Saeed Balalaie is a professor of organic chemistry at K. N. Toosi University of Technology. He studied chemistry at Tehran University, Shahid Beheshti, and Sharif University of Technology for his BSc, MSc, and his PhD. His doctoral dissertation was about the photooxygenation of organic compounds and diastereoselectivity of nucleophilic addition reaction to glyceraldehyde acetonide in lithium perchlorate under the supervision of Prof. M. M. Hashemi and Prof. J. Ipaktschi in Dec. 1996. From 2001 to 2003 he received Alexander von Humboldt's research fellowship and he carried out research work at the University of Heidelberg with Prof. Rolf Gleiter. He received more than six times a short research stay award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He started his work in K. N. Toosi University of Technology in Feb. 1997 as an assistant professor and qualified in 2003 and 2007 as an associate and full professor. Prof. Balalaie is interested in the synthesis of heterocycles through a) sequential and domino reactions and b) designing of novel multicomponent reactions and post-transformation and also peptide chemistry especially active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) of peptides and biologically active peptides.