Marylène Vayer is a researcher at the CNRS (French Centre of Scientific Research). She holds an engineering degree in chemistry from the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Strasbourg, France (1983). She received her PhD in materials science from the University of Nancy, France (1987). She was appointed as a CNRS researcher in 1988. Marylène is currently working at the laboratory ICMN (Interface, Confinement, Materials and Nanostructuration) in Orleans, France. Her current research interest is the nanostructuration of polymers in thin films.