Tomasz Janecki was born in Łódź (Poland) and studied chemistry at the Lodz University of Technology. He obtained his doctorate in 1981. After postdoctoral appointments at Strathclyde University (Peter Pauson) and University of Texas at Austin (Josef Michl and Karl Folkers) he began an independent research career and completed his “Habilitation” at the Lodz University of Technology in 1996. Currently he is a Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the same university. His main research interests focus on the application of organophosphorus reagents in stereoselective synthesis of biologically important classes of organic compounds.