Diêgo Vinicius Fernandes Bezerra was born in Macau, Rio Grande do Norte and is in the last year of the Chemical Engineering course at UFRN (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte). Since the early years of the course, he had contact with the area of investigation and innovation, having the opportunity to work on research projects such as: “Elimination of heavy metals in aqueous solutions using adsorbents of natural origin”, as well as “Study of Soybean oil transesterification for biodiesel production from heterogeneous catalysts and surfactants”. He is currently part of the research group on surfactants formed by NUPEG (Nucleus for Teaching and Research in Oil and Natural Gas). In 2021 Diêgo joined the LBT team to develop research in the maple syrup area.