Dr. Zohra Benfodda received her PhD in organic/medicinal chemistry at Montpellier university in 2006 under the direction of Dr H. Blancou and Dr. F. Guillen on the synthesis of fluorinated sulfonamides, sulfonimides and sulfonylureas and their biological properties. After post-doctoral training with Prof. Lluis Fajas (cancer research institute of Montpellier), she was an associate professor at Nîmes university where her research focuses on the syntheses of heterocycles derivatives that inhibit bacterial two component systems and non-chiral biologically active compounds and on syntheses of unusual amino acids with biological properties.