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Alexander Böker is director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research (IAP) and holds the Chair for Polymer Materials and Polymer Technology at the University of Potsdam, Germany. He studied chemistry at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA and received his PhD from University of Bayreuth in 2002 and his habilitation from the same university in 2007. From 2008-2015, he was deputy scientific director of DWI – Leibniz Institute for .. continue reading Interactive Materials in Aachen. The main research interests of his group include integration of biological functions into polymer materials and guided self-assembly of colloidal and polymer systems. Presently he is Professor of Macromolecular Chemistry, at the University of Salerno. Most of the scientific activity of Prof. Guerra has been devoted to theoretical and experimental studies relative to polymeric materials. Esmaiel Jabbari is Tenured Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at University of South Carolina.