Nilton Francelosi Azevedo Neto is a Professor at the Faculty of Technology (Fatec). He holds a PhD in Materials Science, focusing his research on the deposition and characterization of thin films for electrochemical sensors and Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) applications. He has extensive expertise in reactive sputtering deposition and advanced characterization techniques, including Raman spectroscopy, UV-Vis-IR, Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), and High-Resolution X-ray Diffraction (HRXRD) using Synchrotron radiation, as well as computational simulation of the sputtering process. A member of the Brazilian Society of Optics and Photonics (SBFoton), he serves as a Guest Editor for the Special Issue "New Challenges in Thin Films and Nanotechnology" in the journal Applied Sciences.