Prof. Colin J. Suckling is a Research Professor of Chemistry, University of Strathclyde. Colin Suckling is a graduate of the University of Liverpool (BSc 1967, PhD 1970, DSc 1989) and has spent most of the rest of his academic career at the University of Strathclyde, where he was Freeland Professor of Chemistry from 1989 to 2012. During the 1990s, until 2002, he was Dean of the Faculty of Science, Deputy Principal, and Vice Principal of the University. Current research interests focus on the synthesis and properties of heterocyclic compounds designed as molecular probes for biological systems or as drugs, principally for treating infectious diseases. Colin was the Adrien Albert Lecturer of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2009-10) and the Chairman of the 2011 International Congress of Heterocyclic Chemistry held in Glasgow, recipient of the Nexxus Lifetime Achievement Award (2011), and he won the Gold Medal of the Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists (2011). Colin is a Fellow of many learned societies and Royal Colleges, including the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Royal Society of Edinburgh.