Katja Loos is a Professor at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and holds the chair of Macromolecular Chemistry and New Polymeric Materials. She currently serves as the President of the European Polymer Federation for the period of 2023 to 2025. She studied Organic Chemistry and Polymer Chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany) and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA), and obtained a PhD in the field of macromolecular chemistry at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. She is a Fellow of the Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). Her research focuses mainly on the synthesis and characterization of new, tailor-made macromolecules, as well as the development of sustainable, eco-efficient, and competitive production methods of polymeric materials.