Cristina Peixoto graduated in Applied Chemistry and she holds a PhD in Engineering Sciences from Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica Biológica (ITQ😎 from New University of Lisbon. Working in Animal Cell Technology since 1996, her PhD contributed to the establishment of several scalable purification processes for complex biopharmaceuticals, mainly virus and virus like particles for vaccine and gene therapy. Meanwhile Cristina managed more than 30 research contract projects with Industrial partners, some of the processes developed are nowadays in phase I and II. She is invited lecturer in several PhD and Master Programs. She published over 70 manuscripts in refereed international journals.