Ana Maria Faisca Phillips is presently a researcher at Centro de Quimica Estrutural, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa. Her research interests are focused on the development of new synthetic methodology based on enantioselective homogeneous catalysis and organocatalysis and on target-oriented synthesis directed at potentially biologically active molecules. She has 60 publications, including book chapters and 812 citations, and an h-index of 17 (Web of Knowledge, 7 December 2023). She is also the editor of four books.