Cristina Delerue-Matos is a full professor of Chemistry at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP). She obtained her first degree in Chemistry from the Faculty of Science at the University of Porto in 1983, followed by a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Minho University in 1990 and a Habilitation in Chemistry from Minho University in 2010. She has been a member of the Portuguese Chemical Society since 1983. She has also been a member of the Portuguese Electrochemical Society since 1985. As of 2017, she has been the Portuguese Representative in the VI Chemistry and the Environment Division of IUPAC. She has been a full professor of Chemistry at the Porto Superior Institute of Engineering (ISEP) since 1990, where she has taught chemical and environmental classes. From 2006 to 2008, she was the president of the scientific board of the same institution and was a member from 2009 to 2016. She is also a member of REQUIMTE, the largest Chemistry and Chemical Engineering network established in Portugal.