Felix Fernandez-Alonso is the Head of the Molecular Spectroscopy Group at the ISIS Pulsed Neutron and Muon Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, a role that he has combined with professorial appointments at University College London in the United Kingdom and the University of Rome in Italy. He has a PhD from Stanford University, following undergraduate studies at Hamilton College and Imperial College London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a member of its Neutron Scattering Group Committee. Over the past decade, he and his group have been leading efforts at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory to develop new instrumentation and methods, as well as to foster the use of state-of-the-art neutron spectroscopy and computational modeling for materials discovery, including the direct involvement of the industrial sector. With 200+ publications, current research projects range from the study of intercalation phenomena in nanostructured and soft layered media to energy transport and storage in carbon-based and hybrid organic-inorganic materials. Jointly with David Price, Felix has been the editor of a new book series on the fundamentals and applications of neutron scattering, a global venture involving academic and industrial researchers from 20+ countries across 5 continents.