Edson Roberto Leite is currently a Professor in the Chemistry Department at the Federal University of São Carlos (in São Carlos, SP-Brazil) and Scientific Director of the National Laboratory o Nanotchenology at Centro Nacional de Pesquisa em Energia e Materiais (CNPEM). He received his BS and MS degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from the Federal University of São Carlos in 1988 and 1990, respectively. In 1988, he was with the 3M of Brazil, where he engaged in the research and development of electronics and telecommunications products and received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Federal University of São Carlos in 1993. In January 1994, he joined Chemistry Department at the Federal University of São Carlos. From 1998 to 1999, Edson was Visiting Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. His current research interests include the synthesis and growth process of inorganic nanoparticles by chemical approaches, materials characterization by electron microscopy, the thermal stability of nanostructured materials and materials for photoelectrochemistry devices, and solar water splitting. He has published more than 400 scientific papers and edited three books (related to materials for energy) and is co-author of one book (related to nucleation and growth process in nanocrystals). He also received several awards, including the Scopus Prize for the remarkable scientific production from Elsevier /CAPES(2006) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for the development of scientific research related to the thermal stability of ceramics nanosystem from John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2009). In 2012, Edson was nominated Member of the Would Academy of Ceramics and Member of the Science Academy of the São Paulo State. In 2014, he was Co-Chair of the MRS Spring in San Francisco, CA. In 2019 he was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC).