Carlo Bicchi has been Full Professor of Pharmaceutical Biology at the Faculty of Pharmacy of University of Turin since 1990. His main field of research is development of analytical technologies for biologically active specialized metabolites in plant matrices (essential oils, terpenoids, phenolic compounds and alkaloids) and aroma profiling and fingerprinting of important industrial food crops (coffee, cocoa, hazelnuts, olive oil and tea). He focused his studies on Sample preparation; Gas chromatography (GC, GC-MS, Fast-GC, Multidimensional GC and new stationary phases), Enantioselective GC, High pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC, HPLC-MS), Supercritical fluid extraction and chromatography (SFE and SFC), Chemometric methods, fingerprinting and profiling.His scientific activity is documented by 360 publications in international Journals, and more than 400 plenary lectures, keynote lectures and communications and seminars. He has been Editor, Associate Editor, member of the advisory board of international journals and member of permanent scientific board of several International Scientific foundations and symposia.He was awarded with i) the 2018 Giovanni Dugo’s medal from the Italian Chemical Society (GISS), ii) the 2019 Arnaldo Liberti’s Medal from the Italian Chemical Society (DAC), iii) the 2021 COLACRO Medal from the Latino-American Association of Chromatography and Related Techniques, and iv) the 2022 ISEO Medal of Honor from the International Symposium on Essential Oils (ISEO) Medal Committee.