Dr. Luca Bindi holds the Chair of Mineralogy and Crystallography and is the Head of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Florence, Italy. He is also a research associate at the Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse of the National Research Council (Italy) (CNR). Dr. Luca Bindi obtained his Ph.D. in Mineralogy and Petrology from the University of Florence and Perugia in 2001 and was a post-doctoral researcher in mineralogical crystallography at the University of Florence from 2000 to 2004. He has received national and international scientific awards, including the President of the Republic Prize 2015 of the National Academy of Lincei (Video of Ceremony). Dr. Luca Bindi also discovered natural quasicrystals in 2009, showing they can form spontaneously in nature and remain stable for geological times.