Clara Sousa has a PhD degree in chemistry and has been an assistant researcher at REQUIMTE, Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry of Pharmacy Faculty, University of Porto since April of 2016. During her scientific career C Sousa has authored over 35 scientific publications, all of them ISI-indexed. She has participated in 5 funded projects from National and International institutions. Currently, Dr. Sousa is dedicated to explore the potential of infrared spectroscopic techniques coupled to chemometrics for several purposes as bacterial, yeasts and plants taxonomy and food and drugs quality control among others.