Fábio Bernardo is graduated in Environmental Engineering (Integrated Master in Environmental Engineering - MIEA), by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) since 2016. He carried out his master's thesis at Águas do Porto E.M., evaluating the eco-efficiency of the urban water cycle management system, leading to a more efficient and economic business, to achieve sustainable development. In 2017, he completed the Master in Occupational Safety and Hygiene Engineering (MESHO), also at FEUP, where he acquired new knowledge in the areas of ergonomics, psychosociology, occupational hygiene and safety. His dissertation consisted of the evaluation of muscle fatigue in the manual handling of loads, through motion analysis and accelerometers. In 2017 he also joined the Laboratory of Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy (LEPABE), where he was a research fellow, in the SaltQuanti project. This was a collaboration between the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), the Faculty of Nutrition and Food Science of the University of Porto (FCNAUP) and EVOLEO Technologies (a Portuguese SME investing in skills related to the design of critical and highly complex electronic systems). In 2022, he completed the Doctoral Program in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PDEQB). His research was mainly focused on the development, optimization (e.g. using design of experiments) and validation of analytical methods for the detection of emerging organic contaminants (e.g. volatile methylsiloxanes) in trace levels in the environment. It also focused on the development of environmental risk assessment studies. Also in 2022, he started working as a postdoctoral researcher at ALiCE (Associate Laboratory for Innovation in Chemical Engineering), more specifically at the LSRE-LCM R&D unit, in the area of agricultural substrates. In 2023, he started as a Junior Researcher at the Associate Laboratory CICECO – Institute of Materials of Aveiro, at the University of Aveiro, in the textile fibers area, where he also has the privilege of working with CITEVE, CeNTI and Grupo Altri (more specifically Celbi – Celulose da Beira Industrial, S.A. and Caima S.A.). First author of 6 publications in international peer-reviewed journals (co-author of another 3), first author of 1 book chapter and first author of 8 oral presentations (co-author of another 6). First author of 5 poster presentations (another 5 as co-author) at international meetings/symposia.