In 1983, Marcos A. P. Martins received his Ph.D., from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He moved to the Federal University of Santa Maria, where he is now a Full Professor in Organic Chemistry. In 1987, he received a DAAD Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at Universität Stuttgart, Germany. In 1999 he received the 'FAPERGS AWARD' of the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul for his 'outstanding contributions to chemistry'. In 2010, on occasion of the 25 years (1985-2010) of the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Química (PPGQ), the UFSM honored Professor Martins for his active participation during the development of the Project and its implementation, and for his participation as board member of PPGQ first professors. Today PPGQ presents concept 7 in CAPES evaluation. Professor Martins has been a productivity fellow of the CNPq for over 40 years, holding a Level 1A Researcher fellowship for more than two decades. The scientific production of Professor Martins includes ca. 450 articles, reviews (3 in Chem. Rev, IF 64.2) and book chapters, with the h-index = 45. He is reviewer to more than 80 international journals; researcher cited among the most influential in the world in science/2020, Ranking of PLOS BIOLOGY; received the invitation of Prof. Sauvage (Nobel Prize 2016) to publish 2 articles on Eur. J. Org. Chem. in 2019 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Rotaxanes. Researcher listed by Elsevier in two rankings published in 2021 data-update ''Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators''. At the UFSM, he is a leader of the research group named NUQUIMHE, Núcleo de Química de Heterociclos, Department of Chemistry. This group is composed of three more Researchers and ca. 40 students (Postdoctoral fellows, Ph.D. students, MS students, and undergraduate students). Under his guidance, 46 masters and 36 PhDs have been graduated. Martins' research interests were centered on heterocyclic chemistry, synthetic methods, green procedures, the use of ionic liquids, and solvent-free procedures in condensation reactions. Currently, Professor Martins has redirected his research scope toward Crystal Engineering and Supramolecular Chemistry, focusing on the study of organic crystalline systems, complexity, emergent properties, intermolecular interactions, molecular topology and self-organization, as well as molecular machines, specifically the synthesis and structural studies of rotaxanes. Professor Martins works as a consultant to various industries, being one of the creators and responsible by NAPO, Núcleo de Análises e Pesquisas Orgânicas (DQ, UFSM), which operates in technological projects for industry. NAPO works in accordance with Quality System NBR ISO/IEC 17025. Professor Martins believes that a well-rounded education is important for the chemist researcher. For this reason, he has been promoting in his research group a series of seminars in areas such as philosophy, fenomenology and hermeneutics, history, literature, and arts. He presents a scientific trajectory stands out for its innovative integration of epistemological foundations with solid-state chemistry. In the fields of Crystal Engineering, his research redefines the crystallization of organic molecules as a self-organization process that gives rise to complex systems governed by emergent properties that are irreducible to and unpredictable from individual molecular behavior alone. In parallel, Professor Marcos has enriched the discourse on scientific method by approaching science through the lens of phenomenology, in which the encounter between subject and object occurs at the level of consciousness. This perspective establishes a direct correlation among methodological rigor, hermeneutics, understood as the living interpretation of the phenomenon, and the researcher's ethics, positioning scientific practice as a conscious act of responsibility toward the complex systems under investigation.