Dr. Nicolas Pazos-Perez received his Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry in 2008 from the University of Vigo (UVigo, Spain). ). His Ph.D. studies were conducted between Spain and Germany at the Colloidal Chemistry Group (CCG) supervised by Prof. Luis Liz Marzan and co-advised at the Center of Advanced Studies and Research (Caesar) in Bonn (Germany) by Prof. Michael Giersig. He has a Chemistry BSc from UVigo (Vigo, Spain 2004) where he also worked as a postdoc in 2009 at the CCG. After this period, he joined the Departmentof Physical Chemistry II at the University of Bayreuth (Germany) as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Almost 5 years later, in 2013 he moves back to Spain (Tarragona), and becomea Senior Researcher officer at Medcom Advance. Currently (since 2014) he works as senior Postdoctoral Research associate in the Zeptonic group (Department of Physical Chemistry) atthe University Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain) as a Marie Curie Fellow. With more than 35 papers in prestigious journals being one of the principal investigators in the 70 % of his publications either as a corresponding (9) or as first author (13), has an h-index of 19 with more than 1400 citations. Due to the quality of his work, 3 patents that were written in order to protect the intellectual property and their possible commercialization. Besides his relatively short scientific career, Dr. Pazos-Perez has earned the recognition from his fellow researchers for the quality and relevance of his work. Someevidence of this recognition is depicted from his scientific contributions which have been highlighted articles and hot papers ranked between the most read and most citedarticles, including also several cover pages (11). He is also an active referee of many prestigious peer review journals and has given many oral presentations at internationalconferences including invited and plenary lectures been also awarded two poster prices. He is also involved in the formation of young scientist by directing and mentoring masters students (9 defended) and doctoral thesis (2 defended and 2 in progress). Demonstrating hismanagement and leadership skills as group leader by planning experiments, problem-solving, decision making, and communication abilities together with the ability to get funding as forexample, an Intra-European Fellowship (IEF-Marie Curie), two TECNIOspring fellowships (1 as postdoc and 1 as PI) co-financed by the Marie Curie actions and the COFUND regional program and was admitted to the Ramon y Cajal program, with a total funding of 564.662 ¿ from 2014 till 2022. His work involves several research areas like the wet chemical synthesis of plasmonic nanoparticles, including their shape and size control, functionalization, coating, and their self-assembly into ordered structures at the nano and macro scales, with the aim of controlling their individual and collective plasmonic response together with the development of highly efficient SERS-encoded nanoparticles and substrates. Currently, his scientific interests are focused on the synthesis and bio-functionalization of SERS-encoded plasmonic nanomaterials,envisioning their use as SERS-based detection systems for biomedical applications.