Dr. Maurizio Benfatto is a First Researcher at the Frascati National Laboratories (LNF) of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (Frascati, Italy) and holds a Ph.D. His research mainly focuses on XAS, electronic state calculations, and biophotons. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the Hefei University of Science and Technology, and a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of Stanford University and the theoretical group of the European Synchrotron Light Laboratory in Grenoble. He is the author of over 200 publications including articles in high-impact journals and thematic books.