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Sandro Sonnino is one of the founding members of the Editorial Board of FEBS Open Bio, having joined in 2011. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of FEBS Letters and is the Editor‐in‐Chief of Glycoconjugate Journal. He is full professor of biochemistry in the School of Medicine at the University of Milan, where he was also formerly coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Advanced Technology (LITA) and Director of the Department of Medical Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Biotechnology. His research is focused on the metabolism and biochemical properties of gangliosides and glycosphingolipids, and their role in cell signaling and the nervous system. He is a guest editor of this special "In the Limelight" issue on glycosphingolipids in disease, which features multiple Reviews and an original research article related to this field. In this interview, Sandro Sonnino discusses the ongoing importance of research on glycosphingolipids and his personal career journey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Simon Rayner joined the FEBS Open Bio Editorial Board in March 2022. Currently, he is Professor of Bioinformatics at Oslo University Hospital and the University of Oslo in Norway. He received a PhD in computational solid‐state physics from the University of East Anglia, in 1991, and served as a Lecturer at the Dept of Physics in the University of Texas before working as a Research Fellow at the McDermott Centre for Human Growth and Development, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre at Dallas (UTSW). He went on to become Assistant Professor at the Depts of Biochemistry & Internal Medicine, UTSW before co‐founding BioAutomation Inc. where he developed DNA & RNA synthesis technology and was involved in the Human Genome Project. Simon is a CAS scholar and has also been a Professor of Bioinformatics at the Chinese Agricultural University in Beijing. Here, he tells us about his multi‐disciplinary career transitions, including experience working on three continents, and reflects on implementing open science and fair data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]