Alberto Orfao is currently Full Professor of the Department of Medicine and Scientific Director of both the General Cytometry Service and the Cell sorting Service at the University of Salamanca, the Spanish National DNA Bank (Ministry of Economy and Competitivity) and the Network of Tumor Biobanks of Castilla y Leon (Spain). His research activities are based on his position as one of the Principal Investigators at the Cancer Research Center of Salamanca and they are mainly focussed on the field of hematological malignancies and the relationship between the immune system and cancer. He has contributed to >620 publications and book chapters, being co-author of >535 scientific papers in international journals, with an overall h-index of 60 and more than 14,500 accumulated citations; in addition, he is inventor of 33 (granted/pending) patents. He has received over 40 awards and recognitions including the Berend Howen and the Wallace Coulter awards of the International Society for Laboratory Hematology and the International Society for Clinical Cytometry, respectively, and the 2012 Castilla and Leon Prize for Scientific and Technical Research. He is currently member of the external scientific committees of several research institutions in Brasil, Spain and other European countries, and he is member of multiple national and international scientific evaluation panels and groups, including the EuroFlow Consortium (cochair), European Scientific Foundation for Laboratory Hemato-Oncology (ESLHO), the European Leukemia Net (ELN) and the TiMaScan Consortium. He is also member of the editorial board of several scientific journals, such as Leukemia, Human Genetics and Cytometry B.