M. Concepción Gimeno graduated in Chemistry at the University of Zaragoza and carried out the PhD Thesis, under the supervision of Professors Rafael Usón and Antonio Laguna, at the same University. She carried out a postdoctoral stay at the University of Bristol with Prof. Gordon Stone, working on the synthesis and reactivity of transition metal carbines. In 1990, she obtained a position as Senior Scientist of the CSIC, in the Institute of Chemical Synthesis and Homogeneous Catalysis and later she got the promotion to Scientific Researcher in 2000 and Research Professor in 2008. Her scientific interests are focused on the design, study and analysis of new group 11 metal compounds with specific catalytic, luminescent and/or biological properties and with potential applications. She has been awarded with the "IUPAC 2017 Distinguished Women in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering", the "Excellence in Research of the Organometallic Chemistry Group (GEQO)" in 2017 and the "Excellence in Research of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ)" in 2018, among others.