Lídia Cunha holds a MsC in Chemical Engineering (FEUP, 2016). In 2016/2017, Lídia co-founded two startups (Toca do granel; Biograma) focused on the food organic area. Additionally, she worked as a consultant (since 2018) in an international laboratory (NEOTRON). Since 2021, her motivation has been directed towards the research field, where she has been involved in nanotechnology and hydrometallurgy projects. In 2021, Lídia studied the design of nanocarriers based on gold nanoparticles for the treatment of chronic skin diseases. Since 2022, Lídia has been actively engaged in the hydrometallurgy field as a researcher at CERENA. Lídia was involved in Cavali Project, where she studied lithium sorption by ion exchange. In 2023, she joined the INN4MIN project, studying the extraction of precious and semi-precious metals from printed circuit boards to reduce environmental impacts and improve mineral processing efficiency while promoting best practices in the industry. This over-all professional experience has given her important data analysis and technical skills at an industrial market level. Lídia is enrolled as a doctoral researcher at B|AGAIN, a new company in the DST group. Her PhD focuses on studying the hydrometallurgical process to obtain high-grade materials from black mass derived from end-of-life lithium-ion battery recycling.