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Portuguese astrobiologist

Zita Carla Torrão Pinto MartinsFRS (born 1979),^[3][4]OSE, is a Portuguese astrobiologist, and an associate professor at Instituto Superior Técnico.^[5] She was a Royal Society University Research Fellow (URF)^[1] at Imperial College London.^[6] Her research explores how life may have begun on Earth by looking for organic compounds in meteorite samples.^{[7][8][9][10]}

Early life and education

As a child, Zita Martins studied classical ballet from the age of four and was encouraged by her teacher to progress to the National Ballet School in Portugal, which would have put her on track to become a professional dancer.^[11] Instead, at the age of 15, she decided she wanted to pursue science, gave up ballet and taught herself Russian.

At secondary school, she filled in a careers test, which advised her strengths were in science and art, which Zit