Dr. Teresa Pérez-Prado heads since 2008, the Sustainable Metallurgy group at IMDEA Materials Institute. She was Division Leader between 2014 and 2017, and Deputy Director between 2017 and 2021. From 2018 to 2022 she was Manager of the programme on Structural Materials at the Spanish National Science Foundation. Dr. Pérez-Prado got a PhD in Physics at the Complutense University in Madrid in 1998 and an MBA at INSEAD, France, in 2008. After a 2-year postdoctoral stay at the University of California in San Diego, USA, she joined the National Center for Metals Research (Madrid, Spain) in 2001, where she was granted a Tenured Scientist position in 2004. She currently is a member of the Scientific Council of several international institutions including the NOMATEN Center of Excellence (Polans, 2018-2023), the IRT Jules Verne (France), the Henry Royce Institute (UK), and the European Space Agency (2018-2024). She has published more than 150 papers (h50, 9500 citations) in the field of physical metallurgy and advanced manufacturing.