Prof. Chris Binns is a Beatriz Galindo professor at UCLM and formerly professor of nanoscience at the University of Leicester, UK. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Leicester and had post-doctoral research contracts at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, U.S.A, and the National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven, U.S.A. In 1985, he became a full-time academic member of staff at the University of Leicester. He was coordinator on two framework 6 EU projects (NANOSPIN and NANOCASE). In 1995, he became professor of nanoscience at Leicester, and between 2008 and 2014, he specialized in the applications of magnetic nanoparticles to high-performance magnetic materials and their use in medicine, particularly magnetic nanoparticle hyperthermia treatment for cancer. He took up the post at UCLM in 2020 and has initiated a program to study the antiviral performance of Ag nanoparticles produced as an aerosol.