Ana M. López was born in Aranda de Duero, Spain, in 1962. She studied Chemistry at the University of Zaragoza where she obtained her Ph. D. in 1991 under the supervision of Professors M. Pilar García and Luis A. Oro. Then she joined to the Prof. Esteruelas group. Since 2012 she is full professor at the Inorganic Chemistry Department of the Zaragoza University. Her research interest concerns organometallic complexes of the platinum group metals and their applications in homogeneous catalysis, mainly in carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bond forming processes.