**Serge Perez**

Serge Perez holds a Doctorate es Sciences from the University of Grenoble, France. He had international exposure throughout several academic and industry positions in research laboratories in the U.S.A., Canada, and France (Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolecules Veg´ etales, CNRS, ´ Grenoble, as the chairperson and as Director of Research at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility). His research interests span across the whole area of structural glycoscience, emphasizing polysaccharides, glycoconjugates, and protein-carbohydrate interactions. He has a strong interest in the economy of glycoscience, and e-learning for which he created the www.glycopedia.eu, He is actively involved in scientific societies, as President and past-president of the European Carbohydrate Organisation. He is the author of more than 300 research publications, among which several are the subject of a large number of citations and references.
