Srishti Singh, current researcher at Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia. The research project under "From Fossil to Forest: Sustainable packaging and products to replace fossil plastic" aims at the development, demonstration, and industrialization of innovative and sustainable packaging solutions, namely paper with increased mechanical barrier properties (moisture, liquids, gases, oil, and grease), rigid moulded cellulose, biocomposites with the incorporation of cellulose fibers in thermoplastic matrices and “Smart Packaging”. Concluded MSc Food Science, Technology and Business at KU Leuven, the master's thesis project was based on recycling of food-grade PP cups using supercritical carbon dioxide extraction. The thesis project yielded PP cups decontamination efficiency of more than 80%, the work is now published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 2022. Graduated with BSc (Hons.) Chemistry at St. Stephens with the Bachelor's thesis project on molecular docking of Neurophysin I and oxytocin. Former researcher in the European project "BioProtect: Development of packaging material biodegradable with active properties for food preservation" from 2022-23. The project targeted developing biodegradable films for food packaging with multifunctional properties, e.g. antimicrobial and ethylene absorbing. Research trainee at Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology in 2021, where she developed a path to decontaminate animal tissue using cold atmospheric plasma. In 2023, she was funded by Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) by COST action CA19124, performed at Institut za celulozo in papir, Ljubljana (Slovenia). Here, the aim was to obtain paper coated with biomaterials on pilot scale and to learn the analysis of physics-chemical, optical, barrier and surface tests. Experience with GC-MS, GC-FID, cold plasma treatment, FTIR, DSC and Supercritical extraction. Parallelly during master's thesis, contributed to the daily work at the Laboratory CINATE (Food Quality and Safety Centre at Escola Superior de Biotecnologia - Universidade Católica Portuguesa). This experience trained her in migration analysis related to packaging material. Additionally, have teaching and tutoring experience of 3 yrs.