Dr Juan Z. Dávalos-Prado is a Research Scientist at the Department of Chemical Atmospheric and Climate, Instituto Química-Física "Blas Cabrera", CSIC-Madrid-Spain. He completed his PhD studies in Chemical Physics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and has been awarded "Cum laude". He has directed several  Research Projects. He has published 145 papers in various journals. His teaching disciplines include Computational Chemistry, Spectroscopic Surface Analysis, Calorimetric techniques, Antioxidants and the Structure of Natural Products and his interests include Energetic and molecular reactivity, kinetic/dynamic atmospheric reactions and DFT and ab initio calculations.