Dr. Tomás-Pejó received her PhD with International Mention from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid in 2009. After that, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at CIEMAT for one year and joined the Industrial Biotechnology Group at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) for 3 years. In 2014, she was awarded a MARIE Curie-AMAROUT grant to join the Biotechnological Processes Unit at IMDEA Energy where she is now permanent Senior Assistant Researcher and Ramón y Cajal Fellow. Dr. Tomás-Pejó has authored more than 70 publications and is co-inventor of 2 patents. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal FEMS Yeast Research and Associate Editor of Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts. She has been a member of the Evaluation Committee in 3 PhD defenses and Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of 4 International Conferences. Dr. Tomás-Pejó has supervised 3 PhD students and is currently supervising 3 more. She has participated in more than 20 R&D projects, has been principal investigator of 3 national projects and coordinator of 1 MSCA doctoral network. Dr. Tomás-Pejó is chairing the COST Action YEAST4BIO “Non-conventional yeast for the production of bioproducts? (2019-2024), which already involves more than 150 scientists from 34 countries.