Martina Benešová-Schäfer is a nuclear and radiopharmaceutical chemist. She studied nuclear chemistry at the Charles University in Prague as well as at the Czech Technical University of Prague and received her Ph.D. in Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the University of Heidelberg in 2016. After holding research positions at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen, and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, she has headed the junior research group "Molecular Biology of Systemic Radiotherapy" at the DKFZ since 2019.