**About the Editor**

#### **Noelia Duarte**

Noelia Duarte has a degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences (1995), M.Sc. in Pharmaceutical ´ Chemistry (1999) and Ph.D. in Pharmacy (2008, University of Lisbon). She has been an Assistant Professor at FFUL since 2008, teaching and coordinating several 1st and 2nd cycle curricular units. She has expertise in several chromatographic and spectrophotometric techniques, including HPLC and GC, ultraviolet, infrared, nuclear magnetic resonance, and mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS). Her research has been focused on the isolation and structural characterization of bioactive compounds isolated from plants and other sources, and on mass spectrometry studies applied to the identification and quantification of metabolites from plants and biological matrices. N. Duarte is author or co-author of seven book chapters, and more than 50 research papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
