Toshifumi Dohi (T.D.), a Professor at Ritsumeikan University, received his MS degree in 2002 (Prof. S. Murai) from the Graduate School of Engineering of Osaka University, Japan, and his PhD in 2005 (Prof. Y. Kita) from the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Osaka University, where he studied new reactivities of transition metal catalysts and synthetic chemistry using hypervalent iodine reagents. After finishing his PhD work, he became an Assistant Professor at Osaka University and was promoted to Associate Professor (PI) in 2014 at Ritsumeikan University. His current research interest is focused on reagent/catalyst design and the development of new reactions using hypervalent iodine reagents. T.D. received the IUPAC-ICOS 15 Poster Award for the most excellent presentation, the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan (PSJ) Award for Young Scientists (2009), the Banyu Chemist Award (2013), the Thieme Chemistry Journal Award (2014), the GSC Encouragement Award (2015), and the International Congress on Pure and Applied Chemistry (ICPAC) Lecture Award (2019) for his researches (h-index: 43). For more details, see: http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/pharmacy/dohi/ at this homepage.