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Clara Vázquez-Martel is an emerging researcher at the forefront of advanced manufacturing, specializing in 3D and 4D printing technologies, smart materials, and sustainable polymer systems. Her work focuses on developing next-generation printable materials that overcome longstanding limitations in the field, particularly the challenge of reprocessability in photopolymer-based printing. Her most impactful contribution to date — "Digital Light 3D Printing of Double Thermoplastics with Customizable Mechanical Properties and Versatile Reprocessability" (2024, 33 citations) — represents a significant breakthrough in digital light processing (DLP) technology. By engineering printable thermoplastic systems, she addresses the critical recycling and reprocessing limitations inherent to traditional photopolymer thermosets, opening new pathways for sustainable additive manufacturing. Vázquez-Martel has also pioneered the use of liquid crystal emulsions as functional inks for 4D printing, demonstrating how colloidal solutions can be harnessed to fabricate smart structures with multiple, tunable functionalities — a previously unexplored territory that bridges soft matter physics with responsive material design. Her research, accumulating nearly 50 citations across publications released within a single year, signals a trajectory of considerable influence in materials science, robotics, and sustainable manufacturing communities.