Dr. Karolina Siskova, Ph.D. works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. She completed her PhD studies in Physical Chemistry at the Department of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic), and simultaneously in the Interface of Physics, Chemistry and Computing Science with Biology at the University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris (France). As a post-doc, she got the Fulbright grant and spent a 10-month research stay at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the USA. Since then, she has obtained several research grants (at Czech Science Foundation; Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic; Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic among others), certificates and awards (from American Chemical Society, Singapore Surface Engineering Association, Science of the Total Environment, the dean of Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc). Her interests include the preparation and application of noble metal and semi-conductive nanostructures, surface modification of these nanostructures, investigation of photo-active materials and nanocomposites, mechanisms of nanocomposite and nanomaterial formation, spectroscopic detection of biomolecules and contaminants, and vibrational specroscopy, namely SERS (surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy).