The Chair of Excellence sponsored by the Santander Bank, Spain, for 6 month is provided in order to fostering excellence in research by attracting top international researchers and scholars to the University. During the Academic Year 2011-12 the Chair was given to Dr., h.c., PhD professor Peter Ingwersen for his outstanding work in Informetrics in order to support and enhance the bibliometric and scientometric studies and research at University Carlos III of Madrid, Laboratory of Information Metric Studies (LEMI), Associated Unit IEDCYT-LEMI. C/ Madrid 126, Getafe 28903 Madrid.