Dr. Roberto Gomes de Aguiar Veiga has been a Professor of Materials Engineering at the Federal University of ABC, Brazil, since 2016. He earned a degree in Physics from the Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil, in 2005 and a PhD in Materials Science from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France, in 2011. From 2012 to 2016, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Dr. Veiga has expertise in first-principle calculations, classical molecular dynamics, and Monte Carlo simulations, with a broad interest in numerical methods applied to the multiscale computational modeling of materials.