Marcos G. Quiles is a Spanish/Brazilian researcher. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Science and Technology, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil. Quiles received his BS degree, with honours, in 2003 from the State University of Londrina (UEL), Brazil, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, in 2004 and 2009, respectively. From January to July of 2008, Quiles was a Visiting Scholar in the Perception and Neurodynamics Lab at The Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus-OH-US. From January to December of 2017, Quiles was an Academic Visitor at the University of York, York-UK. He is a merit scholar of the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq) since 2013, a distinction held by a minor fraction of the Brazilian researchers (In Portuguese: Bolsista de Produtividade em Pesquisa do CNPq). His research interests include neural networks, machine learning, complex networks, and their applications in interdisciplinary problems. In free time, Quiles loves brewing his own beer.