Daniel Peralta-Salas is a senior scientific researcher at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (ICMAT) in Madrid (Spain). Since 2017 he is the Chair of the Group "Differential Geometry and Geometric Mechanics". He got a PhD in Mathematical Physics at Complutense University (Madrid, Spain) in 2006 and after postdoctoral positions he joined the ICMAT in 2010. He has published about 90 research articles in high profile journals, such as Annals of Mathematics, Acta Mathematica or Duke Mathematical Journal, and has been an invited speaker in more than 100 international conferences, seminars and courses. Among his main distinctions we highlight the Plenary Lecture he gave at the European Congress of Mathematics in 2016 (Berlin, Germany), the Barcelona Dynamical Systems Prize (2015) and the Floer Lectures at the Floer Center of Geometry in 2019 (Bochum, Germany). During the period 2014-2019 he was the PI of the Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) "Invariant manifolds in Dynamical Systems and PDE". His research lines concern the connections and interplay between dynamical systems, partial differential equations and differential geometry. This includes different topics in fluid mechanics, spectral theory, conservative dynamics and geometric analysis.