Catarina Dias has completed her degree in Chemistry in June of 2020 at the Faculdade de Ciências Universidade do Porto (FCUP) and her MSc degree in Chemistry in November of 2022 at the FCUP. Currently, she is the first year of the Doctoral Degree Program in Chemistry at the FCUP, being a researcher of CIQUP – Centro de Investigação em Química da Universidade do Porto and REQUIMTE - Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde. Catarina Dias has been gathering expertise in the areas of Food Quality and Safety, being currently pursuing increasing knowledge in food allergen analysis and food allergy diagnosis. In this topic, she has authored the scientific paper “Electrochemical immunosensor for point-of-care detection of soybean Gly m Ti allergen in foods”, published in Analytica Chimica Acta (IF 6.911, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2023.125284), from her MSc experimental work. She has also co-authored another publication entitled “Plasmonic genosensor for detecting hazelnut Cor a 14 encoding gene for food allergen monitoring” published in the Analytica Chimica Ata Journal (IF 6.911, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aca.2023.341168) in the same topic. Her background also includes working in the topic of the exploitation of food byproducts to produce energy, thus she has co-authored the scientific paper “Chitins from Seafood Waste as Sustainable Porous Carbon Precursors for the Development of Eco-Friendly Supercapacitors” published in the Open Access MDPI Materials Journal (IF 3.748, https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16062332). She has also great proactivity and organizational skills, being a member of the organizing committee of 6 events. She was also an associated member of NEQUP - Núcleo de Estudantes de Química da Universidade do Porto and she has participated as member and research fellow of 3 projects (AlleRiskAssess, GreenShoes, HYPOALLERGEN).