Adilson Alves de Freitas obtained his degree in Chemistry in 1998 from the Institute of Chemistry at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. He completed his MSc in 2001, focusing on the thermodynamics of the solubilization of organic solutes in surfactant micelles, and his PhD in Physical Chemistry in 2005, with a thesis on the thermodynamics, kinetics, and photophysics of natural pigments in micellar environments, both at USP. He has extensive experience in Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting (picosecond resolution) and ultrafast time-resolved femtosecond fluorescence Up-conversion techniques. Since 2014, he has been actively working on molecular dynamics simulations of dense ionic fluids. His research interests include the kinetics and thermodynamics of ultrafast processes in organized systems; the chemistry and photophysics of natural pigments; the structure and dynamics of concentrated electrolytes and ionic liquids; cement chemistry; and linear free energy relationships (LFERs).