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Antonio Salinas, PhD in Chemical Sciences, is Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid, UCM, Spain, and head of the research group on smart biomaterials, GIBI, integrated in CIBER-BBN and in IIS of the Hospital 12 de Octubre, imas12. He researches on the development and characterisation of new nanostructured biomaterials based on bioceramics for applications in tissue engineering and bone regenerative medicine. He is author of more than 120 peer-reviewed publications that were cited about 6000 times with h-index of 43 and i10 index of 83 (Google Scholar). According to the bibliometric portal of the UCM (bibliometria.ucm.es/inicio) he is ranked 112^th out of 3300 Professors and according to the DIH group (grupodih.info), he is the 5^th most cited Spanish researcher in Biomaterials. and 7^th in Biomedical Engineering. He participated in more than 30 research projects, in 12 of them as principal investigator, which have received more than 1,000,000 Euros. He is currently principal investigator of the research project on health “Design of a new biomaterial with osteoinductive potential for the treatment of bone defects”. He was visiting professor at the Universities of Florida, Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris, Modena and Aveiro and at the College de France and the RMS Foundation in Switzerland. Author of 12 book chapters and one book. He has also presented more than 130 conference papers, 5 Keynotes lectures and 15 invited lectures. He is co-inventor of 2 patents and has carried out about 10 technical advisory studies for Stafford Miller and AENOR. He is a member of the editorial board of Materials, Biomolecules and European Journal of Materials and editor of special issues of Chemical Engineering Journal, Materials and Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.  He has supervised 9 doctoral theses, 20 Master’s and Bachelor’s theses, and more than fifty collaboration and excellence scholarship holders. He has taught General Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry and Biomaterials, the latter in Materials Engineering, Pharmacy, PhD courses, Masters in Spain and Italy, and in 7 courses at the Latin American of the Complutense Latin American School in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Peru, and also in a Summer School at the University of Chile. He received the award for the best Rapid Fire Presentation at the World Congress on Biomaterials held in Chengdu in 2012 and he is a Corresponding Academician Royal National Academy of Pharmacy.