Stefano Protti obtained the Master’s degree in 2003 (110/110 cum laude). In 2007, he completed his PhD in Pavia focusing on photochemical arylations via phenyl cations. Later he moved to LASIR Laboratory (Lille, France), where he investigated the photoreactivity and the photophysics of flavonoids. He came back to Pavia and started working in the field of (photo)green synthetic chemistry. After a postdoctoral stay at the iBitTec-S laboratory (CEA Saclay, France) carrying out studies on photocatalyzed oxidation reactions for energy storage, he moved again to Pavia. Since 2018 is Associate Professor at the University of Pavia, Italy. He is currently editor of the Specialist Periodical Reports in Photochemistry of the Royal Society of Chemistry, member of the Early Career Board of the ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering and of the International Advisory Board of the European Journal of Organic Chemistry. The research activity of Stefano Protti has been mainly focused on the development of new synthetic methods for the light driven formation of C-C and C-heteroatom bonds under metal free conditions.

• Part 1. Periodical Reports: Organic and Computational Aspects (2016-2017): Introduction and Review of the Year 2017;Advances in Computational Photochemistry and Chemiluminescence of Biological and Nanotechnological Molecules (2016-2017);Organic Aspects: Photochemistry of Alkenes, Dienes, Polyenes (2016-2017);Organic Aspects: Photochemistry of Aromatic Compounds (2016-2017);Organic Aspects: Photochemistry of Oxygen-containing Functions (2016-2017);Organic Aspects: Photochemistry of Functions Containing a Heteroatom Different from Oxygen (2016-2017);Part 2. Highlights: Two-photon Responsive Chromophore for Uncaging Reactions;Controlled Release of Volatile Compounds Using the Norrish-type II Reaction;Recent Advances in the Design of Light-Activated Tissue Bonding;Photoresponsive Molecular Probes Targeting Nucleic Acid Secondary Structures;Transition Metal Complexes in ECL Based Biosensing Techniques;Photochemical Bond Activation at Metal Centres: A Snapshot into Selectivity;Aromatic Hydrocarbons as Catalysts and Electron Shuttles in Light-induced Electron Transfer Reactions;Photochemical and Photocatalysed Multicomponent Reactions;Asymmetric Catalysis of Triplet-state Photoreactions