Prof. Giovanni Talarico has been an Associate Professor (SSD: Chim04) at the Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II since 2006. Graduated in chemistry with honors in 1994 under the direction of Prof. Paolo Corradini; he received his Ph.D. degree at the same University and subsequently carried out a post-doc in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (Holland). In 2007, he was a visiting professor at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in Strasbourg. Since 2015, he has collaborated with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia). His main scientific interests focus on metal-catalyzed stereospecific polymerization analyzed through experimental and theoretical analyses and the structure-property relationships of polymeric materials. He is the author of more than 100 papers in highly circulated international journals and 70 international conferences. He is the coordinator of national projects (PRIN and University Projects) and national coordinator of the European COST D17.