Carmen Martínez-García is a professor in the Department of Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering at the University of Jaén. She has a B.Sc. in Chemistry and a B.Sc. in Food Science and Technology from the University of Granada. She completed her thesis on waste recovery in the ceramic matrix at the University of Jaén in 2009. Since 2015, she has been the Managing Director of Academic Organization of the University of Jaén. Previously, she was the Subdirector of Quality and Attention to Disability of the Higher Polytechnic School of Linares of the University of Jaén (2012–2015). She has belonged to the Materials Engineering and Mining Research Group since 2004. She has made more than 80 contributions to national and international congresses. She is the author of 31 articles in international journals indexed in JCR, 14 of them in the first quartile, and the co-author of seven book chapters and the editor of an international workshop proceeding volume. She has experience in the characterization of the microstructure and thermomechanical behavior of ceramic materials and knowledge of the different processing methods of these materials. She has participated in six research projects and supervised four doctoral theses in the past 5 years. Her research areas are materials engineering, advanced materials, construction materials and waste recovery. Her research work is mainly focused on waste recovery in clay products and the circular economy.