Dr Elsa Martínez is a post-doctoral researcher who has recently joined Dr. Carles Galdeano's lab and Dr. Diego Muñoz-Torrero’s lab as part of a collaboration with La Fundació Bosch i Gimpera and the VHIO. After completing her MSc in Industrial Chemistry and Introduction to Chemical Research in 2014 at the University Autònoma de Barcelona, she moved to the University of Birmingham (UK), where she undertook her PhD under the supervision of Dr. Paul Davies from 2014 to 2018. Her project consisted of the development of a general strategy to construct complex imidazoyl heterocycles through a gold-catalysed annulation process. Following that, she worked as a Teaching Fellow in the Collaborative Teaching Laboratory at the University of Birmingham.