Beatriz Agostinho completed her master’s degree in Chemical Engineering (2019) from the University of Coimbra, specializing in Process, Environment and Energy. Her dissertation on ‘Supercritical fluid drying of natural-based aerogels for biomedical applications’ (September 2019),  was inserted in the project: “Green method to prepare sterilized biopolymers-based aerogel” – STERILAEROGEL, in which she continued contributing after her master’s degree, from which resulted in a paper currently in preparation for publishing. During her studies, she completed two summer internships, one in ‘Innovnavo – Materiais Avançados, S.A.’ (2017) and the other one in the Department of Chemical Engineering of University of Coimbra (2018). From her further collaboration in this last internship (2018 – 2019) originated the paper ‘Impact of the pinewood nematode on naturally-emitted volatiles and scCO2 extracts from Pinus pinaster branches: a comparison with P. pinea’ which she’s a co-author. She is currently a research fellow at CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials, University of Aveiro where she works on the design of new polymers and their (bio)degradation study.