Miroslav Mrlík received his BS (2007), MS (2009) and PhD (2013) all from Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic. He has held several post-doc positions: (2014–2015) Center for Advanced Materials, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar; (2016) Polymer Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia; (2018) Julius Maxmilian University in Wurzburg, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Wurzburg, Germany. Since 2019, he has held an academic position as a Senior Researcher at the Centre of Polymer Systems, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic. His research interests include fabrication, characterization and processing of smart polymer-based systems.