Pedro E. Sánchez Jiménez is Associate Professor at the Institute of Materials Science of Seville (ICMS), Spain. He received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Seville in 2008 and he then developed his research career as a postdoctoral fellow and visiting professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder; the IEMM in Montpellier; the department of materials science at the University of Cambridge; and, finally, the ICMS. His research interests lie in a variety of fields related to solid-state reactions and processes, reaction kinetics, polymer-derived ceramics, mechanochemistry and thermal characterization. His current research focuses on the study of thermal and thermochemical energy storage systems for application in concentrating solar plants as well as the use of the novel flash-sintering technique as an energy-efficient ceramic processing and synthesis technique. He has produced approximately 110 peer-reviewed research publications and has been a primary investigator in several projects, both academic and industrial, related to these fields.