Salvatore Foti is full professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Catania (retired in November 2020). He graduated in Chemistry from the University of Catania, Italy, in 1973. In 1975, he spent a semester at the University of Mainz, Germany, as a postgraduate student, working on the application of mass spectrometry to the characterization of polymers. In 1983, supported by a NATO grant, he worked for a semester at the Chemical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, England, on the application of mass spectrometry to the characterization of peptides. His research interests include the application of mass spectrometry for the structural characterization of proteins and proteomics. He is a member of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI), the Italian Proteomic Association (ItPA), and the European Proteomic Association (EuPA).