Marta Wilton Vasconcelos has been devoted to the field of Life Sciences, with an emphasis on Plant Nutrition for the past 18 years. Her passion has been to understand how to grow better and more food in a world of less available resources and a growing population. She conducted her PhD on biofortification at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), in the Philippines, where she developed a biofortified rice utilizing biotechnology tools, and targeting rice varieties grown in Mozambique. She worked for five years at the Children´s Nutrition Research Center, at Baylor College of Medicine (USA) as Research Associate working on legume and cereal nutrition. She is assistant professor at Catholic University of Portugal, member of the director´s board of the Center for Biotechnology and Fine Chemistry,  and group leader, working towards understanding how we can continue to grow nutritious food in the context of climate change. Besides teaching and research, she is actively engaged in communication, policy advising, cross border collaboration engagement and acting as project evaluator for different funding agencies.  She is deputy coordinator of the H2020 project TRUE (Transition Pathways for Sustainable Legume Based Systems in Europe, 2017-2021), a project that puts legumes at the forefront of food policy debates concerning global food security and sustainable food production systems. She is Chief Editor of Frontiers in Plant Nutrition, and is one of the young members of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.