Invited Researcher in Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa. Oksana Nesterova graduated in Inorganic Chemistry (2001) and completed PhD degree in Chemistry (2005) from the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine, where she continued as a Researcher during 2005-2010. Her PhD and further work were focused on the development of synthetic methods towards synthesis of multimetallic compounds and magneto-structural studies. From 2010 to 2018 Nesterova held a postdoctoral position at the Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE), Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, Portugal, where she made advances on the development of efficient and selective catalytic systems and proposed new ones based on transition metal catalysts towards the mild hydrocarbon C–H bond activation. From November 2018 to October 2024 she had a fixed term Contracted Researcher position, continuing her research in coordination chemistry and catalysis at the CQE. From November 2024 she is a Research Member (Invited Researcher) at the CEEQ-ISEL (Centro Estudos de Engenharia Química, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa). She (co)authored 63 peer-reviewed publications (h index = 21), 3 book chapters and 5 patents. She participated in 3 national and international research projects funded by FCT and INTAS as a team member and as the PI in 2 funded competitive projects in FCT calls. Nesterova has collaborations with research groups from Portugal, Poland, Slovakia, USA, Ukraine, Austria and Australia. In 2006-2007 Nesterova had 2 research visits at the Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Austria where she got skills in the characterization of metal complexes by Mossbauer and UV/Vis spectroscopy. In 2007 she got the grant from Józef Mianowski Fund for the research at the Chemical Department of Wroclaw University, Poland, where she got deep knowledge and experimental skills in EPR spectroscopic characterization of the transition metal complexes. Nesterova (co)supervised 1 bachelor, 6 master and 3 PhD students, 2 students under ERASMUS fellowship and 1 visiting researcher. She was a Guest Editor (2021) of the special issue devoted to polynuclear complexes in oxidation catalysis in Catalysts and she served as a reviewer of 42 scientific papers for chemical and multidisciplinary journals (ACS, RSC, Wiley, Elsevier, MDPI). Nesterova belonged to the executive organizing committee of XXII ISHC (2022, PT), ICNI (2019, PT), 7th EuCheMS Conference on Nitrogen Ligands (2018, PT) (also was session chairperson), ICOMC (2012, PT) and 21st International Chugaev Conference on Coordination Chemistry (2003, UA). Nesterova works in the area of Chemical Sciences, with emphasis in Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis. She has experience in inorganic and organic synthesis, practical synthesis of coordination compounds, including hetero- and multimetallic ones, spectroscopic (UV, EPR, IR) and magnetochemical (SQUID) methods. She is actively working in the field of homogeneous catalysis, what includes comprehensive methods of investigation of catalytic mechanisms (kinetic modelling, isotopic labelling), development of catalytic systems and processes in the field of C–H activation and others, and using GC-FID/GC-TCD/GCMS technique for analysis of liquid and gaseous compounds, analysis of purity grade, identification of catalytic intermediates. Nesterova has experience in DFT, ab initio and semi-empirical computational methods (ORCA, QuantumEspresso, NWChem packages), contributing on molecular modelling of organic and coordination compounds, spectroscopy and excited states, non-covalent interactions and mechanisms.