Frederico Fiuza is Professor of Physics at Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), University of Lisbon. He obtained his MSc degree in Physics and his PhD degree in Plasma Physics from Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST, Portugal) in 2007 and 2012, respectively. Before re-joining IST in 2023, he was a Senior Staff Scientist and Theory Group Leader at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory between 2015 and 2023, and a Lawrence Fellow at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory between 2012 and 2015. He is the founder and scientific coordinator of the Group of Astrophysical Plasmas at the Institute for Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion at IST. His research focuses on plasma theory and massively parallel kinetic simulations towards applications in plasma and laboratory astrophysics, inertial confinement fusion, and compact plasma-based accelerators. Frederico has authored more than 100 papers in international refereed journals and two patents, has given invited and plenary talks at all the major conferences in the field. He has supervised 10 postdoctoral fellows, 5 PhD Thesis and more than 20 graduate and undergraduate students, whose work has been recognized by several prizes and prestigious fellowships. He was PI in 9 projects funded by the USA Department of Energy and National Science Foundation as well as the European Research Council (ERC) and in multiple supercomputing projects totalling more than 500 million computing core-hours awarded. Frederico's work has been recognized with APS and EPS Lev Landau and Lyman Spitzer Jr. Award in 2024, the APS John Dawson Award in 2020, the APS Thomas H. Stix Award in 2018, the DOE Early Career Award in 2017, and the European Physical Society PhD Research Award in 2013. In 2023, he was elected APS Fellow by the American Physical Society and named Kavli Fellow by the US National Academy of Sciences.