Serhii Kovalenko graduated from the Zaporizhzhia State Medical University, Ukraine, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, with M.Sc., Ph.D., and D.Sc. degrees. He is currently a Chief Researcher at the Research Institute of Chemistry and Geology, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University. Prior to that, he was a Lead Researcher and Head of Department of Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry at Zaporizhzhia State Medical University. He has research interests in pharmaceutical, medicinal and organic chemistrty, drug design, the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds as potential anticancer, anti-inflammatory, neuroprotective, hepatoprotective, antiviral, antituberculosis, antifungal, antimicrobial and other types of drugs. Under his supervision, two Doctors of Science and 19 Doctors of Philosophy have been defended, and he has supervised one doctoral and three PhD theses.