Prof. Dr. Nataša Novak Tušar has been the head of the Laboratory of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry and Technology at the National Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana since 2020. Since 2018, she has been a full professor and director of the PhD program "Materials" at University Nova Gorica, Slovenia. After obtaining her PhD in Chemistry, she was an Individual Marie Curie Fellow at the synchrotron ELETTRA and at the University of Trieste, Italy, from 2003 to 2004. She is a member of the governing bodies of the ENMIX (European Nanoporous Materials Institute of Excellence) and EFCATS (European Federation of Catalysis Societies).