Jerome Waser is a distinguished Full Professor in Organic Chemistry at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), where Jerome also serves as the Director of the section of chemistry and chemical engineering and previously held the position of Associate Professor. In addition to their academic roles, Jerome Waser is the Editor In Chief of Helvetica Chimica Acta at Wiley and serves as Co-Director of the NCCR Catalysis at the SNSF Swiss National Science Foundation. Jerome Waser completed a PhD in Organic Chemistry and a Diploma (Master) in Chemistry at ETH Zürich from 2002 to 2006 and from 1997 to 2001, respectively, and has experience as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University.