Dr. Suming Li obtained his Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry in June 1989 from the University of Rouen, France. After two years as a post-doc, in 1992, he was named research scientist at the Research Center for Artificial Biopolymers, UMR CNRS 5473, University Montpellier 1. From 1995 to 1996, he worked as a visiting scientist in the NSF Center for Polymer Biodegradation Research, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA. He was named senior scientist of CNRS in October 1996 and research director of CNRS in October 2011 at the Max Mousseron Institute of Biomolecules, UMR 5247. In June 2013, he joined the European Institute of Membranes, UMR 5635, University Montpellier 2. He obtained the bronze medal of CNRS in 1996 and the award for scientific excellence of CNRS in 2010. His research activities include the synthesis, structure properties, degradation mechanisms, and biomedical and pharmaceutical applications of degradable and bioresorbable polymers, in particular, polyesters derived from lactides, glycolide, ɛ-caprolactone, and copoly(ester-carbonate)s and copoly(ester-ether)s. In recent years, he has been mainly interested in the chemical modification of biopolymers such as chitosan and cellulose and in the self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers.