Manuel Franco Sevilla did his undergraduate studies at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid and earned his PhD from Stanford University. During his PhD he worked on the BaBar experiment at SLAC where he found evidence for an excess of B→D(*)τν decays that challenges the Standard Model’s fundamental principle of lepton universality. As a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, he performed searches for Supersymmetry and worked on the upgrade of the Cathode Strip Chambers in the CMS muon system. Currently at LHCb, his research focuses on flavor physics, particularly searches for lepton universality violation, as well as the development of the readout electronics for the Upstream Tracker detector.