Denise Mafra is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Nutrition and in the Postgraduate Programs in Medical Sciences and Postgraduate Program in Nutrition Sciences at the Fluminense Federal University-UFF, and the Postgraduate Program in Biological Sciences, Physiology at the UFRJ. She holds a degree in Nutrition from the Federal University of Santa Catarina-UFSC (1997), a Master’s degree (1999), and a PhD (2001) in Food Sciences from the University of São Paulo-USP, and completed her Post-Doc at the Department du Nephrologie—Hôpital E. Herriot, Lyon, France (2007–2008—CAPES), at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (2017—CNPq), and the University of Glasgow (Scotland) (2021–2022—CNPq). She has experience in Nutrition and Nephrology, working mainly on the following topics: oxidative stress, inflammation (evaluating nuclear transcription factors—Bach1, Nrf2, NLRP3, and NF-kB), gut microbiota, and Food as Medicine in patients with Chronic Kidney Disease. She has coordinated the Renal Nutrition Outpatient Clinic of the Faculty of Nutrition—UFF since 2009. She is currently a scientist with a FAPERJ scholarship and PQ at the CNPq. She coordinated the CAPES–Cofecub Project (French Committee for the Evaluation of University and Scientific Cooperation with Brazil) in Brazil between 2012 and 2015 with Prof. Denis Fouque. She was awarded again in the CAPES–Cofecub 2019–2024.