Ricardo G. Simões is an Invited Assistant Professor at Faculdade de Ciências of the Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL). He completed his PhD in Chemistry in 2013, with a specialization in Physical-Chemistry, studying structure-energetics relations in 4’-hydroxybenzaldehyde and simvastatin. His research is focused on the study of crystallization processes and polymorphism. He co-authored 13 articles, with 159 citations and an h-index of 8, on topics including crystallization, pharmaceutical compounds, thermodynamics, polymorphism, crystal engineering and solubility. In 2016 he was accepted as a postdoc researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Belgium, gaining experience on the crystallization of organic compounds in thin-films and in synchrotron radiation X-ray diffraction measurements (at the BESSY II facilities in Berlin Germany). From 2017 onwards he joined the Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE), Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, as a researcher analyzing how small variations in molecular structure impact the crystal packing, polymorphic behavior, and properties of organic molecular materials. From 2018 to 2022 he incorporated the Mol2Cryst Project (From Molecules to Crystals, LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-028401) aimed at understanding several aspects of polymorphism and crystallization. In 2021 he was awarded the 2020 Franzosini Award by the Subcommittee on Solubility and Equilibrium Data (SSED) of IUPAC. Ricardo G. Simões was a lecturer of the General Chemistry and Chemistry courses (laboratory classes; BSc in Geology, Physics, and Biology) and the Physical-Chemistry course (laboratory classes; BSc in Biochemistry) at FCUL. He also took part in outreach activities, such as the “Ser Cientista” program at FCUL, aimed at high-school students.