Prof Blau came to Trinity College and Ireland in 1983. Since 2003 he holds a Personal Chair of Physics of Advanced Materials. From 1992 – 2007 he was Research Director of the Materials Ireland Polymer Research Centre at TCD Physics, a research centre which worked closely with indigenous Irish plastics industries for all sectors including electronics, medical devices and materials processing. He is currently Honorary Professor in the Chemistry Department of East China University of Science and Technology; Visiting Honorary Professor, Northwest University, Xi’an, China; and Honoured Professor and China National High-end Foreign Expert at SIOM, Chinese Academy of Science. Prof. Blau is one of the Irish pioneers of Nanotechnology. He is internationally well-known and highly cited for his original work in interdisciplinary molecular and polymer nanoscience.