Raquel G. Soengas is associate professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Oviedo (Spain). She studied chemistry at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), where she graduated in chemistry 1998. In 2003 she received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the same University. After a post-doctoral research grant at the University of Oxford, she began her independent career at the University of A Coruña (Spain) as an Assistant Professor in 2005. From 2011 to 2015 she was assistant researcher at the University of Aveiro. After assistant profesor contract in the University of Almería (Spain) she was hired as assistant profesor in the University of Oviedo (Spain), where she was appointed to Associate Professor with tenure in 2021. She has published over 100 papers, 6 book chapters and 2 patents. She supervised 4 PhD students and 10 MSc and BSc students. Her research interests range over the chemistry of low-valent metals and metallic salts, with special emphasis on their application in the stnthesis of carbohydrate derivatives and flavonoids and the development of greener organometallic-based chemical processes. A second line of her research is centered on the development of gold metalloantibiotics agains multiresistant pathogens.