Gabriel MerinoGabriel Merino was born in Puebla, Mexico, in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in 2003 under the supervision of Alberto Vela. After postdoctoral stages in TU Dresden (Thomas Heine and Gotthard Seifert) and Cornell University (Roald Hoffmann), he was Profesor at Universidad de Guanajuato from 2005-2011. He became Professor in Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (Cinvestav) in Mérida, Mexico in 2012. He is member of the Advisor Board of Chemical Science (RSC), ChemistrySelect (Wiley), and the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry (Wiley) and Associate Editor of RSC Advances (RSC). He obtained the Research Award from the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias (2012), the Marcos Moshinsky Award (2012), and the Walter Kohn Award (2018) by the International Center of Theoretical Physics. His research interests include nonclassical carbon and boron systems, aromaticity, and chemical bond. Read More Read Less