M. L. Casella got her PhD at the University of La Plata in 1989. She is Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of La Plata, and Principal Researcher of the National Council of Scientific Research (CONICET). She is the Director of CINDECA, a research center of CONICET. Her current research interests include the preparation and characterization of catalysts for the obtention of biodiesel, the selective oxidation and etherification of its main product, glycerol, and the application of Surface Organometallic Chemistry on Metals for chemo-, stereo-, and enantioselective hydrogenation reactions. Additionally, her investigations deal with biomass utilization and the computational modeling of catalysts.