José Miguel Sansano was born in Rojales (Alicante), Spain in 1965. He studied chemistry at the University of Alicante where he obtained his BSc and Ph.D. degrees in 1988 and 1994, respectively. In 1994 his PhD thesis was awarded with the San Alberto Magno prize. After spending a two years postdoctoral stay at the University of Leeds (UK) with Prof. R. Grigg he joined the University of Alicante in 1996, where he was appointed Associate Professor in 2001 and Full Professor in 2010. He is co-author of two patents and more than 90 papers mainly dedicated to new methodologies and enantioselective catalysis. He has also supervised 10 PhD thesis. He is co-founder of a new chemical company MEDALCHEMY, S. L. as a spin-off of the University of Alicante. His current research interests include asymmetric synthesis, sulfones, amino acids, kinetics, and organometallic chemistry.