Dr. Peter Goekjian has been Professor of Chemistry at Université Claude Bernard–Lyon 1, France, since September 2000. His research interests are carbohydrate chemistry, total synthesis of glycosidic natural products, targeted methodology, and the role of glycosylation in signal transduction and gene expression. He was involved in the early work on the use of C-glycosides as conformational probes in the late 1980s and early 1990s.