Sofía Calero studied Physical Chemistry at University Complutense of Madrid, where she received her MSc degree in 1995. In 2000, she obtained her PhD, cum laude and extraordinary prize, at the same university. From 2001 to 2003 she was a postdoctoral researcher as a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In 2004 she moved to the University Pablo de Olavide, Seville as Ramon y Cajal Fellow (2004), Profesor Contratado Doctor (2006), Profesor Titular (2009) and Catedrático (2017). In 2020 she was appointed chair of Materials Simulation & Modelling at the department of Applied Physics, at Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands) and in September 2022 vice Dean of the same Department. Calero received the Marie Curie Excellence Award, ERC Consolidator Grant, ERC POC Grant, Salvador de Madariaga, Dutch VPP-KNAW, Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry award for Scientific Excellence and Irene Curie Grant.