Prof. G. Attilio Ardizzoia has been a Full Professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry at the Department of Science and High Technology of the University of Insubria (Italy) since 2005. He obtained his Master’s degree in Chemistry in 1983 and his PhD in Chemistry in 1989 from the University of Milan. His doctoral research focused on the activation and functionalization of carbon dioxide. During his PhD studies, he also spent a research period as a visiting PhD student at the CNRS (Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination) in Toulouse, in the group of Prof. Igor B. M. Tkatchenko, where he worked on carbon dioxide activation processes. Prof. Ardizzoia is the author of more than 70 scientific publications, mainly devoted to the synthesis, structural characterization and investigation of the catalytic and photophysical properties of nitrogen-donor ligands, such as pyrazoles and imidazo[1,5-a]pyridines, and related coordination compounds. He has extensive expertise in density functional theory (DFT) calculations, which are routinely applied within his research group to support experimental findings.