Since 1988, Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky is a Research Professor Scientist at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC, currently the Head of the Hybrid, Biohybrid, and Porous Nanostructured Materials team at the Materials Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM), CSIC. Graduate in Chemistry from the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, in 1970; Docteur ès Sciences, Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) in 1974; and Ph.D. in Chemistry, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, in 1979. Author of around 200 publications and 20 patents on the research topics: Nanostructured Functional Materials; Hybrid, Biohybrid, Intercalation Compounds and Nanocomposites; Layered and Porous Inorganic Solids. Member of the Direction Committee of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) (1989–2013). Vice President and President of the Spanish Clay Society (2002–2010), Member of the Direction Committee of the ICMM-CSIC. Invited Professor at the Collège de France, Paris (France), Editor in Chief of Recent Patents in Nanotechnology and Associated Editor of Current Nanoscience since 2010. Member of the Editorial Board of various SCI journals. Awarded with the STAS Prize, the BRUYLANTS award, the ICIDCA award, the AIPEA medal, the Guillaume Budé Medal, and various Distinctions of the CSIC, Spain.