José Carlos Garcia Pereira, Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisboa, completed (5-year) degree of licentiate in Chemical Engineering in 1986; in 1991, he completed a (4.5-year) Master's in Physics at the Classic, Technical and New Universities of Lisboa, with a thesis entitled “Calculation of the depolarization ratio in Raman spectroscopy of amorphous solids”; in 1997, he completed his Ph.D. with a thesis entitled “Atomistic modelling of the chemistry of silica in sol-gel processes”, at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, attributed by the London University. His main research interests have been the development of scientific software in various areas of research and engineering, with more than 40 years of experience in this area. Since 1999, he has been developing GAMGI—General Atomistic Modelling Graphic Interface (EU registered trademark between 2001 and 2024): an atomistic modelling computer package (~290.000 lines of C code) that is available on the Internet. Since 2010, Prof. Dr. Pereira has developed software to simulate mechanical operations such as polishing (PAM, ~2.800 lines of C code) to study robot polishing. Since 2017, he has been developing software to simulate optical behaviour, using ray tracing techniques (LAM, ~9000 lines of C code) to simulate concentrated solar power facilities, such as solar furnaces and heliostat fields.