Dr. Angelo Fontana is director of the Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry (ICB) of the National Research Council (CNR) and a Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Department of Biology of the University of Naples "Federico II". He is the coordinator of the group of Bio-Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology, whose research aims to develop new therapeutic principles from small marine natural molecules and to implement biotechnological processes and functional products from marine organisms. He is a permanent member of the international scientific committees for the "Marine Natural Products Symposium" and "European Conference on Marine Natural Products", and in 2009 he was awarded the Apivita Award from the Phytochemistry Society of Europe for his contribution to the field of natural products. His research topics mainly include organic chemistry, marine natural products, biosynthesis, secondary metabolism, and bio-energy.