José Antonio Jimenez Dobado received his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Granada in 1994. From 1995 to 1997, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Zurich University and Helsinki University. He joined the Department of Organic Chemistry at the University of Granada as a postdoctoral researcher from 1997 to 1998, Associate Professor from 1998 to 2002, and Profesor since 2003. In that period, he spent also several months at McMaster University and Helsinki University. His area of research is in computational Chemistry, and he directs the Molecular Modelling and Design research group financed (FQM-174) by the Andalusian Government.