Teresa B.V. Dinis holds a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering, particularly in Bioengineering field and a MSc degree in Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology. Since 2012, Teresa has joined to CICECO’s Process and Product Applied Thermodynamics (PATh) research group, where she developed her master thesis entitled “Concentration of human pollution tracers with ionic liquids”, in 2015, under the supervision of Dr. Mara G. Freire (Main Research Coordinator at CICECO ) and Prof. Dr. Valdemar I. Esteves (Assistant Professor at CESAM). Along with this work, the research on alternative solvents, such as ionic liquids, has fascinated her due to their high versatility to create new challenges and how to design improved, sustainable and biocompatible methods for biomolecules purification and its analysis. For those reasons, Teresa decided to further improve her research skills within the field of ionic liquids, in which she was granted, in 2017, with a PhD scholarship, by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), entitled “Development of ionic-liquid-based supported materials for the purification of Ribonucleic Acid (RNA)”, under the supervision of Dr. Mara G. Freire (Main Research Coordinator at CICECO ) and Prof. Dr. Fani Sousa (Auxiliary Professor at CICS-UBI). Her Doctor's specialty is mainly focused on the development of alternative and greener purification platforms for nucleic acids-based drugs, within biopharmaceuticals processing. Nowadays, Teresa's main motivation as scientist is the belief that each day she can contribute for improving people’s quality of life, always ensuring low environmental impact of her work.