Prof. Denis Jacquemin received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Namur in 1998, before moving to the University of Florida for his postdoctoral stay. He is currently full professor at the University of Nantes (France). His research is focused on modeling electronically excited-state processes in organic and inorganic dyes as well as photochromic using a large panel of ab initio approaches. His group collaborates with many experimental and theoretical groups. He is the author of more than 550 scientific papers. He has been an ERC grantee (2011–2016), a member of Institut Universitaire de France (2012–2017), and he received the WATOC's Dirac Medal (2014).