Ivan Stoikov is a full professor at the Department of Organic Chemistry of the Kazan Federal University (Russia). He received his senior doctor’s degree in chemistry in 2008. His research interests cover areas of organics, bio-organics, supramolecular chemistry, molecular recognition, polymer chemistry, nanoscience (including the synthesis of macrocycles, such as calix[4]arenes, thiacalix[4]arenes, and pillar[5]arene), artificial ion channels, and membrane extraction. The current research interest of his group involves supramolecular biomedical materials. He is the author of more than 200 articles indexed by Scopus and Web of Science and has been cited more than 2000 times with an H-index of 25.