**About the Editors**

#### **Francesca Cardona**

Francesca Cardona has been an Associate Professor since 2015. Born in 1971, she received her PhD in Chemical Sciences in Firenze in 1998 (Tutor Prof. A. Brandi). She was a post-doc fellow for 1 year at the University of Lausanne (CH) with Prof. P. Vogel. She was a permanent researcher (2002–2015) at the Department of Chemistry in Firenze. In 2006 she was awarded the "G. Ciamician" medal of the Italian Chemical Society for young organic chemists under 35. She is author of 107 papers, 12 chapters, 1 book (RSC) and 1 patent (h-index 36) on stereoselective syntheses of nitrogenated glycomimetics and new green oxidation methods.

#### **Camilla Parmeggiani**

Camilla Parmeggiani has been an Associate Professor since 2021. Born in 1981, she received her PhD in Chemical Science at the University of Florence with Prof. A. Goti. Since 2010, she has been an associate at LENS. In 2016, she was awarded the "Organic Chemistry for environment, energy and nanosciences" prize from the Organic Chemistry Division of the SCI and she was a finalist of the European Young Chemist Award. She has authored 55 papers, 1 book and 4 patents (h-index 29) on smart materials, stereoselective synthesis of iminosugars and new green oxidation methods, which have been cited over 3016 times.

#### **Camilla Matassini**

Camilla Matassini has been a Researcher Fellow since 2020. Born 1984, she received her PhD (*Doctor Europaeus*) in Chemical Science at the University of Firenze in 2014 with Prof. Goti, after spending one year at the Lab of GlycoNanotechnology (CICbiomaGUNE, San Sebastian, Spain) ´ with Prof. Penades. In 2016 she was awarded the Italian "Accademia dei Lincei" prize for her ´ research in the field of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, and in 2020 the Organic Chemistry Junior Prize in Life Sciences from the Italian Chemistry Society. In 2019, by means of a MIUR grant (Leonardo da Vinci project), she spent a short-period placement in the group of Prof. Bols at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Copenhagen. Her interests focus on the synthesis of mono- and multivalent iminosugars and the preparation of gold nanoparticles for therapeutic applications. She is co-author of 2 patents, 2 chapters in scientific volumes and more than 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals (h-index 13).
