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Mafalda Sarraguça graduated in 2000 in Industrial Chemistry in the Faculty of Sciences and Technology in the University of Coimbra. In 2004 she finished her master¿s degree in Chemistry, specialization in Chemical Control in the same Faculty. In 2010 Mafalda Sarraguça completed her PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences, specialization in Analytical Chemistry in the Faculty of Pharmacy in the University of Porto (FFUP). At present time Mafalda Sarraguça is a researcher in LAQV@REQUIMTE/FFUP. She is also an invited professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto. Her main research activity is focused on supramolecular chemistry to improve drugs properties such as solubility, palatability, mechanical properties using green chemistry approaches. She is proficient in several solid-state analytical methods, such as mid and near infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and differential scanning calorimetry. Another filed of expertise of Mafalda Sarraguça is the use of multivariate analysis to improve industrial processes focused on the pharmaceutical industry. Overall, she is the co-author of 44 peer-reviewed publications (more than 1200 citations and 18-h index) in international journals, 11 of them as correspondent author. She is also the co-author of 4 invited book-chapters. Mafalda Sarraguça participated in 7 scientific projects has researcher, 3 nationals and 4 internationals (one European). She was the co-PI of a FCT project (Honey2KILL). She was a member of several COST Actions.

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Clara Gomes is an Assistant Researcher at the Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde (LAQV) at NOVA FCT and manager of the Single Crystal X-ray Crystallography Service and X-ray facility at NOVA FCT. Her research is in the field of synthetic coordination/organometallic chemistry, where possible using green chemistry synthetic methods such as mechanochemistry, catalysis and supramolecular chemistry, in the synthesis of flexible metal-organic frameworks and cages for structure elucidation of key non-crystalline targets such as oils, liquids or amorphous solids, and for applications in hydrogen production from water splitting. Scopus citation metrics (ID 24343503400) show 89 cited articles (>1130 citations). She is a team member of the Horizon Europe project IMPACTIVE. She was PI/co-PI of a FCT project (PTDC/QUI-QIN/31585/2017) and core group member (gender balance coordinator and grant awarding coordinator) of COST Action CA18112 (MechSustInd). Currently she is involved in three other COST Actions: CA21101 (COSY), CA22107 (BEST-CSP) and CA22147 (EU4MOFs). She (co-)supervises/ed 3 post-doctoral research fellows, 2 PhD students, 5 Msc students and more than 10 bachelors.

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Professor Senka Vidovic is a Full Professor at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technology Novi Sad, Serbia, where she has completed her PhD exploring supercritical fluid extraction of bioactive compounds from mushrooms. She is an expert in green extraction technologies, especially the high pressure ones, and by-products and waste utilization. She has published more than 120 works which have been cited by more than 4000 documents. She is a former Vice-dean for Science at her institution, where now she is leading a research group XtractTeam. She was a Vice-Chair of COST Action GREENERING. She was a mentor of 10 doctoral thesis and more than 30 master and bachelors.

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Marina Cvjetko Bubalo is an Assistant Professor at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, Croatia. Her research interests focus on preparation, characterization, and implementation of deep eutectic solvents in food technology and biotechnology, with special emphasis on fine tuning of deep eutectic solvents’ composition for application in biocatalytic reactions, and stabilisation of target compounds (such as proteins and active pharmaceutical ingredients). MCB has so far >50 peer-reviewed publications (h-index 24, Web of Science), whereby five of them are highly cited papers in the top 1% of the academic field. In the period of 2021-2023 she has been listed in the top 2% scientists list of the world under the category of Biotechnology by a survey conducted by Stanford University.

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Vânia André is an assistant researcher at Centro de Química Estrutural, Institute of Molecular Sciences, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa and invited assistant professor at the same university. Her research is focused on applying Crystal Engineering and Supramolecular Chemistry towards improved crystal forms of active pharmaceutical ingredients. Currently, she is developing antibiotic coordination frameworks for enhanced properties and antibacterial activity. From the point of view of synthesis, Vânia is devoted to mechanochemistry since 2008. She published >100 papers in international journals.