Dr. Bonizzoni completed his studies on chemical sensors for anion recognition at the University of Pavia (Italy) with Prof. Luigi Fabbrizzi. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Eric V. Anslyn at The University of Texas at Austin (USA), then joined the Department of Chemistry at The University of Alabama (2010), where he has been working on physical-organic investigations of water-soluble polyelectrolytes and their sensing applications. He was recognized as a Young Academic Investigator by the Division of Organic Chemistry of the ACS (2016), as a Distinguished Teaching Fellow at the University of Alabama (2017), and as one of the 2016 Emerging Investigators for the Journal of Materials Chemistry B.