Dr. Younis Baqi is Associate Professor of bioorganic and pharmaceutical Chemistry at Sultan Qaboos University. His early training was in natural product at the University of Jordan (M.Sc. 2003) and pharmaceutical chemistry at college of Pharmacy, Universität Bonn (Ph.D. 2008). After a research stay at the laboratory of Prof. E.J. Corey, Harvard University; MA, USA, he was appointed as a group leader within an ERA-NET project funded by the European Commission (2009–2011, Germany). In 2012 he was appointed as Assistant Professor at Sultan Qaboos University.