Dr Albert Poater (1979) finished the PhD in Chemistry in 2006, supervised by Miquel Duran and Miquel Solà, at the University of Girona. After periods in Chile with Alejandro Toro-Labbé; in Montpellier with Odile Eisenstein and a long postdoc in University of Salerno with Luigi Cavallo, in 2010 he became an independent researcher as Ramón y Cajal and JIN in Girona, apart from Visiting Researcher at KAUST in Saudi Arabia, and with Remi Chauvin at LCC-CNRS in Toulouse. As a whole, Dr. Poater has published over 200 papers, collecting over 8000 citations (H = 50), in DFT calculations on the mechanism of inorganic and organometallic catalysis; and predictive catalysis by tools to describe the reactivity. The computational research includes olefin metathesis by Ru-based catalysts or gold chemistry to undertake organometallic reactions, and currently switching to green chemistry to remove and/or not generate CO2: either water oxidation catalysis or alcohol transformation to aldehydes with generation of H2 as energy source. He serves as Editor and Board Member of several journals; and in 2019 he received the ICREA Academia Award.