Luis Saúl Esteban Pascual has a doctorate in Forestry Engineering from Madrid Polytechnic University. Since 1993 his main focus has been on R&D in various areas related to biomass production, including resource evaluation, logistics operations and pretreatment (drying, milling and densification), in addition to managing a number of pilot research facilities at CEDER-CIEMAT. He has also coordinated several EU projects as part of the LIFE and H2020 programmes. Luis Saúl is the creator of the online SIG BIORAISE tool and has made numerous contributions to specialist scientific publications, in addition to other media.