Marília Torrado (MT) is a Bioengineer working in Neurosciences since 2015, with experience in neurotoxins and nanobiomaterials applied to neurological disorders. Her MSc degree in Bioengineering with specialization in the field of Molecular Biotechnology was concluded in 2016, at the University of Porto, Portugal. As an undergraduate student, MT enrolled in several research projects. In 2012, she collaborated in a research project at FEUP (U. Porto) in which she helped in the development of a photocatalytic paint with photo-biocidal and self-cleaning properties. Later, in 2013, she developed a project in the INMLCF, I.P. (Porto) to validate a method for ethanol analysis in blood. In 2015, MT joined the Department of Biomedicine at FMUP (U. Porto), where she developed her master thesis. Her work was focused on studying the mechanisms involved in the neurospecificity of botulinum toxins, its targets and the possible influences of these toxins in central mechanisms, using different in-vitro and in-vivo models. Currently, MT is a PhD student at the nanoBiomaterials for Targeted Therapies group at i3S (U. Porto), where she is working since 2017 on the development of neuroprotective therapies to be applied in the context of stroke, using nanobiomaterials as drug delivery systems. With expertise in biomaterials, nanoparticles, gene therapy, neurotoxins, as well as in CNS in-vitro and in-vivo models, MT has also been contributing to parallel projects in the group and with external collaborations. Also, she has experience in supervising, is co-author of 6 peer-reviewed papers and 2 abstracts published in international journals, and has several communications (14 national and 6 international).