Anabela A. Valente studied chemical engineering at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), and received her doctorate in chemical engineering/catalysis from the same university. After a post-doctoral period at the University of Aveiro (UA, Portugal), in the field of Materials Engineering, she became assistant researcher at CICECO (UA). Since 2015, she has held the position of principal researcher at the same institution. Her research is related to applied homogeneous/heterogeneous catalysis and materials science. She is responsible for a team interested in the chemical valorization of biomass-derived compounds via catalytic routes. She has trained and prepared young scientists (MSc, PhD) for developing a scientific career (some integrated the industry). She has collaborated with members of different national (e.g. Lisbon, Algarve) and foreign (e.g. Spain, UK, Germany, Ukraine, Poland) universities in the development of multidisciplinary research works, and some reference players from the industry (Merck KGaA, Bosch). She has been involved in several scientific projects with competitive funding. She is co-author of ca. 220 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and over 270 poster communications at national/international conferences; h-index = 48 (Scopus), w-index = 9, and total citations without self-citations of all authors = 5638 (of a total of 7209). She was elected twice as member of the Scientific Council of the UA, and is presently co-director of the Department of Chemistry, UA. She is board member (for Portugal) of the Federation of European Zeolite Associations, FEZA since 2020. Elected as Chemistry Europe Fellow (Fellows Class 2020/2021).