**About the Special Issue Editor**

**Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton** was awarded a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain) in 1998, and an MSc in Mobile Communications from the Eurecom Institute (Sophia Antipolis, France). From 1998 to 2010 he worked as a research engineer, mostly in the design of signal processing algorithms for cellphone chips. Ivan has 40 patents from his engineering period. He moved back into academia as a PhD student in 2010. In 2014 he obtained his PhD in physics from Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). Since 2014, has Ivan worked in the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Karlsruhe, Germany). In his physics research, he studies light–matter interactions by means of symmetries and conservation laws. Chirality in electromagnetic interactions is one of Ivan's main research themes, and includes the search for improved theoretical insights as well as their subsequent practical application, for example, for the enhanced sensing of chiral molecules. The symmetry conditions for the suppression of the backscattering of light, and its engineering in realistic systems like solar cells, has also been a recurring theme in Ivan's research. Lately, Ivan is becoming increasingly interested in the quantification of symmetry breaking.
