Eduardo Bringa has an undergraduate Physics degree from Instituto Balseiro (Argentina), and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Virginia (UVa, USA). He was staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL, USA). Currently he is a Principal Researcher in CONICET, at the Universidad de Mendoza (Argentina), where he is the director of the SIMAF group (Simulations in Materials, Astrophysics and Physics). He is also a full professor at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina). He is interested in nanotechnology, radiation damage, materials under extreme conditions, and high-performance computing and has published more than 150 articles on those topics.