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Josep M. Poblet was awarded his degree in Chemistry in 1979 from the University of Barcelona. From the same university he obtained his PhD degree in 1983 on theoretical studies of kinetic isotopes effects in organic reactions under the supervision of Professor Enric Canadell. In 1984, he made a postdoctoral research stay with Professor Marc Bénard at the Strasbourg University, where he had the opportunity to learn about the computational modelling of inorganic systems. He became Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry at the Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Spain) in 1986. Since 2001 he is Professor of Physical Chemistry at this university. He made a research stay in the group of Professors Keiji Morokuma and Jamal Musaev at the Emory University in 2004 and has been Director of the Physical and Inorganic Chemistry Department for 12 years. He has published about 250 peer-review and has supervised 18 doctoral theses. Josep M. Poblet was awarded with the 2012 Physical Chemistry award of the "Real Sociedad Española de Química" and was named Distinguished Professor of the University Rovira i Virgili in 2014. In 2015, he was awarded with the ICREA ACADEMIA prize for research excellence. His current research focusses on theoretical inorganic chemistry with particular interest in the electronic structure, reactivity and self-assembly of complex systems. He has extensive experience in the computational modeling of molecular metal oxides (or polyoxometalates) that are a vast family of transition metal oxides with applications in many fields, such as materials science, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, spintronics, medicine, and analytical chemistry among many others. He is also interested in the study of high temperature formation mechanisms of fullerenes and metalofullerenes and, in general, in the structural, physical and chemical properties of carbon nanoforms.