Santiago Mas-Coma is Chair Professor of Parasitology at the Parasitology Department, University of Valencia, Spain, and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Fascioliasis and Its Snail Vectors and the FAO-United Nations Reference Centre for Parasitology. He is the former president of the International Federation for Tropical Medicine, and the former president of the European Federation of Parasitologists and of the Spanish Society of Parasitology. He is a WHO Expert Member and was a WHO-STAG Committee member (Geneva) and adviser of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA, Vienna). He holds the title of Specialist in Microbiology and Parasitology and has been the principal investigator of 59 competitive projects, with more than 450 articles, 18,216 citations, an average of 46.67 citations/article (WoS), and an h-index of 63-77, according to sources. He is the most cited author in Parasitology in Spain, and is included in the top 0.2% of the most influential scientists in the world. His scientific relationships and research collaborations cover almost all countries in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, with 48 years of experience on neglected infectious diseases in developing countries, including helminthiases, protozooses, and vectors, mainly food-borne trematodiases. He is a member/honorary member of numerous societies, international/national agencies, editorial boards, and evaluation committees. He has been honored with many prizes and awards.