Abderrazzak Douhal, a full professor of physical chemistry at the University of Castilla La Mancha (UCLM, Toledo), completed his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry at the University of Kadi Ayyad (Marrakech). Since 1998, he has headed the femtoscience and microscopy research group at UCLM (https://www.uclm.es/grupos/fmg), focusing his research on the study of photoevents in condensed-phase and advanced materials (silica-based materials, MOFs, COFs, HOFs, and perovskites). In 2018, he was awarded the Elsevier Lecture Award from the Japanese Photochemistry Association.