Dr. Luis M. Rubio is Associate Professor and Principal Investigator of the Biochemistry of Nitrogen Fixation group. He was Deputy Director of CBGP (UPM-INIA) from 2016 to 2020. The work of his group focuses on biotechnological applications of nitrogenase, including improvement as biocatalyst for H2 production, and engineering nitrogen fixing cereals. Luis is an international leader in the study of nitrogenase assembly and biochemistry. He obtained an ERC Starting Grant (3% success rate in this particular call) to optimize H2 production by nitrogenase, an eco-efficient approach to biofuel production. He has received three large grants to develop nitrogen fixing cereals from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (in 2011, 2016 and 2020). He is also PI of national MINECO grants on nitrogenase research (2015-17 and 2018-20). Luis has 55 peer-reviewed publications in journals (23 from 2016 to 2021); h-index 24, c. 2000 citations, and 2 patents in nitrogenase engineering. He is a regular plenary speaker at the European Nitrogen Fixation Conference and the International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation, the most important nitrogen fixation meetings, as well as in synthetic biology, biochemistry and plant biology meetings. From 2016 to 2020, Luis has delivered 34 talks at scientific meetings and research institutions. Luis is active reviewer of grant agencies and high impact journals. He is on the Steering Committees and Scientific Advisory Boards of the European Nitrogen Fixation Conference and the International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation. He is a Committee Member of the Adam Kondorosi Academia Europaea Awards. He is on the Scientific Advisory Board of Pivot Bio Inc. He has been advisor of 10 PhD students and supervisor of more than 25 postdoctoral researchers. Luis was Visiting Professor at the University of California Berkeley (July-August 2016) and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen (July 2019).