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Javier Trujillo Bueno has a doctorate in Physics from the University of Göttingen (Germany) and is Research Professor of the Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). He has broad experience in the field of solar physics, and specifically in solar magnetism, theoretical and observational spectropolarimetry, the quantum theory of light polarization, radiative transfer in magnetized plasmas, and numerical simulations. In 2006 the Academy of Sciences of the University of Göttingen granted him the prestigious Gauss Professorship, by means of which he carried out teaching and research activities in that University. He is presently Affiliate Scientist of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and of the High Altitude Observatoty (HAO), located in Boulder (Colorado; USA), where he carries out regular working visits. For the last 30 years he has pursued the development and application of novel methods, based on optically polarized atoms, to investigate the magnetism of the solar atmosphere, which have led to many important publications in journals like Nature, Physical Review Letters, the Astrophysical Journal and Astronomy & Astrophysics. Since 2011, he is one of the Principal Investigators of CLASP (Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha SpectroPolarimeter), a series of NASA sounding rocket experiments led by USA, Japan, Spain and France, motivated by the theoretical research of Prof. Trujillo Bueno and his international group. He is recipient of two NASA Group Achievement Awards. These, and other achievements, have served to make him the first Spanish scientist to obtain an ERC Advanced Grant in the field of “Science of the Universe”.