Lorenzo Malerba holdsa MScin NuclearEngineering from Politecnico di Milano and a PhDin Industrial Engineering from UniversidadPolitécnicade Madrid, in bothcasesspecialisingin nuclearmaterials. After workingfor 18 yearsatthe BelgianNuclearResearch Centre, SCK•CEN, wherehe createdand led a group of structuralnuclearmaterialsmodellingand microstructure, since2018 Lorenzo Malerba isResearch Professor atCIEMAT. Since2014 he coordinatesthe Joint Programmeon NuclearMaterialsof the EuropeanEnergy Research Alliance (EERA JPNM), dedicatedto coordinatingresearch on materialsfor sustainablenuclearenergyin Europe. He recentlyalsocoordinatedthe Euratom-fundedprojects M4F (MultiscaleModellingfor Fusion and Fissionmaterials) and ORIENT-NM (Organisation of the EuropeanResearch Community on NuclearMaterials). Since1st October2024 he coordinatesCONNECT-NM (Coordinationof the EuropeanResearch Community on NuclearMaterialsfor Energy Innovation), the Co-fundedEuropeanPartnership on nuclearmaterials, whichwilllast for fiveyears. He authoredor co-authoredabout150 peer-reviewedarticles and 60 proceedingpapers, aswellas11 book chapters, summingup an H-indexof 56 accordingto Google Scholar.