Luísa Margarida Martins is Full Professor at the Chemical Engineering Department (DEQ) of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. She is vice president for the scientific affairs of DEQ, coordinator of the scientific area Synthesis, Molecular Structure and Chemical Analysis of DEQ and Coordinator of the PhD program in Chemistry. Luísa develops her research (since 1992) at Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE), Institute of Molecular Sciences, of IST. She co-coordinates her research group (IOARC). She was the PI of the thematic line SYNCat - Synthesis, Catalysis and Reactivity and member of the Coordination Commission of this Centre (2018-23). She is also co-founder of the CATSUS - Catalysis and Sustainability PhD program. Luísa Is Vice-president of Portuguese Chemical Society. Luísa's research focuses on the application of green chemistry principles to provide improved (cost-effective, energy-efficient, sustainable, and scalable) catalytic processes for the synthesis of large-scale commodities (e.g., acetic and adipic acids), the fixation of carbon dioxide (e.g., into methanol, formic acid or (poly)carbonates), and biomass valorisation (e.g., into biopolymers or sugar-acids). Luísa is team leader in designing sustainable homogeneous and/or single-site heterogenous catalysts and combine them with unconventional synthetic strategies and computational studies. Her preferred catalysts are the C-scorpionate complexes.