Luca Turin (b 1953) is a biophysicist, currently Professor of Physiology at University of Buckingham Medical School. His scientific field is Quantum Biology. He was educated in France and the UK. He has worked in the French CNRS, at UCL, in the private sector, MIT, Ulm University, and Fleming Centre in Greece. He is coauthor, together with his wife Tania Sanchez, of several guides to perfume. He is inordinately fond of sweet wines.