Anatoly N. Vereshchagin, Chief of the Carbohydrates and Biocides Laboratory of N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry (ZIOC RAS), graduated from Higher Chemical College of the Russian Academy of Science in Moscow (2003). He received his Ph.D. in electrochemical synthesis under the direction of Prof. M. N. Elinson in 2007 from ZIOC RAS and his Dr. Sci. in 2015. His research interests are now focused on the synthesis of novel biocides possessing antibacterial and antifungal activity, electro-organic synthesis and multicomponent reactions.