José A. Fernández-López is Full Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT), Spain. He is currently the Head of Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Professor Fernández-López is also the research worker responsible for the QUIMYTEC R&D group at the UPCT. His main technical and scientific achievements are the technological development of natural pigments and the reuse approach of lignocellulosic biomass as sorbent for the bioadsorptive removal of pollutants in liquid effluents.