Dr.. JAVIER CREMADES UGARTE is a Ph.D. in pharmacy and a full professor of botany at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of A Coruña (UDC). Since 2008, he has been the coordinator by the UDC of the Galician Interuniversity Master in Aquaculture. He is part of the Coastal Biology research group (BioCost) at the University of A Coruña, within which he is responsible for the applied phycology laboratory of the Center for Applied Scientific Research (CICA). In recent years, his work has focused on issues related to the biology, sustainable exploitation, cultivation, and applications of marine macroalgae of economic interest present on the coasts of Galicia, with a special dedication to the development of integrated multitrophic aquaculture systems (IMTA). He is also the main promoter of the technology-based company Phycosem Marine Agronomy S.L., which emerged within the UDC. He is teaching different undergraduate subjects in biology and in the Galician Interuniversity master's degree programs in Marine Biology and Aquaculture. He has supervised six Ph.D. candidates and is the author of several books and monographs as well as more than a hundred papers published in scientific journals, both national and international included in the JCR, also paying special attention to all the issues that have to do with the scientific dissemination of several aspects of the seaweeds of the Iberian coasts.