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Professor Juan José Palacios graduated in Physics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) in 1989. He earned his PhD at the same university in 1993 thanks to his theoretical work on electronic structure and transport properties of semiconductor quantum dots and on various topics related to the integer and fractional quantum Hall effect (QHE). Prof. Palacios continued his career as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Research Council (Canada), Indiana University (USA), and University of Kentucky (USA) where, among other topics, he explored more in depth the many-body physics of the fractional QHE in collaboration with Allan MacDonald, also doing fundamental work on vortex matter and mesoscopic superconductivity in collaboration with Andre Geim. At the Universidad of Alicante (Spain), where Prof. Palacios worked for almost 10 years, he pioneered one of the first projects to compute quantum transport from first principles, resulting in a collection of codes currently distributed under the common denomination ANT (Atomistic NanoTransport). Since 2009 Prof. Palacios works at the department of Condensed Matter Physics (UAM). In 2014 he co-founded SIMUNE Atomistics, the first company in Spain that offers computational services for material science related industrial needs. Prof. Palacios area of expertise is in theoretical and computational Condensed Matter Physics with current interest in graphene and two-dimensional crystals, topological insulators, molecular electronics, and nanoelectronics. He is the author of over 130 publications which have received over 4300 citations. His h-index is 35.