Murugan Ramalingam is a Distinguished Professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) (Spain), Research Professor at the IKERBASQUE (Basque Foundation for Science) and Chief Scientific Officer at the Basque Innoshapes, BIC Araba. Concurrently, he is an affiliated faculty at Bioaraba Health Research Institute and at CIBER-BBN, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Spain), an Adjunct Professor at Chengdu University (China) and Benzhou Medical University (China), and a Visiting Professor at Furtwangen University (Germany) and at Atılım University (Turkey). He has also held an Adjunct Professor at Tohoku University (Japan), Professeur des Universite at Université de Strasbourg (France), and High-End Foreign Expert at Chengdu University (China). Prior to this, he worked at the Dankook University (South Korea), at the Université de Strasbourg (France) as Associate Professor, and at the WPI Advanced Institute for Materials Research (Japan) as Assistant Professor. He has also worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), under the U.S. National Academies Associateship program. He is a recipient of CSIR Fellowship (India), Singapore Millennium Fellowship (SMF), NRC National Academies (USA), Nationale Professeur des Universités (France), ASEM-DUO Professorship (South Korea), High-End Foreign Expert Professorship (China), Ikerbasque Professorship (Spain),ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-9792