Luís L. Alves has a PhD in Physics from the Lisbon Technical University (Portugal, 1993), was a postdoctoral fellow at Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas (France, 1997) and obtained the title of "Agregado" in Engineering Physics by the Lisbon Technical University (Portugal, 2006). He is Full Professor in the Department of Physics of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), a former coordinator of the Scientific Domain of Plasma Physics, Lasers and Nuclear Fusion of the same department and a former Head of this department. He is Deputy Head of IST, as Coordinator of the Programme Shaping the Future (https://shapingthefuture.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/). He is the Head of group N-Plasmas Reactive: Modelling and Engineering (N-PRiME) with Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, where is also serves as member of the Governing Board, and member of the Governing Board of the Advanced Programme in Plasma Science and Engineering (APPLAuSE 2020). His research focuses on the modelling and simulation of low-temperature plasmas, using a research methodology that involves the problem formulation, the development, verification and benchmarking of numerical tools, and the validation of the physical models by comparison with the experiment. Over the years he has developed many different numerical codes, extending from the numerical solution of the electron Boltzmann equation to the development of multi-dimensional dynamic models for reactive gas/plasma systems of interest for material science, biological and environmental applications. He has co-authored over 250 technical publications, including about 100 journal papers. He was guest editor of 8 special issues in international journals, gave over 50 invited lectures at national and international conferences, and has 10 patents registered (6 granted). He supervises(d) 10 PhD theses and 20 MSc/BSc theses/projects. He is responsible for the development of the LisbOn KInetics (LoKI) simulation tool (https://nprime.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/loki/). Currently, he is member of the Editorial Board of Plasma Sources Science and Technology.