Georges Massiot has been an emeritus research director at the Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de Reims since his retirement in 2013. Basically, he is an organic chemist with initial education at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris and PhD at ICSN under professor Henri Philippe Husson. After two years of post-doctorate research with professor Barry M. Trost at the University of Wisconsin, he joined CNRS at the faculty of pharmacy of Reims, where he remained in a continuous manner until 1992. In 1992 he was appointed deputy director of the department of chemical sciences of the CNRS in Paris. In 1998 he joined the Pierre Fabre Laboratories to found a natural products research center. His main interests are all aspects of natural products (isolation, structural elucidation, partial and total synthesis as well as determination of biological activities) with a special focus on alkaloids, terpenes and saponins and emphasis on NMR. After retirement, he served for five years as a scientific counselor in the French system of evaluation (AERES, then HCERES).