Prof. Mats R. Andersson is a Matthew Flinders Professor and the director of Flinders Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. He performed a joint PhD-study at the Departments of Organic Chemistry and Polymer Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, and he received his PhD degree in Organic Chemistry in 1995. He was appointed a Professor in Polymer Chemistry in 2004, and he held a chair in Polymer Chemistry from 2007 to 2015 at Chalmers. In 2012, he was elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. In 2013, Mats was awarded a South Australian Chair in Energy, and in 2014, he moved to Adelaide to join University of South Australia as a Research Professor. In 2017, he moved to Flinders University.