Laura C. J. Pereira graduated in Technological Chemistry in 1989, completed her MSc in Physical and Chemistry of Materials in 1993 and her PhD degree in Inorganic Chemistry in 1998 in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She is principal researcher in IST since December 2015. Her knowledge field is Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences within the main scientific areas of research, Solid State Chemistry and Chemical Physics. Currently, her work is focused in structure/magnetic properties correlations in new advanced materials, smart metal oxide-based nanostructures, multifunctional molecular-based compounds, and intermetallics with 3d and f-element (lanthanides and/or actinides). She is responsible for the Magnetic Characterization Facility of the Low Temperature and High Magnetic Fields Laboratory (LTHMFL) of IST. Member of Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares (C2TN) of the University of Lisbon, in the Advanced Materials domain. Since 2016 she teaches at Instituto Superior Técnico, the course "Electrical and Magnetic Properties of Materials" for the Advanced Studies Diploma in Chemistry (PhD) at the Chemical Engineering Dept., and since 2021/2022 the course "Functional Materials" of the Materials Engineering MSc. To date, she is co-author of 161 research papers, and 3 book chapters, cited in International Data Bases (ISI Web of Knowledge). More than 2300 citations, h-index=25, Orcid ID: 0000-0002-8818-0039. She was IP of 3 and co-member of other 19 national research projects. To date she has supervised 3 PhD and 1 MSc thesis to completion and currently supervises/co-supervises 5 PhD students. Since January 2021 she is the leader of the Solid State Group of C2TN.