Juan Torrent-Burgués is a Full Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He is a member of the Molecular and Industrial Biotechnology Group of the UPC. He graduated with a degree in Chemistry in 1983 and obtained his Ph.D. in 1988 at the University of Barcelona. He teaches chemistry, optical materials and coatings, and nanotechnology in the Department of Chemical Engineering of the UPC. He is a visiting investigator at the University of Utrecht (1990, Prof. Sluyters) and at the Scientific Park of Barcelona (2003–2004). His research fields are electrochemistry, interphases, materials, and organized thin films, such as Langmuir and LB films and their nanomechanical or redox properties, and biomimetic membranes. He has conducted several national and European projects and published around one hundred papers and book chapters.