Ricardo A. Torres-Palma is graduated in Chemistry and Master in Chemistry by Universidad del Valle, Colombia. He received the PhD in Chemistry from the University of Savoie in France. He was post-doctoral researcher in Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto (Canada). He is Senior Researcher according to Minciencias (Colombia) and leader of the Research Group on Environmental Remediation and Biocatalysis of the University of Antioquia (Category A1, Minciencias). He has dedicated his scientific life to the understanding and development of water treatment systems through electrochemical, photochemical and sonochemical processes, among others. He was elected the Afro-Colombian of the year in the Colombian Academy in 2012 and 2018. He acts as an expert evaluator of the National Accreditation Council of the Ministry of National Education, as well as in more than 20 international journals. He has been Guest Editor for Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Journal of Hazardous Materials and Environmental Science and Pollution Research. He is part of the scientific committee of renowned international congresses such as: European Conference on Environmental Applications of Advanced Oxidation Processes, Asia-Oceania Sonochemical Society Conference, Iberoamerican Conference on Advanced Oxidation Technologies and European meeting on Solar Chemistry and Photocatalysis: Environmental Applications.