**Emiliano Manzo**

Dr. Manzo Emiliano was born in Naples on 3 March 1973. He received his degree in chemistry at the University of Naples Federico IIon 19 July 1996 with the votes 110/110 cum laude, discussing the experimental thesis "Structural determination of polysaccharides from phytopathogenic bacteria". In November 1996, he entered the profession of chemistry. On 6/03/2001, he obtained his Ph.D. in "Chemical Sciences" (Cycle XIII) at the University of Naples "Federico II". Since 2001, he has been a researcher and as of January of 2021 he has been a senior researcher at the Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry of the National Research Council (CNR), where he works on marine natural substances and in particular on chemical synthesis of marine metabolites with pharmacological activity developing synthetic strategies. Hisresearch activity is summarized in more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, 5 intern. patents and 50 communications to international conferences on chemstry of marine natural products.
