Professor Nikos Hadjichristidis Professor of Chemical Sciences Division of Chemical and Life Sciences & Engineering King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Kingdom of Saudi Arabia *Chemistry of Thermoplastic Elastomers Award of ACS, Rubber Division, USA, 2011 *Cooperative Award of ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering, USA, 2010 *International Award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan, 2007 Akira HIRAO, Ph.D. Professor of Organic and Polymeric Materials Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan *Japan Polymer Society Award (2010) *member of the Editorial Board of "Macromolecules", "Polymer Journal"