Alberto Marra graduated in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Pisa (Italy) and obtained his PhD degree from the University of Paris VI (France) under the supervision of Prof. P. Sinaÿ (Ecole Normale Supérieure). After a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) with Prof. A. Vasella, he joined the group of Prof. A. Dondoni at the University of Ferrara (Italy). In 1998 he became Professor in Organic Chemistry, and in 2012 he moved to the University of Montpellier (France) where he joined the Institute of Biomolecules Max Mousseron (IBMM). Since 2015 he has been leading the Glycochemistry and Molecular Recognition team at IBMM. Since 2018 he has been the Editor-in-Chief of Letters in Organic Chemistry (Bentham Science). His recent work deals with the synthesis of multivalent sugars and iminosugars through metal-free ligations such as the thiol-ene coupling (TEC), thiol-yne coupling (TYC) and sulfur(VI) fluoride exchange (SuFEx).