Daniel Hermida-Merino is a materials science graduate in Physical Chemistry at the University of Vigo who completed a PhD in Thermo-responsive microphase separated supramolecular polyurethanes, at the University of Reading under the supervision of Prof. Ian Hamley and Prof. Wayne Hayes. He then joined DUBBLE at ESRF as a post-doctoral fellow, firstly from Eindhoven Technical University, and subsequently from the Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI) to promote the research of polymer materials under processing conditions. He is been appointed as the beamline scientist responsible for the Dutch–Belgium SAXS/WAXS beamline (BM26b) at ESRF. and is employed by the Netherlands Council for Scientific Research (NWO).