Guido Kickelbick holds one of the chairs of the Inorganic Chemistry department at Saarland University (Germany). Born in Hamm, he studied chemistry at the University of Würzburg (Germany). He carried out his Ph.D. thesis in the group of Ulrich Schubert at the University of Würzburg and the Vienna University of Technology on sol-gel-derived surface-modified metal oxo clusters. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1997, he was awarded an Erwin-Schrödinger postdoctoral fellowship with Krzysztof Matyjaszewski at the Center for Macromolecular Engineering at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA (USA) on the application of controlled radical polymerization in the formation of hybrid materials. In 1998, he returned to the Vienna University of Technology, where he carried out his habilitation until 2003. At the end of 2003, he was promoted to associate professor at Vienna University of Technology. In 2009, he accepted the call to chair the inorganic chemistry depssrtment at Saarland University. He is working in the fields of hybrid materials and nanocomposites, as well as surface-functionalized nanoparticles, with a particular focus on the combination of organic polymers with inorganic components. Guido Kickelbick has published more than 200 papers on different aspects of inorganic, polymer, and materials chemistry. He has authored one textbook and edited several books. From 2016 to 2020, he was the dean of the Faculty of Natural Science and Technology at Saarland University.