Miguel Castro (MC) has a bachelor's degree in Genetics and Biotechnology and a master's degree in Food Engineering, both from the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Portugal). In 2021, for bachelor's, he participated in the identification of lung parasites from cervids within the project “Wasting Prion Disease Risk”, where the first molecular identification of Dictyocaulus capreolus in Portugal was done. These results were presented in Poster format at 1 International Conference and originated his first PUBLICATION as 2nd author in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. From 2022 to 2023 he did research on Food Safety in Restaurants, performing microbiological analyses of samples taken from equipment, surfaces, utensils, hands and drains. The alarming results of this study originated an ORAL PRESENTATION that he gave at a microbiology congress and Posters presentations in 3 additional Conferences and originated 2 PUBLICATIONS as 1st AUTHOR in peer-reviewed international scientific journals: 1 proceeding paper (https://doi.org/10.3390/ECM2023-16413) and 1 full Paper accepted for publication at Microorganisms. Currently, he joined the NUTRIMU- Fish Nutrition and Welfare Group of CIIMAR-The Interdisciplinary Center of Marine and Environmental Research (Portugal), to participate, in a Horizon 2020 project called “NEOGIANT - The power of grape extracts: antimicrobial and antioxidant properties to prevent the use of antibiotics in farmed animals” (H2020-LC-GD-2020/ 101036768 - NeoGiANT).