Rui Fausto is Professor and the Coordinator of the Computational Chemistry, Spectroscopy and Thermodynamics research group at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), and Professor and the ERA-Chair holder of the Spectroscopy@IKU: Manipulating and Characterizing Molecular. Architectures: From Isolated Molecules to Molecular Crystals at the Istanbul Kultur University (Türkiye). He is the President of the Steering Committee of EUCMOS and a member of the editorial boards of several scientific journals. Throughout his career, Rui Fausto has hold prominent administrative and scientific roles in the Academia, including the presidency of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, the presidency of the Coimbra Chemistry Research Centre, and the vice-presidency of the Scientific and Directive Boards of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra. He was awarded twice the Excellence Prize in Sciences by the Portuguese Science Foundation. Rui Fausto has published or edited nearly 50 scientific books and is author of over 500 research articles mostly focusing the photochemistry of organic molecules and of matrix-isolated reactive intermediates. He is one of the pioneers in using vibrational excitation to induce chemical reactivity in organic molecules under matrix-isolation conditions, and has also an extensive and influential work on the photochemistry of reactive intermediates and quantum mechanical tunnelling. Besides science, his interests also extend to music, painting, and human rights advocacy.