M Paula Robalo is currently Coordinator Professor with Habilitation in Inorganic Chemistry at the Chemical Engineering Department, ISEL-Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa. She earned his Degree in Chemistry at Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon in 1986, her PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon in 1993 and the Habilitation in Chemistry from IST, University of Lisbon, in 2020. After completing her PhD, she got a position as Assistant Professor at Chemical Department of University of Évora. In 2000, became Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at the same Department. In 2002, she accepted a Coordinator Professor position at ISEL, where she has been since that time. She published more than 60 papers in scientific journals and 4 book chapters. She supervised 3 PhD thesis and 8 masters dissertations. M Paula Robalo's research interests include: i) development of new, more sustainable synthetic methodologies, based primarily on the use of biocatalysts, aqueous media, no organic solvents and microwave synthesis of products with biological activity; ii) synthesis and characterization of transition metal complexes for applications as NLO, photochromic materials and molecular wires; iii) valorization of biomass or industrial organic waste using more sustainable extraction methods and study of the biological activities; iv) use of spectroscopic techniques as diagnostic tools in the study of biomass and industrial organic waste recovery processes; v) application of electrochemical techniques (e.g. cyclic voltammetry and electrolysis at controlled potential) in the characterization of organic compounds and transition metal complexes as new materials or with biological activity in order to establish structure-property relationships as well as to study antitumor metalo-drugs and biomolecule interactions.