Edorta Martinez de Marigorta was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, graduated in Chemistry in 1984 and received his Ph.D. at the University of Basque Country under the guidance of Dr. Esther Domínguez on the chemistry of Isoquinolines and Protoberberines. In 1991−92 and 1996, he worked with Dr. Ian Fleming at the University of Cambridge on the use of silyl anions in synthesis. By the end of 1996, he joined the Faculty of Pharmacy and Prof. Palacios’ group at the University of Basque Country, where he is now Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry. His research interests include the chemistry of fluorine- and phosphorus-containing compounds and the preparation of enantioenriched cyclic and acyclic compounds.