Dr. Verônica Calado is a full professor (for promotion) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She worked for two years at the Center of Composite Materials at the University of Delaware (from 1994 to 1996) and for a year at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2003. Currently, she serves as a referee for journals, such as Composite Science and Technology, Carbon, Polymer Composites, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, International Journal of Engineering Science, Food Chemistry, and Food Research International, among others. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Composites Science and Technology and Advances in Materials Science and Engineering. She works with composite materials, applied statistics, design of experiments, and statistical process control.