Luísa Margarida Martins is Full Professor at the Chemical Engineering Department (DEQ) of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. She serves as Vice President for Scientific Affairs of DEQ (since 2023) and was coordinator of DEQ’s scientific area Synthesis, Molecular Structure and Chemical Analysis (2021-2025). She is the coordinator of the PhD in Chemistry (since 2023) and co-founder of the Catalysis and Sustainability PhD program. Luísa develops her research activities at Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE), Institute of Molecular Sciences (IMS), of IST, coordinates the MARCLab - Molecular Architectures, Reactivity and Catalysis research group, and was (2018-23) coordinator of CQE thematic line Synthesis, Catalysis and Reactivity (SYNCat) and member of CQE Coordination Commission of the Scientific Council. Luísa's research focuses on the application of green chemistry principles to provide improved (cost-effective, energy-efficient, sustainable, and scalable) catalytic processes for the synthesis of large-scale commodities (e.g., acetic and adipic acids), the fixation of carbon dioxide (e.g., into methanol, formic acid or (poly)carbonates), and biomass valorisation (e.g., into biopolymers or sugar-acids). Luísa is team leader in designing sustainable homogeneous and/or single-site heterogenous catalysts and combine them with unconventional synthetic strategies and computational studies. Her preferred catalysts are the C-scorpionate complexes. She is also very keen of molecular electrochemistry and electrocatalysis. She is a highly cited researcher, recognized by Stanford University (since 2019), maintaining her position in the top 2% in her field. In 2022 Luísa was awarded the Scientific Prize University of Lisbon / CGD Bank (Chemistry and Chemical Engineering areas) and was nominated expert in Science Literacy Capacity Building for the Female Sci-Tech Talent Capacity Building Centre. In 2021 and 2020 Luísa was awarded Honorary Distinctions for the Areas of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering at the 2020 and 2019 (respectively) editions of the Scientific Prize University of Lisbon / CGD Bank. In 2017 Luísa has been awarded the Scientific Excellence Prize IPL-CGD for the Areas of Technology and Engineering (in recognition of her scientific productivity and impact along the last three years). She is FRSC, member of ACS and ISE, and the former President of the Portuguese Electrochemical Society (SPE). Since 2023 Luísa serves as Vice President of the Portuguese Chemical Society (SPQ). She is also founding member of IRACE -International Research Association on Circular Economy. Since 2025 she is Associate Editor of Coordination Chemistry Reviews (IF 20.3, CS 34.3), Elsevier.