Prof. Paulo P. Freitas (born 1958) received his Ph.D in Solid State Physics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1986, followed a postdoctoral stay at IBM Watson Research Labs. He has been a Full Professor at the Physics Department of Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, the leader of the Magnetics & Spintronics group and Director of INESC-MN. Since 2009 he joined the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL-Braga) where he is a deputy director. He received several awards and distinctions related to his work on magnetoresistive biochips and bioelectronics, magnetoresistive sensors, MRAMS, and read heads for ultra high density recording. He is author of more than 350 scientific articles, two patents and inventor of a bioelectronic device. Prof. Freitas supervised 18 PhD students, more than 20 post-doctoral fellows, and develops an intense educational mission to train and coach new scientists and engineers.