**Jorge Ba ˜nuelos Prieto**

Dr. Jorge Banuelos Prieto is an associate professor at the Physical Chemistry Department of ˜ the Basque Country University (UPV/EHU). He was born in 1976 and received his PhD in 2004 from the same university under the guidance of Profs. Inigo and Fernando L ˜ opez Arbeloa. From ´ then to 2006, he was an assistant lecturer, and after that lecturer until 2011, when he got his actual position in UPV/EHU. In 2006, he did a postdoctoral stay with Prof. Gion Calzaferri at Bern University (Switzerland). He belongs to the Molecular Spectroscopic Group at UPV/EHU and his main research topic is the computationally assisted design and photophysical characterization of organic fluorophores in solution and solid hosts for photonic and biophotonic applications. He has published more than a hundred research articles in reputed and indexed scientific journals, around five book chapters and supervised three doctoral thesis.
