**About the Editor**

**Simone Morais** has a Ph.D. (1998) in Chemical Engineering from the faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto. She is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Engineering (ISEP) in Porto, Portugal, and a permanent researcher at the Associated Laboratory for Green Chemistry of the Network of Chemistry and Technology (REQUIMTE). Her current research interests are chemically modified electrodes, electroanalysis, (bio)sensors, the preparation and application of nanofunctional materials, and new methodologies for monitoring pollutants and human biomonitoring. S. Morais has co-authored about 170 papers (ORCID: 0000-0001-6433-5801; Scopus ID 7007053747) in journals with impact factor and about 30 book chapters, has supervised several Ph.D. and post-doctoral fellows, and has participated in and coordinated several projects.
