Juan J. Vilatela is head of the Multifunctional Nanocomposites group. He is also founder and current CTO of Floatech, a company commercializing Si nanotextile anodes for the next generation Lithium-ion batteries. Dr. Juan José Vilatela García has a Ph.D. from the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy of the University of Cambridge (2009). He has devoted his scientific career to the development of methods for synthesis and assembly of 1D nanomaterials into macroscopic nanotextiles with high-performance properties for structural and energy applications. He has been awarded the 2016 young investigator award by the European Society for Composite Materials and the 2018 "Miguel Catalán" under 40 investigator award by the Madrid Regional Government. He has supervised 9 Ph.D. thesis, is the author of over 130 papers and 15 patents (5 industrially exploited). He a recipient of an ERC Consolidator Grant, member of the Carbon Hub, and previous coordinator of several European projects and industrial contracts with international companies from the transport sector. Since 2014, his has been an associate lecturer at the Carlos III de Madrid University and at the Technical University of Madrid in its Airbus-UPM master’s programme.