https://polymer.sav.sk/dschp-staff/ Martin Danko was born in Piešťany, Slovakia, in 1974. He received an M.Sc. (1997) in organic chemistry from Comenius University, Slovakia, and a Ph.D. (2001) in macromolecular chemistry from the Polymer Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. where he is working as a principal research scientist. His research interests are photochemical and photophysical processes in polymer materials—expert in fluorescence spectroscopy, preparation of special monomers and low-molecular-weight bifunctional fluorescence probes suitable for various polymer and hybrid systems characterization, ring-opening and radical (co)polymerizations of renewable lactones and (meth)acrylates and functionalization of biocompatible and biodegradable polyesters for crosslinking and degradation (mineralization) studies.