Filomena Elisabete Lopes Martins Elvas Leitão is Associated Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (DQB) of the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (FCUL) since April 2023. She graduate in 1984 in Chemistry and got her PhD in Physical Chemistry in 1993 at the same Institution. She entered as Trainee Assistant in DQB in 1985 where she became Assistant in 1988, after public examination, and Assistant Professor in 1993. In 1996 she gained a post-doc NATO scholarship to work in a joint project on correlation analysis of biological systems with Professor Michael H. Abraham at UCL and Dr. Robert C. Mitchell in SmithKline Beecham in UK. From September 1996 to September 1998 she was appointed, by invitation, to Director General of the Studies and Planning Office of the Secretary of State for Youth, in Service Commission. She is PI of the Structure and Reactivity Group since 2000, first in the Research Centre, Centro de Química e Bioquímica (CQB) until 2019 and afterwards in Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE) of the University of Lisbon (CQE is one of the 3 Research Centres that constitute the Institute of Molecular Sciences, an FCT Associated Laboratory). In 2001/02, 2008/09 and 2016/17 she took sabbatical leaves, the first two at the University of Barcelona, Spain, in the Solute-Solvent Interactions Group (Prof. Elisabeth Bosch), and the last one at the Instituto de Química of the University of S. Paulo, Brazil, in the Surfactants and Polymers Group (Prof. Omar El-Seoud), respectively. She participated in two Erasmus+ experiences (Staff mobility for teaching and training activities) at La Sapienza University, Roma, Italy, in 2015 and the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2016. She has also been involved in two EU Cost Action networks, namely one on “Improved protection of medical devices against infections” (2016-2018) and another one entitled “Towards an improvement in diagnostics and treatment strategies for TB control”, since 2022. She has supervised 4 Post-docs researchers, 3 PhD theses, 14 Master theses, 1 ongoing, and 31 final degree projects, 2 ongoing. Her research interests span from Physical Chemistry (kinetics and calorimetric studies in solution, solute-solvent-solvent interactions' studies, QSPR modelling, solvent engineering), to Medicinal Physical Chemistry (drug design, pre-screening studies, QSARs, drug-Mycobacterium tuberculosis interactions). She has participated in 8 funded projects, being PI in 5 of them. Filomena Martins is author of 63 papers, 5 book chapters (4 international) and 12 peer-review congress proceedings. She has been author or co-author of 41 oral and more than 130 poster communications. She has served as Referee in more than 25 international journals in the areas of Physical Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry. During the years at DQB, Filomena Martins has been Co-Coordinator of the common courses of the 1st Cycles of the Department (2003-2006), Co-Coordinator of the Master Courses (1999-2001), Co-Coordinator (2007-2010) and Coordinator of the 3rd Cycle in Chemistry (2021- ); Co-responsible for the implementation of the Bologna process for the 1st and 3rd Cycles of DQB (2006-2008), Co-responsible for the attribution of the EuroBachelor Label and the EuroMaster Label in Chemistry (2006-2010 and 2007-2011, respectively), Co-responsible for the 3rd Cycle Preliminary Accreditation request (2009-2010), and Member of the Self -Evaluation Committee of the 3rd Cycle in Chemistry (2013-2015); Member of the Board of Centro de Química e Bioquímica (2010-2012), Vice-President of the Executive Commission of DQB (2015-2018), Coordinator of the Evaluation Commission of the PhD Researchers of CQE (2020-2023), and Member of the Board of Centro de Química Estrutural @ Ciências (2022-2023).