Javier Garcia-Ben holds a Xunta de Galicia Ph.D. Research Fellowship at the Advanced Scientific Research Center of the University of A Coruna (Spain). He obtained an ScB in Chemistry at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) in 2018, and an ScM in Complex Materials, thermal analysis, and rheology at the joint program between the University of A Coruna and Université de Paris (France) in 2019. Since then, he has been a Ph.D. student in the Program of Environmental and Fundamental Chemistry at the University of A Coruna. His research is focused on the development of hybrid organic-inorganic materials for barocaloric heating and cooling, and for cold storage applications. In 2017, he obtained a Junior Research Assistant Fellowship granted by the Spanish Ministry of Education. In 2018, he was recognized with the ScM Extraordinary Award, and he was also awarded the NanoGateway Mobility Programme (2019) and IACOBUS Programme (2020) Internships at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (Braga, Portugal).