Bettina Baumgartner is a tenure-track assistant professor at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, since 2024. Bettina earned her PhD from TU Wien (Austria, 2019), focusing on infrared-spectroscopy sensing through porous films. She was a JSPS postdoctoral researcher at Osaka Prefecture University (2020), developing IR spectroscopy techniques to study host-guest interactions in MOFs. In 2021, she received a FWF Schrödinger fellowship to research CO₂ photoreduction in MOFs at Utrecht University. Her work combines porous photoactive materials with spectroscopy to explore how spatial confinement affects catalytic activity and selectivity, thereby advancing sustainable chemical processes.