**About the Editors**

**Ana M. L. Seca** has been an assistant professor at the University of Azores since 2000. She develops research in the Center for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes—cE3c (ABG) as a full member, and in LAQV-REQUIMTE as a collaborator. She has a degree in Chemistry and an MSc in the Science and Technology of Paper and Forest Products, both obtained at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, where she also received her PhD in Chemistry in 2000. She has published 58 SCI papers and 8 book chapters. Her current research interests include the isolation and identification of secondary metabolites with potential pharmacological applications, and the synthesis of pharmaceutically relevant natural compound analogues.

**Antoaneta Trendafilova** is a professor from the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IOCCP-BAS). She obtained her master's degree in Organic and Analytical Chemistry from the Faculty of Chemistry, Sofia University, and her PhD in Bioorganic Chemistry, Chemistry of Natural and Physiologically Active Compounds from IOCCP-BAS. She is the author of 100 research papers published across international journals. Her research interests include different aspects of natural product chemistry, such as the isolation, structural determination, and analysis of biologically active natural compounds and their chemotaxonomic significance.
