Prof. Pat Guiry is a Full Professor and the Director of the Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology at the School of Chemistry, University College Dublin. He obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University College Dublin in 1986 and 1990, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford during 1990–1993. He joined University College Dublin in 1993 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2002 and to Associate Professor in 2003. He has been a Full Professor since 2006. His research group focuses on synthetic organic chemistry, with interests in both the development of asymmetric synthetic methodology through the application of new chiral ligands in homogeneous metal-catalyzed transformations and the total synthesis of compounds of biological interest. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Chemistry in Ireland and was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2013. He was also awarded the Boyle Higgins Medal of the Institute of Chemistry in Ireland in 2014. He has been the President of the Institute of Chemistry in Ireland and the EuChemS Division of Organic Chemistry since 2022. He was elected as President of the Royal Irish Academy in March 2023 for a 3-year term. He has represented Ireland at tennis in ITF World Championships at all ages groups since O-35 and has won 20 national titles to date.