Bogdan Štefane received his PhD in chemistry in 2000 at the University of Ljubljana under the supervision of Professor S. Polanc. From 2002 to 2004 he was a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow at the University of Oxford, working with Professor D. M. Hodgson. In 2009 he continued his post-doctoral education as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Maryland in the research group of Professor H. O. Sintim. In 2017 he spent 4 months as a visiting Professor at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman. In 2004 he became an Assistant Professor and 2011 received the position of an Associate Professor at the University of Ljubljana, where he is currently the head of the Department of Organic Chemistry. His research interests are the development of novel synthetic methods for the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds, transition metal catalysis and design of catalysts, activation of inert chemical bonds, and photochemistry.