with CAPES scholarship under the Brasil-França-Agricultura (BRAFAGRI) program. At the beginning of 2015, Matheus joined the Science of Food Engineering Master's degree program at the School of Animal Science and Food Engineering of the University of São Paulo with a CAPES scholarship under the supervision of Prof. Samantha Cristina de Pinho. After six months, he was awarded with a FAPESP scholarship, with whom he remained until the end of 2016. During his Masters, Matheus also joined the Education Improvement Program (PAE) of USP for one year and half, carrying out a volunteer internship in Thermodynamics and two funded internships in Transport Phenomena. At the beginning of 2017, Matheus joined the Science of Food Engineering Doctorate degree program at the School of Animal Science and Food Engineering of the University of São Paulo with a CAPES scholarship under the supervision of Prof. Samantha Cristina de Pinho. As it happened during his Master's degree, Matheus was awarded with a FAPESP scholarship after the first months of his doctoral research. He also joined the PAE program, this time for two years, carrying out a funded internship in Cold chain/Refrigeration process and three volunteer internships in Unit Operations and Physical-Chemistry. At the end of his Doctoral program, Matheus worked for 14 months at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Salerno (UNISA, Fisciano, Italy), funded by BEPE-FAPESP scholarship, under the supervision of Prof. Ernesto Reverchon. v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First of all, I would like to thank my parents Marilene and Luiz Fernando, my sister Mariana, and my grandmother Deize, for their love, support, and patience, especially when I was not in my best mood. I know I can be complicated. Thank you for all that you have done for me and all that you are still doing. I hope to make you proud! I cannot express enough thanks to my supervisor, mentor, friend, and "second-mom" Samantha for all the commitment, patience, learning, encouragement, concern, and support I thank the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior -Brazil (CAPES) -for the first months of doctorate scholarship (Finance Code 001). I am extremely thankful to the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo -Brazil (FAPESP) for the awarded doctorate scholarships in Brazil (grant 2017/10954-2) and in Italy during carrying out of the Research Internship Abroad (BEPE) (grant 2019/08345-3).Finally, I thank God for the protection, for the blessings, and for all the great things that have happened in my life so far.