Biography:

Andreia Freitas studied Chemistry in the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, and graduated as MS, in Analytical Chemistry (2008) at the same institution. She received her PhD degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences (2015), specialty of Bromatology and Hydrology at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra. With more than 18 years of experience, she is currently a researcher in the field of Food Safety specially in veterinary drug residues analysis and contaminants in food of animal origin in the Nacional Institute of Agrarian and Veterinary Research (INIAV) in the National Reference Laboratory for Food Safety.