Raquel Garcia received her degree in Chemistry and her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 1998 and 2006, respectively. She is researcher of MED  and also of CHANGE and is Assistant Professor at Crop Science Department at Évora University (UE) . Her research interests are focused on food science, mainly applied to olive oil and wine matrices, encompassing issues related to authentication, traceability and adulteration and food safety. She has participated (2016- 2020) in one national (PTDC/AGRPRO/2003/2014 - Por3O - Portuguese Olive Oil Omics for traceability and authenticity) and one international project (ARIMNet2 – MedOOmics - Mediterranean Extra Virgin Olive Oil Omics: profiling and fingerprinting) strictly devoted to these topics. In the last 5 years, she has also designed and developed selective sorbents based on molecularly imprinting technology, as a sample preparation technique, for the trace analysis of pesticide residues in olive oil, getting funding as PI for a national project (years 2012- 2015: PTDC/AGR-ALI/117544/2010- Molecularly Imprinted Polymers solid-phase extraction: A new highly selective and promising approach for trace analysis of pesticide residues in olive oil). Nowadays, she has been awarded as PI of a national project (PTDC/ASP-AGR/30097/2017- MIP2Sensors: From Molecularly Imprinted Polymers to MIP-based optical sensors: A "light-up" tool for the analysis of pesticide residues in olive oil), which is focused on the development of a sensor technology for pesticide detection in olive oil, that is currently ongoing. In the last 5 years, she published 33 articles in peer-review journals.  She also supervised Master and PhD students. She has international collaboration with researchers working on oenological field, as Drª Teresa Garden Cerdán (ICVV- Logrono-Spain) and Prof. Maria Rosário Salinas (University of Castilla La Mancha- Albacete- Spain). Some of the publications are under the scope of those international collaborations. During their scientific career, she has developed knowledge and experience on synthetic/material chemistry, chemical and morphological characterization of new materials, and chromatographic (HPLC, GC) and spectroscopic (NMR) techniques.