José M. Rivera obtained his B.S. in chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras in 1995 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 2000 working under the guidance of Julius Rebek, Jr. After a postdoctoral experience in the group of Jeffery Kelly at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, he moved back to the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras in 2002 where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests are focused on supramolecular science, in particular, on the use guanine derivatives to elucidate fundamental self-assembly phenomena and to develop multifunctional nanostructures for biomedical applications.