Gilbert Kirsch, Ph.D., trained as an organic chemist at the Universities of Strasbourg and Metz. He began his academic career in 1973 at the University of Metz (now the University of Lorraine), where he currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor of Organic Chemistry. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Nuclear Medicine Group and has served as an invited scientist at Kodak (Rochester, NY), the University of Minho (Portugal), Emory University (Atlanta, GA), and Sapienza University in Rome. Dr. Kirsch has published approximately 300 papers and contributed chapters to Patai’s Functional Group Series, Houben-Weyl, Wiley's Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds, and Springer’s Selenium and Tellurium Chemistry. Additionally, he served as an editor for Springer's book "Recent Advances in Redox-Active Plant and Microbial Products."