Secondary Address: FMF - Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum Stefan-Meier-Strasse 21, 79104 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Dr. Rafael Luque is currently a Ramon y Cajal fellow in the Departamento de Quimica Organica of Universidad de Cordoba (UCO) in Spain. He got his Ph.D from Universidad de Cordoba (2002-2005), spending 9 months in the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence at York University under the supervision of Dr. Duncan Macquarrie. Following a 3 year postdoctoral in the Green Chemistry Centre under the supervision of Prof. James Clark (2005-2008), he returned back to UCO where he was recently granted a prestigious Ramon y Cajal Fellowship (2009-2014) coming up second at a national level in the broad area of Chemistry. Dr. Luque is co-author of more than 75 publications (2005-2010, h index= 14), 2 patents, more than 15 book chapters and 80+ international conference contributions (>15 oral presentations) including several invited and keynote speeches at International conferences. His work has received more than 450 citations (2005-2010) and in the past 5 years, with many recognitions to his work as hot articles, highlights in synfacts and other publications, press articles and journal covers. Dr. Luque is editor-in-chief of the book Handbook of biofuels production: processes and technologies to be published by Woodhead publishing/CRC Press in September 2010. Currently, Dr. Luque is also guest editor of a special issue of C-heteroatom couplings for the journal Current Organic Synthesis and co-editor (with Prof. Jose Goldemberg) of a biofuels themed issue for the journal Energy and Environmental Science from the RSC. His research interests are Green Chemistry applied to nanomaterials, supported metal/metal oxide nanoparticles on porous materials, heterogeneous catalysis and biofuels. CSIC, Spain