We are pleased to announce that Professor Pasquale Stano has been appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of the new section “Synthetic Biology and Systems Biology” in Life.

Professor Pasquale Stano joined the Pier Luigi Luisi group in Zürich in February 2002, working on the liposomal drug delivery (of camptothecin derivatives, in collaboration with Sigma-Tau, Pomezia, IT).

In 2004, the group moved to the Department of Biology of the University of Roma Tre (Rome, Italy), where their research focused on the construction and conceptualization of semi-synthetic "minimal cells", thanks to funding from the ‘Enrico Fermi’ Study Center (Rome, Italy), the FP6 European project “Synthcells”, the Human Frontiers Science Program, and the Italian PRIN. Professor Pasquale Stano has significantly contributed to these activities by coordinating research activities together with the group leader P. L. Luisi.

Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy). He mainly promotes a bottom-up approach in synthetic biology, origin of life research, and systems chemistry. Additional interests are green and sustainable chemistry, protein structure and function, and systems thinking and complexity.

He is the author of over 166 scientific international publications, including original research articles, reviews, proceeding papers, and book chapters in the field of synthetic biology, origin of life research, biochemistry, and systems chemistry. He co-edited the book “The Minimal Cell” (Springer, 2011). Moreover, he acted as guest editor for 8 Special Issues.

We warmly welcome Professor Pasquale Stano as the Editor-in-Chief of the section "Synthetic Biology and Systems Biology", and we look forward to Life achieving many milestones under his leadership. For further information on the journal section, please click:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/life/sections/synthetic_biology_systems_biology