Stefano Giordano was born in Genoa, Italy, on October 14, 1971. He received the “Laurea” degree in electronic engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in materials science from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2000. He subsequently joined the Department of Physics of the University of Cagliari, Italy. Since October 2010, he has been CNRS Senior Researcher at the Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology (IEMN), Villeneuve d’Ascq, France. He is working within the AIMAN team, which is part of the International Associated Laboratory (LIA) LEMAC/LICS on Critical and Supercritical Phenomena in Functional Electronics, Acoustics and Fluidics. His research interests include homogenization methods for heterogeneous materials and structures, multiphysics and multiscale modeling of the thermo-magneto-electro-elastic response of multiferroic materials and spintronic structures, and statistical mechanics of small systems. He has authored or co-authored over 100 papers in leading journals on these topics, five invited chapters in edited books, and one textbook.