Full Professor at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), working in the field of Pharmaceutical Technology, and permanent advisor for Master's and PhD students in the Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences. She is Head of the Intellectual Property Center of the Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Office and a member of the Institutional Committee for Initiation in Technological Innovation and Development and the Research Committee at UFSM. She serves on the Fiscal Council of the Brazilian Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences and on the Editorial Board of the journal Drug Delivery and Translational Research. She is a researcher at the National Institute of Science and Technology in 3D Printing and Advanced Materials Applied to Human and Animal Health (INCT_3D-Saúde) and a member of its management committee. She served as Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences at UFSM from 2015 to 2019. She holds a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, with a doctoral research stay at Université Paris-Sud (France). She coordinates the Labtec-Nano Research Center at UFSM.E-mail: leticia.cruz@ufsm.br