Dr. Jordi Payá is a Full Professor at the Department of Construction Engineering and Civil Engineering Projects and member of the Institute of Science and Technology of Concrete (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain). He obtained his bachelor's degree and extraordinary award (1986) from the Faculty of Chemistry at the Universitat de València and his doctorate and extraordinary doctorate award (1990) from the Universitat de València. He took training in chemistry in the specialty of inorganic chemistry (organometallic chemistry) and research in these fields during the doctoral and postdoctoral stages. During his time as a professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València (since 1989), he specialized in the chemistry of construction materials. Since 1990, he has been carrying out research in the field of construction materials and the environment. His areas of interest include the evaluation of the pozzolanic reactivity of mineral additions, recovery of waste in the manufacture of construction materials, new binders based on alkaline activation, development and implementation of microstructural characterization techniques for binders and carbon footprint of inorganic binders.