Alfonso Blázquez-Castro I was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1974. I earned a BS degree in Biology (Department of Biology, Autonomous University of Madrid, UAM), Spain. During predoctoral years my research was in the photodynamic therapy of cancer (PDT), using cell cultures, fluorescence microscopy, molecular biology, and flow cytometry. My doctoral research dealt with the optical generation of ROS to modulate the biological response. This method, adapted for a murine skin model, increased wound healing and hair growth. From 2014 to 2016, I worked at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies through a Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSC) Fellowship. We have found that molecular oxygen can be directly excited to a reactive state by absorbing far-red photons, inducing from necrotic death to cell proliferation. From 2017 to 2019, with a second MSC Fellowship I worked on photo-ferroelectric materials at the Department of Physics of Materials (UAM). Since 2019, I enjoy an Assistant Professor position at the Department of Biology (UAM). I have more than 50 publications, an authored handbook (Fluorescence Microscopy in Life Sciences, Bentham 2017), a book as editor (Functional Analysis of DNA and Chromatin, Springer 2014), a book chapter as author, 4 patents in different development stages, congress participations, more than 10 year experience teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels, short and long term research stays (MSC Fellowships and two EMBO short-term fellowships) abroad.