Autor: Akira Hirao

Nikos Hadjichristidis is a Professor of Polymer at University of Athens, Greece, where he is the Chairman of the Chemistry Department. He also worked as an adjunct professor at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, the Technical University of Denmark, Institute of Chemical Engineering of the National Research Council of Argentina, and the Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela. He holds considerable honors including the ACS PMSE A. K. Doolittle Award (2003) and the International Award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (SPSJ, 2007). He is also a very active with the editorial boards of Polymer journals. He has published more than 340 papers and 23 reviews in referred scientific journals, 4 patents, two books. Yasuyuki Tezuka is a Professor of Polymer at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. His research has focused on topological polymer chemistry, in particular on designing topologically unique macromolecular architectures by developing the electrostatic self-assembly and covalent fixation process. He was an associate editor of Polymer Journal published by The Society of Polymer Science, Japan from 2002-2006, and has been an Asian Editor of Reactive and Functional Polymers since 2006. He received a M.S. from The University of Tokyo in synthetic chemistry and a Ph.D. from Ghent University (Belgium) in polymers. Akira Hiraois a Professor of Polymer at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, where he was the Chairman of Polymeric and Organic Materials Department four times and Vice-Dean of Chemistry Division, undergraduate course (2004-2006). He is currently Members of the Editorial Board of Macromolecules, Polymer Journal, Macromolecular Research, and European Polymer Journal.