Andreu Cabot received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, in 2003. He was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Prof. A. Paul Alivisatos Group, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, from 2004 to 2007. In 2009, he formed the Functional Nanomaterials Group and joined the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, Barcelona, where he is currently an ICREA Research Professor. His current research interests include the design and preparation of nanomaterials, the characterization of their functional properties, and their use in the field of energy conversion.