**Education**: she obtained a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, in 2011. **Career**: she was awarded a post-doctoral fellow grant from the National Science Foundation FCT (University of Coimbra). Since 2019 she is an Assistant Researcher at CICECO of the University of Aveiro and maintains an invited position of Collaborator Researcher at the University of Coimbra. **Research interests**: sustainable furan polymers.