Professor Luis Liz Marzán, from the Department of Physical Chemistry of the University of Vigo, will become Scientific Director of CIC biomaGUNE replacing Prof. Manuel Martin Lomas in January 2013. Prof. Liz Marzán has an extensive experience in the field of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science and has been leading for more than 15 years the Colloidal Chemistry Research Group at the University of Vigo. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Optical Society of America, editor of the journal Langmuir, of the American Chemical Society, and has received relevant international scientific awards as the Humboldt Research Award, the DuPont Science Award, the Physical Chemistry Award of the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry, the Burdinola Award and the ACS Nano Lectureship Award.