Dr Dmitry Volodkin holds the position of Associate Professor in Biomaterials at Nottingham Trent University (UK) and heads the group “Active Bio-Coatings”. He studied Chemistry at the Lomonosov Moscow State University and further obtained his PhD in 2005. Research stays brought him to France (University of Strasbourg) and Germany (Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Technical University of Berlin, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology). His research activities are focused on the design of advanced stimuli-responsive biomaterials for applications in tissue engineering, diagnostics, toxicology, and drug delivery. His group of engineers self-assembled polymer-based 2D and 3D structures with tailor-made properties: multilayer films, microcapsules and beads, liposome-polymer composites, polymeric scaffolds, etc. Dr Dmitry Volodkin has published more than 110 peer-reviewed articles/books and received a number of prestigious scientific awards, such as the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Richard-Zsigmondy Price of the German Colloid Society, Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship.