**Asunci ´on Barbero**

Asuncion Barbero studied Chemistry at the University of Valladolid and received her PhD ´ degree at the same University, working with Prof. Pulido. She then conducted postdoctoral research as a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Prof. Ian Fleming, working for two years on the use of silicon chemistry to control stereoselectivity in Organic Synthesis. She went back to Valladolid as Assistant Professor, where she was promoted to Associate Professor in 2001 and to full Professor in 2019. In 2013, she was appointed as Coordinator of the Grade of Chemistry of the University of Valladolid, and since 2018 she has served as the head of the Organic Chemistry department. She has been an Editorial Board member of *Marine Drugs* from 2019 to date. Prior to this Special Issue, she has edited two other Special Issues of *Marine Drugs* in 2020 and 2021.

The results of her research have been presented in several invited and plenary lectures at prestigious international conferences and are summarized in over 60 publications in highly qualified international journals and book chapters.

Her major research interests focus on the development of efficient and selective methodologies for the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds with potential biological properties.
