Dr. Valérie Maraval is a CNRS Research Engineer at the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination (LCC) in Toulouse, France. She obtained her PhD in 2000 under the supervision of Jean-Pierre Majoral in Toulouse on the synthesis of phosphorous dendrimers. Then, after one year as a post-doctoral fellow with the Aventis Company, working on the oxidation of terpenic derivatives, she came back to academic research, first as a valorization engineer for two years, working on dendrimer chemistry. In 2005, she obtained a permanent position at the CNRS as a research engineer and joined the team of Remi Chauvin at LCC in Toulouse, where she worked for 17 years on the design and synthesis of carbomer molecules. She obtained her habilitation in 2014. In 2022, she moved to the team of Anne-Marie Caminade, where her scientific interests focus on acetylenic and organophosphorus chemistry with two main objectives: (i) the design and synthesis of dendrimers (arborescent three-dimensional macromolecules) for their biological and physical properties; (ii) the design and synthesis of lipidic polyacetylene derivatives for biological applications (especially anti-cancer and anti-bacterial).