Designing novel sugars and understanding how they work is an extremely challenging task. Accordingly, carbohydrate chemistry and supramolecular carbohydrate chemistry require devotion, persistence and creativity. José Manuel Garcia Fernandez, professor at University of Seville is working on such challenging innovations and discoveries around the uses of novel sugars for innovative applications. José will guide us into the world of cyclodextrin and carbohydrate chemistry, unravel a few mysteries and point out challenges and possibilities of the future from a chemistry point of view.