Claudio Santi received his PhD under the supervision of prof M. Tiecco in 1996. After a post doc at Basel University in the group of Thomas Wirth he becomes assistant professor at University of Perugia in 2002 and aggregate professor in 2005. In 2013 he received national habilitation as full professor and started to lead the group of Catalysis and Organic Green Chemistry at the dpt of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He is cofounder and chairman of the international Scientific Networkork SeSRedCat (Selenium Sulfur and Redox Catalysis) and in November 2018 he will receive the honorary professorship of Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa (PL).