Rui César Silva has a background in chemical engineering from the University of Porto and in 2016 his PhD proposal attained magna cum laude approval from the University of Coimbra, under the theme "Solid-liquid suspension flow in pipes: modelling and experimental investigation" where the first Portuguese electrical tomography system was successfully constructed. He worked in a pharmaceutical CDMO, from 2016 until 2021, acting as technical scientific leader on several projects with topics ranging from particle engineering, hollow-fiber separations, chemical process modelling and data science. During his tenure at this company, he was one of fastest members to achieved seniority and lead projects to commercialization, through process performance qualification, in record time. He authored several works presented at scientific conferences and served as a tutor on both Master and PhD thesis on hollow-fiber crystallization and particle size reduction technologies. Presently, he works in Process Development and Scale-up at Amyris Portugal which is focused on sugarcane by-products enhancement and functionalization. Rui has co-authored several scientific papers in international peer-reviewed journals and oral communications in conference proceedings (orcid.org/0000-0001-5766-7859).