Federico Rosei is Professor of the INRS Centre Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Varennes (QC), Canada. He holds the UNESCO Chair in Materials and Technologies for Energy Conversion, Saving and Storage and the Senior Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Materials. He received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1996 and 2001, respectively. He has received several awards and is a Fellow/Member of many prestigious societies and academies, including the Royal Society of Canada, the European Academy of Sciences, the American Physical Society, the World Academy of Arts and Science, the Chinese Chemical Society (Honorary), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, SPIE, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, ASM International and the Engineering Institute of Canada.