Dr. Nádia Ribeiro is a Post-Doctoral researcher at ITQB – Nova University of Lisbon, developing her work at the Applied and Environmental Mycology laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Cristina Silva Pereira. Her work is developed under the scope of the Agriloop consortium, where she explores chemical methodologies to isolate plant polymers. The ultimate goals of her research are the development of novel bio-based materials and isolation of natural bioactive compounds.