Dr. Patrick Palmeri is a FRS-FNRS research associate and part-time lecturer at University of Mons – UMONS in Belgium. He earned his PhD degree in physics at University of Mons-Hainaut (Belgium) in 1996. During the period 1996-1997, he was a postdoc researcher at Laboratoire Aimé Cotton – CNRS II in France. In 1997, he was awarded with the Académie Royale de Belgique’s Annual Prize for his PhD thesis. Then, he came back to Belgium as a FRS-FNRS collaborateur scientifique at University of Mons-Hainaut during the period 1998-2001. He then spent four years (2001-2004) as a University of Maryland’s research associate at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in the USA. In 2002, he was awarded with the Adolphe Wetrems Prize granted by the Académie Royale de Belgique for his high quality scientific works. He was then awarded a BELSPO return grant that permitted him to return to University of Mons-Hainaut as a research associate in 2004. In 2005, he got is permanent position as a FRS-FNRS research associate at University of Mons – UMONS. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and a member of the Belgian National European Southern Observatory Committee (BNEC). Finally, he is a co-authors of 242 peer review papers related to atomic structure and processes with astrophysical and plasma applications with an h index of 40 and an i10 index of 132 according to Google Scholar.