Prof. Dr. Peter Huy graduated with a diploma in chemistry from Cologne University in 2006, where he also completed his Ph.D. thesis about the synthesis of peptide mimetics in the laboratories of Prof. H.-G. Schmalz in 2010. After working there as a lecturer in organic chemistry, he moved as a DAAD fellow to the Aalto University in Helsinki in 2011 to conduct his first postdoc with Prof. A. Koskinen focusing on the synthesis of bioactive heterocycles. Afterwards, he returned to the research group of Prof. H.-G. Schmalz. After a short second postdoctoral stay in the group of Prof. B. List at the Max Planck institute for carbon research in Mülheim an der Ruhr, in 2013 he started his independent career at the Saarland University as a Liebig fellow in 2014. In 2019 he additionally taught as a deputy professor at the University of Heidelberg. In 2020 he joined the Institute for Chemistry at Rostock University as an associate professor (W2). His research interests are centered on the development of novel catalytic methods especially for S_N2-reactions and their application in the synthesis of bioactive compounds. A recent Author Interview with Prof. Huy is available atChemCatChem.