M. Villen-Guzman is an Associate Professor at the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Malaga. She graduated in Chemical Engineering (2010), and obtained a Master's degree in Advanced Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Malaga (2016). Her research interests lie within critical raw material recovery from solid matrices, water treatment, electrokinetic remediation, and CO2 capture. She carried out research stays at NOVA University of Lisbon and the Marche Polytechnic University. She has published 7 book chapters, 30 SCI articles and more than 60 contributions to international conference proceedings, with an overall h-index of 15 and more than 500 citations (Dec-2023).