Dr. Estíbaliz Merino obtained her PhD degree at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. During this period, she did a stay with Prof. Timothy Jamison at MIT. Then she moved to Germany as a postdoctoral researcher to work with Prof. Magnus Rueping. After this period, she came back to Spain as Juan de la Cierva researcher in Prof. Avelino Corma´s group at ITQ. Later, she was a research associate in the group of Prof. Cristina Nevado at University of Zurich. In 2019,she started her independent career as a Senior Research Fellow financed by Talent Attaction Program of Community of Madrid-Spain at University of Alcala (Madrid). Her current research interests focus on organic synthesis, organometallic chemistry, DFT calculations, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis.