Dr. Eduard Prat is an accelerator physicist with expertise in beam dynamics for linac-based free-electron lasers (FELs). He did his PhD at DESY in Hamburg (Germany) between 2005 and 2009, where he worked with the FEL facilities FLASH and European XFEL. Since 2010 he is at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, working on the design, commissioning and development of SwissFEL. He has been a lecturer at the CERN Accelerator School (CAS) since 2019, teaching on synchrotron light sources and free-electron lasers in the Introduction to Accelerator Physics CAS course.