Miguel Batista graduated in Biology and holds a MSc in Biotechnology (2017). He worked as a Research Fellow at the Nutraceuticals & Bioactives Process Technology Lab, from iBET, where he participated in the Oil4Health project, in collaboration with Sovena Portugal. In this work, he was focused on the utilization of combined by-products of the olive oil production process, on the intensification of a sustainable and viable industrial extraction, and on the fractionation and purification process. He was mainly involved in the extraction of bioactive compounds and in the development of aerogels through supercritical fluid technology. Currently, he is a PhD student of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and his main interest rely on the valorization of food industry by-products, through the extraction of biopolymers used for the development of novel 3D structures.