Vicente Aboites, FInstP carried out studies of physics at the Metropolitan University in Mexico City and of philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, U.K.. He carried out his doctoral work at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxon, and presented his thesis at the University of Essex in England. He performed specialization studies at the University of Paris VI and post-doctoral work at the University of Berlin. He was a fellow Maria Curie from the European Community at the Imperial College of London. In 1986, he founded the Lasers Laboratory at the Center for Research in Optics in Mexico of which he is the Head and a researcher. Prof. Aboites was visiting researcher at the Group of Dynamic Systems of the Center for Research in Mathematics (CIMAT) among other national and international institutions. He has published 16 books and more than 200 international rigorous research papers, in addition to hundreds of papers in several national newspapers. He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics, U.K., and a member of the Mexican Academy of Science.