Dr. Yoel Rodríguez is a theoretical biophysicist and Professor of Physics and Chemistry in CUNY’s Hostos Community College. He is also a visiting professor of the Pharmacological Sciences Department at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS). In addition, he is the Coordinator of the Joint Dual Engineering Degree Program with The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering of CUNY. He received his B.S. degree in Physical Chemistry from Havana University, and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Biophysics at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Afterwards, he completed his postdoctoral training at ISMMS, New York in Computational Biophysics. He has published several peer-reviewed research articles and presented at numerous conferences. Dr. Rodríguez’s research is directed toward applying Computational Theoretical Biophysics approaches to a better understanding of fundamental molecular mechanisms in biological processes with implications in cancer, neurodegenerative disorders and cardiovascular diseases. He has received multiple educational and research grants from different agencies, including the National Science Foundation (NSF S-STEM, PI) and the National Institute of Health. Dr. Rodríguez has been the recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Scholar award in the 2016-2017 Academic Year. He has also been awarded the CUNY Chancellor’s Research Fellowship twice, in the 2015-2016 and 2017-2018 academic years. Dr. Rodríguez is also captivated by STEM pedagogical research and mentoring of undergraduate students. His mentees have earned multiple awards at undergraduate STEM conferences, and several have continued to earn graduate degrees in the field of science and engineering.