Maria Teresa Nogueira is a PhD student in Chemical Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). She has concluded her master's degree in 2020, at IST, about the "Synthesis of Bioplastic from agri-food waste". In 2022, she became a member of CERENA as a PhD student, and is working on "Total Plastic Recycling – Hydrocarbons and Beyond - Contributions for the Circular Economy”.