Prof. Emilio Elizalde is a Full Professor Emeritus at the ICE-CSIC: Instituto de Ciencias del Espacio (CSIC) and at IEEC: Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya. He completed his MS studies in Physics, MS studies in Mathematics, and PhD studies in Physics at Barcelona University, and has been awarded Honorary Professorships from Tomsk TSPU University, Russia, and from TUSUR University. He has been a visiting scholar at MIT and other prestigious institutions recurrently, and received two “Invitational Fellowships of the Japan Government for Excellent Researchers”, and four “Distinctions of Merit” from the National Research Council of Spain. A Member of the European Science Foundation's “College of Expert Reviewers”, and Vice-President of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Association of Spain, he has been Principal Investigator of a large number of projects, including a European Union project (CASIMIR). He is also the recipient of the Gold Medal of TSPU University. His research interests include Theoretical Physics, Cosmology, and Special Functions, in particular, the Zeta Function.