governmental scholarship to study for a PhD at the ITMO University in Saint-Petersburg, Russia in speciality technology of food from plant origin. I worked at the same university as a food engineer for valorizing food waste from plant origin. I got my PhD degree in December 2022 in the technology of functional plant-based beverage production. In 2020, I started to work on my second PhD at the Estonian University of Life Sciences in the Department of Food Science and Technology and ERA-chair for Food (By-) Products Valorisation Technologies. Currently, my work is directed to the optimization and valorization of oat and cereal-based dairy alternative beverages and their by-product for sustainable, healthy and nutritious food production.