Sérgio Henrique Pezzin is a chemist and a full professor at the Santa Catarina State University (UDESC), Brazil. He gained his DSc. in Physical Chemistry (1998) at Campinas State University and has worked as a Guest Scientist at the GKSS Forschungszentrum GmbH and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) and as a Visiting Professor in Valencia (UPV, Spain). He has published more than 80 research articles and book chapters and is currently the Vice Provost of Research and leader of the Polymer Materials Group at UDESC, carrying out research in the areas of polymer physical chemistry and nanocomposites.