Mauro Stener was born at Trieste (Italy) on 13th June 1967, he obtained the “Maturita’ Scientifica” (Liceo Galileo Galilei – Trieste) in summer 1986 with score 60/60. Then he attended the Chemistry course at University of Trieste, where he graduated cum laude in chemistry in March 1992 with a thesis supervised by Prof. N. Rahman. In 1995 he completed his PhD in Theoretical Chemistry at University of Trieste under the supervision of Prof. P. Decleva, with a dissertation on the application of the Density Functional Theory to excited states of atoms and molecules. In 1996 M. Stener spent one Postdoctoral year at the "Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie" of the Technischen Universität München (Germany), within the project "Human Capital Mobility", under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Notker Rösch. During this period M. Stener performed a research activity on Relativistic Density Functional Theory applied to metal clusters. Starting from april 1998 up to November 2006 M. Stener has been Assistant Professor ("Ricercatore") of Physical Chemistry at University of Trieste, where he was involved in research activity of theoretical and computational chemistry, in particular in the development of new Density Functional methods and algorithms for the study of photoionization and photoabsorption in molecules and clusters, as well as in application of computational methods to problems of inorganic and cluster chemistry. Starting from December 2006 up to now, Mauro Stener is Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Trieste. Prof. M. Stener is author of 152 papers in international ISI journals with referee, and gave 88 contributions (posters and talks) at conferences or institutions.