Lyudmila V. Parfenova received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Petrochemistry and Catalysis, Russian Academy of Sciences in 2000. Since then, she has been a Senior Researcher at the same location. She is currently the Head of the Organic Synthesis Laboratory, Institute of Petrochemistry and Catalysis of RAS, Ufa Federal Research Center, Russia. She has expertise in the fields of metal complex catalysis, asymmetric synthesis, reaction mechanisms, NMR spectroscopy, natural product chemistry, and biocompatible materials.