Ana Matias is Head of Production & Development at Canna.biz in Torres Vedras, Portugal, where she led the build-up of the company's GMP manufacturing operations through to EU-GMP manufacturing authorisation, and now oversees production, scale-up and technology transfer. Before Canna.biz, she was Extraction Lead and then R&D Manager at Clever Leaves Portugal, supporting GMP medical cannabis operations. She spent almost two decades at iBET, rising from PhD researcher to laboratory and research group leader in extraction technologies, formulation and particle engineering, including a Marie Curie industry–academia fellowship at the University of Valladolid. She holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from ITQB NOVA, has authored more than 70 peer-reviewed publications, is co-inventor on four patents and has supervised five PhD candidates.