Mauro Fianchini obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. (5 years) in Chemistry from the University of Camerino (MC, Italy) in 2004. He received his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Texas at Arlington (Texas, USA) in 2009. In 2009, he also spent time at Alcon Laboratories Inc. in Fort Worth (TX), working under the supervision of Dr. B. Boring and Dr. D. L. Dunn. After a brief postdoctoral period at the University of Texas at Arlington and the School of Chemistry of Bangor, he was awarded a Marie Curie COFUND fellowship with Prof. F. Maseras at ICIQ. In 2019, he was hired by former ICIQ director, Prof. M.A. Perìcas, to work as a supporting theoretician for his research group. In 2021, he joined Dr. J. Gracia in MagnetoCat SL as a senior scientist, theoretician, and manager of the computational facilities. His scientific interests focus on the use of theory/computation to explain and/or predict chemical events and phenomena.