Manuel Souto Salom (Valencia, 1988) is an Oportunius Research Professor and Principal Investigator at CIQUS (University of Santiago de Compostela). He is also Guest Professor at the University of Aveiro-CICECO. He did his PhD at ICMAB-CSIC (2012-2016, FPU fellow) followed by a postdoc (2017-2019) at ICMol-University of Valencia as a Juan de la Cierva fellow. In 2021, he was awarded an ERC-Starting Grant with the project ELECTROCOFS. In 2019, he started his independent research career as an Assistant Professor at the Chemistry Department of the University of Aveiro and CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials. In 2022 he was promoted to Principal Researcher (tenure, Permanent Researcher/Assoc. Prof.) at the same institution. He received, among other distinctions, the European Award on Molecular Magnetism Doctoral Thesis, the PhD Extraordinary Award and the NanoMatMol PhD Award. For over ten years of research, he has been specializing in the fields of molecular electronics and electroactive crystalline porous materials making important contributions in both fields. During his PhD (triple award-winning thesis) he designed, synthesized and characterized a new family of organic radical donor-acceptor dyads explored as molecular switches, conductors and rectifiers. His main current research interest is the design and synthesis of electroactive porous materials (MOFs and COFs) based on redox-active organic building blocks for different applications in electronics and energy storage (M. Souto et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 10912). In this direction, he has recently been awarded an ERC Starting Grant (ERC-StG) that aims at exploring a new generation of porous organic polymers (COFs), to be used as electrodes in metal-ion batteries. One of the advantages of these materials is their great versatility, because their physical properties can be modulated à la carte by chemical design. One of the major project challenges is to increase the COFs electrical conductivity (M. Souto, D.F. Perepichka, J. Mater. Chem. C 2021, 9, 10668) and to study the influence of the electrolyte and binder on the electrochemical performance (O. Luzanin et al. J. Mater. Chem. A 2023, 11, 21553). In parallel he has also developed a research line on electroactive MOFs with tuneable luminescence and electrical properties. He is first author and/or corresponding author on 24 of 39 scientific articles (+1 under review) in high-impact multidisciplinary journals (h-index = 19, citations = 896, Google Scholar) and he has contributed to 25 national and international conferences (10 invited lectures). He has experience supervising 2 postdoctoral researchers (2022-Present), 4 PhD students (2020-Present), 2 young researchers (BI), 4 Master theses in Chemistry (one marked with honours), and 7 final year projects in Chemistry. His current team is composed of 2 postdoctoral researchers, 5 PhD students, and 1 MSc student. He has been evaluator of Research Proposals for DFG (Germany) and NCN (Poland), and reviewer in journals such as J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Coord. Chem., Acc. Chem. Res., Rev., Chem. Sci., Chem. Comm., CrystEngComm, etc. He has the certificates of “Profesor Titular de Universidad (Ciencias)” (ANECA) & R3 (AEI). Group website: https://electromolmat.com/