Carla Boga is an Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Chemistry 'Toso Montanari', University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy). She graduated with Chemistry at the University of Bologna (1983) and carried out her doctoral research in the Department of Organic Chemistry at the Faculty of Industrial Chemistry of the University of Bologna in 1988. She then got the PhD in Chemical Sciences, investigating a thesis entitled “Chiral ligands from D-mannitol and their use in asymmetric synthesis”. From July 1995 to June 2020, she was a Research Assistant in the Faculty of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Bologna. Since June 2020 she is an Associate Professor. She is an author of more than 145 papers in international refereed journals and of more than 120 oral or poster communications in national and international meetings. Her main research topics include the design and synthesis of new molecules with anticancer activity; mechanisms in organic chemistry; synthesis, properties and applications of aza-heterocycles. She has taught organic chemistry and laboratory; bioorganic chemistry; spectroscopic techniques for organic materials identifications; enzyme structure catalysis, industrial biochemistry laboratory.