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Ana C. Marques graduated in Materials Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa (IST-UL), Lisbon, Portugal, in 2000 and obtained her Ph.D. degree in Materials Sci. & Eng. from the same institution in 2005. She was a Post-Doc at the International Materials Institute for New Functionality in Glass of Lehigh University, USA, before joining the chemical company Dow Corning in Belgium, as an R&D Chemist, from 2007 to 2011. At Dow Corning, she was the leader of R&D projects, aiming at new chemical products development (e.g. halogen-free flame retardant additives) for large-scale production. This was followed by R&D Coordination roles at Ynvisible S.A. and Greenseal Research Ltd., for the development of electrochromic displays and greener components for polyurethane foams, respectively. In 2014, while holding a FCT Post-Doc grant, she started a Technology Platform on Microencapsulation and Immobilization, her main current research interest, aimed at customized solutions for enabling active materials and advanced products. 9 international patents and more than 40 papers have resulted from her work in the academia and collaboration with the industry. She is Assistant Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department, at IST, since 2017 and belongs to the research unit CERENA. Currently she is implementing the Lab “Hands-on-Polymers” for polymer processing and characterization, in the framework of a Pedagogical Innovation Project, where Prof. Ana Carvalho also belongs.