J. L. Alonso-Gómez was born in Vigo, Spain in 1977. He obtained a B.S. degree in 2001 from the University of Vigo and a Ph.D. degree in 2006 from the same university under the supervision of M. Cid. After carrying out postdoctoral work with F. Diederich at ETH Zurich until early 2009, he was an invited scientist at Columbia University in the group of N. Berova through late 2009. Back to the University of Vigo in 2010 he is since a senior researcher at the S3 group.

His focus is chirality, aiming at controlling the chiroptical responses of macromolecules as well as nanoparticles in order to enable the design of functional materials such as chiral charge-transfer chromophores, chiral magnets, chiral semiconductors or fluorophores exhibiting circularly polarized luminescence.