Sara Quintela Realista completed her PhD in Chemistry (2018) at Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico. After she was a post-doctoral researcher of the FCT-financedd project “Chemical Synthesis Using Earth-Abundant Metal Catalysts” at Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (Universidade Nova de Lisboa). She is currently a Junior Researcher CEEC-FCT at FCUL working in inorganic chemistry and electrochemistry fields. She published 21 articles in international peer-reviewed scientific journals and 1 book chapter (h-index = 11). She has been appointed a member of the editorial board of the journals Sustainability and Frontiers in Chemistry and has been reviewing scientific articles for the MDPI journals. She has received 3 awards one from the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and two from the Portuguese Chemical Society. She recently (2022) was awarded a fellowship as a visiting researcher at the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (a collaboration between Amsterdam and Leiden Universities). She co-supervised 3 MSc dissertations and 4 works of course completion of LSc/BSc. Currently, she supervises a PhD student working on CO2 photoreduction and an MSc student working on synthesising and designing metal-organic frameworks for CO2 electroreduction. She was a member of the organising committee of 1 international and 1 national event and a member of the scientific and organising committee of 2 international events. She participates and participates as Principal investigator in 2 project, Research Fellow in 5 projects and Researcher in 6 projects. From 2020-2022 she was a lecturer of the MSc course (Chemical Systems and reactivity) and in 2023 she started as a lecturer of another MSc course (Supramolecular chemistry and Nanochemistry). In addition, during her visit to The Netherlands, she gave two lectures, one to the BSc and another to the MSc courses in Chemistry, about metal-organic frameworks (basic principles and applications). She works in the area of Exact Chemical Sciences with an emphasis on Inorganic Chemistry and Electrochemistry. She is skilled in inorganic synthesis, electrochemistry, and catalysis fields. Her current scientific interests are focused on the preparation of new electrode materials based on metal-organic frameworks using her inorganic/organic synthetic and electrochemical skills to fulfil society's needs (clean energy, disease diagnostics, etc).