Bogdan Štefane received the Ph.D. degree in chemistry in 2000 from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2000. He is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at University of Ljubljana. He conducted postdoctoral research as a Marie Curie Fellow, with Professor David M. Hodgson at University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K., in 2002–2004 and with Herman O. Sintim as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2009–2010. His research interests centre around organic synthetic methods, medicinal chemistry and functional materials.