Prof. Raúl Muñoz is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology, Universidad de Valladolid, and a researcher at the Institute of Sustainable Processes, Valladolid, Spain. He obtained his Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Universidad de Valladolid in 2001 and completed his PhD in Environmental Biotechnology at Lund University (Lunds Universitet), Sweden, in 2005. He joined Universidad de Valladolid in November 2005 as a Juan de la Cierva researcher and has built his full academic career at this institution, attaining his full‑professor position in 2020. His core research interests cover biological gas treatment, biogas upgrading, and algal‑bacterial photobioreactor‑based wastewater treatment.