Saïd El Kazzouli was born in Beni Mellal (Morocco) in 1975. He received his Master's degree in 2000 from the Universities of Orleans, Paris V and Paris XI. Then, he received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Orleans in 2004 under the supervision of Prof. G. Guillaumet and Prof. A. Mouaddib. He then worked at the same university as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. L. Agrofoglio and Prof. S. Berteina-Raboin from 2004 to 2006. In 2006, he joined the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the USA as a postdoctoral fellow for 3 years with Dr. V. E. Marquez. In 2009, he became a researcher (project leader) at INANOTECH, MAScIR Foundation in Rabat (Morocco). In 2013, he joined the Euromed University of Fes (Morocco) as an associate professor. In 2019, he was appointed as a full professor at the same university. His main research interests are drug design, synthesis and delivery by nanoparticles; heterocyclic chemistry; catalysis (C–H activation); and green chemistry.