**About the Editor**

**Davide Ferri** studied industrial chemistry at the University of Milano (Italy) and received his PhD in chemistry at the ETH Zurich in 2002. After a short experience at Bruker Optics GmbH (Switzerland), he was assistant professor at ETH Zurich, and then group head at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology (Empa). He is currently head of the group Applied Catalysis and Spectroscopy at the Paul Scherrer Institut (Switzerland). His interests span from environmental catalysts to liquid phase catalyzed reactions and the development of in situ/operando experiments. He uses vibrational spectroscopies in combination with X-ray-based methods.
