María de la Mata obtained her degree in Chemistry from the Universidad de Oviedo and her MsC in Materials Science and Technology from the Universidad Autónoma deBarcelona. She developed her PhD at the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales deBarcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) in 2015, focused on the atomic-scale characterization of semiconductor nanomaterials by means of advanced electron microscopy tools. She has obtained several postdoctoral positions, at the Instituto de Nanociencia y Nanotecnología deCataluña, ICN2 (Spain), at Lund University (Sweden), and at the Universidad de Cádiz (Spain), where she joined the INNANOMAT Research Group, holding several postdoctoral researcher positions framed within different excellence programs. She is currently Lecturer at the Materials Science, Metallurgic Engineering, and Inorganic Chemistry Department of the university (UCA). Her research interests have moved from semiconductor non-planar nanostructures to a variety of materials systems, covering multiphase materials and (nano)composites, and going from detailed atomic-scale analyses to the design of suitable strategies for the microstructural analysis of those combined-phase materials. She has co-authored more than 80 publications in ISI-indexed journals and two book chapters, reaching a total citation number of 2350 and an h factor of 27 (WoS).