Prof. Andrij Pich has been Professor for Functional and Interactive Polymers at RWTH Aachen University since 2009. In addition to his main position at DWI and RWTH, he has held the professorship for bio-based polymers (part-time professorship) at the Aachen-Maastricht Institute of Bio-Based Materials at Maastricht University since 2019. After studying chemical technology in Lviv (Ukraine), Prof. Andrij Pich completed his doctorate at the Technical University of Dresden in 2001. He spent the years 2006 and 2007 as a postdoc at the University of Toronto (Canada). In 2007, he was awarded the Georg Manecke Prize of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) and completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Dresden in 2008. The research of his group focuses on the synthesis of functional polymers and polymer colloids with diverse chemical structures and morphologies and their application for the fabrication of functional interactive materials. Prof. Andrij Pich is an expert in the synthesis of macromolecules with tailor-made structure and architecture using various sophisticated polymerization techniques.