Maria A. Goula is Professor of Catalysis in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Western Macedonia (UOWM). She is also the Director of the Laboratory of Alternative Fuels and Environmental Catalysis (LAFEC). The research interests of Prof. M.A. Goula are focused in the fields of heterogeneous catalysis and, especially, in materials synthesis and characterization, catalyst development and evaluation, and investigation of reaction kinetics and mechanisms. Prof. M.A. Goula is the author of over 100 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals, which have received over 4200 citations (Scopus), giving her a Hirsch (h)-index of 36 (Scopus).