T Brandão graduated in Chemical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering - University of Porto in 1990. Her career turned towards food science and technology in 1991 when she embarked on a project as a junior researcher at Escola Superior de Biotecnologia - Universidade Católica Portuguesa (ESB-UCP). She completed the curricular part of the Master's in Food Science and Technology at ESB-UCP in 1993. In 2004, she held a Ph.D. degree in Biotechnology with a specialization in Food Science and Engineering, also from ESB-UCP. During her Ph.D. program, she enriched her expertise by completing post-graduate courses in data analysis and experimental design at the University of California, Davis, USA.

Following her academic journey, she contributed significantly to research at the Centre for Biotechnology and Fine Chemistry (CBQF) funded by post-doctoral grants from 2004 to 2018. Currently, she serves as an auxiliary researcher at CBQF as a member of the Food and Nutrition Group/Laboratory of Food Processing and Engineering. Her research interests are centered around thermal and mild non-thermal food processes, including ozone and ultrasound-based treatments, as well as UV-C radiation and cold plasma. She focuses on enhancing quality and safety characteristics, particularly in fruits and vegetable matrices. Preservation techniques such as dehydration, refrigeration, and freezing also capture her attention. Moreover, she delves into the exploitation of bioactive and nutritive compounds from waste parts of fruits, aiming to develop innovative strategies for adding value to fruit wastes. With expertise in data analysis, statistical experimental design, and mathematical modeling, she contributes significantly to the fields of kinetics of quality changes and predictive microbiology.

Alongside her research efforts, she was engaged from 2007 to 2009 in institutional roles as a collaborator and coordinator of the External and International Services of ESB-UCP.

Since 1991, she has been actively involved in academia as an Invited Assistant Professor at ESB-UCP. Her dedication extends across a wide range of disciplines in the engineering domain, including Physics, Thermodynamics, Statistics/Biostatistics, Mathematics, and Numerical Analysis.