Marta Andrade works in the area of Engineering and Technology with an emphasis on Materials Engineering. She completed her PhD in Technological Chemistry by the University of Lisboa (2016) upon photocatalytic studies using carbon materials for the degradation of aqueous contaminants. During her PhD she spent three months abroad, at Instituto Nacional del Carbón, in Spain. She was a post-doc fellow of the European project LIFE Impetus-Improving current barriers for controlling pharmaceuticals compounds in urban wastewater treatment plants. Marta Andrade is currently a researcher in Centro de Química Estrutural, in the Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis Group. She has a decade of experience in the preparation, characterization and application of nanomaterials as adsorbents in both gas and liquid phase. One of her main research areas is the synthesis of activated carbons by chemical and physical activation of biomass and in the use of innovative methodologies as hydrothermal carbonization and their textural characterization and surface chemistry characterization. Her current research interests relate to the application of nanoporous materials in catalytic applications, in the area of heterogeneous catalysis under mild conditions, namely by activation of a variety of small molecules with biological, environmental, or industrial significance. The studies are focused on the heterogenization of scorpionate complexes onto solid supports of different natures (e.g., silicas, zeolites or carbon materials) and on the catalytic activity of these materials towards the oxidation of alkanes or alcohols. She published 23 papers in international peer-review journals. Her work was cited nearly 600 times contributing to an h-index of 121, the average citations per item being 26. She is co-author of a book chapter. In her professional activities interacted with 84 collaborator(s) co-authorship of scientific papers. She also presented several oral and poster communications in national and international conferences and has received two awards. She was involved as a team member in several research projects financed by FCT. Marta Andrade has also been involved in the supervision of master students, the guidance of an ERASMUS student and tutoring in Summer internships. She was involved in the organization of four international conferences. She was the coordinator for the Catalysis Session in an important dissemination activity, CQE Days 2020, choosing the most representative works and moderating the presentation session. In the last five years, Marta Andrade suspended her laboratory activities two times for maternity leave (in 2015 and in 2018/2019).