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Giovanni Piersanti was born in Urbino (Marche, Italy) in 1974. He received his MS (Hons) in Chemistry from the University of Bologna in 1997, where he carried out research with Prof. M. Panunzio. He completed his Ph.D. in 2003 with Prof. G. Tarzia at University of Urbino. During his PhD he moved as Visiting Scholar at the University of California-Berkeley to work with Prof. Paul A. Bartlett. After two and a half years as a postdoctoral Fellow/Scientist first with Prof. Prof. Mohammad Movassaghi at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA) and then at Nerviano Medical Sciences-Milano, In 2006, he started his professional academic career as an assistant professor at Urbino University, and promoted to associate professor in 2015. Since 2015 he has been a professor of Organic chemistry at the same University. His research interests are catalytic organic synthesis, asymmetric catalysis, and includes the development of new strategies and methods for the synthesis of Tryptophan-derived indole alkaloids.