Luís O. Silva is Professor of Physics at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, since 2010, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford since 2022. He obtained his degrees (Lic. 1992, PhD 1997 and Habilitation 2005) from IST, and was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California Los Angeles from 1997 to 2001. His scientific contributions are focused in the in silico exploration of the interaction of intense beams of particles and lasers with plasmas, combining theoretical physics with massively parallel numerical simulations, in laboratory and astrophysical scenarios. He has been awarded several national and international awards and recognitions, including two ERC Advanced Grants, and election to Fellow of the American Physical Society, the European Physical Societry, the European Academy of Sciences, and to Corresponding Member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.