Prof. Dr. Julio R. Sambrano is a Professor at the Modeling and Molecular Simulation Group, São Paulo State University. He holds a degree in Mathematics and a Master’s in Applied Computational Mathematics, with a focus on numerical analysis. He completed his doctorate in Chemistry at the Federal University of São Carlos in 1999. He carried out Postdoctoral and Research internships in Theoretical Chemistry groups at Universities in Spain and Italy. He served as the Scientific Director of the Brazilian Material Society in the 2014–2016 biennium. He works mainly in the area of Materials Engineering, with an emphasis on Modeling and Computational Simulation in Ceramic Materials. His work focuses on the electronic and structural properties of solids, surfaces and oxide nanotubes, adsorption processes, doping, and modeling surface reactions.