Alessandro Dondoni is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Ferrara since more than three decades. He received the degree (Laurea) in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Bologna (1960) under the supervision of Professor F. Montanari. He pursued postdoctoral research in 1962-1963 at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago with Professor S. I. Miller. Afterward he began his academic career at the University of Bologna (1964), first as Assistant Professor and then as Associate Professor. He obtained a Special Professorship Degree (Libera Docenza) in Physical Organic Chemistry at the University of Bologna in 1969. He joined the Faculty of Science of the University of Ferrara as Full Professor in 1975. Prof. Dondoni awards include the Rhône-Poulenc Rorer Lectureship Award; the Ciba Lectureship Award; the Mangini Gold Medal Award from the Italian Chemical Society; the Avogadro-Minakata Lectureship Award from the Chemical Society of Japan; the Ziegler-Natta Lectureship Award from the German Chemical Society; the Lincei National Academy Prize in Chemistry sponsored by the Italian Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities. In 2003 he was elected President of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry. He has been a plenary lecturer in several international symposia and at the Bürgenstock Conference and in seven Gordon Research Conferences dealing with heterocyclic chemistry, natural product synthesis, and glycochemistry. Prof. Dondoni,s research interest span various areas of organic synthesis with an emphasis on the preparation of new compounds of biological and pharmaceutical relevance. Modern synthetic approaches are employed to this end including organocatalysis, multicomponent processes, click chemistry, reactions in ionic liquids, and reactions in flow mode.