Prof. Dr. Bernhard Rieger received a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich. He spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. From 1989 to 1991 he worked at BASF SE in Ludwigshafen before going on to complete his postdoctoral teaching qualification in inorganic chemistry at the University of Tübingen in 1995. He then moved to the University of Ulm, where he taught and conducted research until 2006. In 2007 Professor Rieger was appointed to the WACKER-Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry at TUM and became Director of the Institute of Silicon Chemistry. He has been chairman of the TUM Senate since 2016. He both initiated and directed the international graduate school IRTG2022 “ATUMS”, which is funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation). He is a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences & Letters, the European Academy of Sciences in Brussels, and acatech, the German Academy of Science and Engineering. Prof. Dr. Rieger obtained the Wöhler Prize for Sustainable Chemistry, an Honorary Doctorate (Dr. h.c. Phil.) from the University of Helsinki, and so on. His research interests include homogeneous polymerization catalysis. His work provides the opportunity to selectively control the microstructure of polymers and thereby tailor their macroscopic properties, such as elasticity.