**Education**: PhD in Chemical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (2000). Post-doc fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (2001-2002). **Career**: full professor of polymer technology at KTH Stockholm, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. Teacher of the year 2017. School of Engineering, KTH. One of 25 selected “outstanding young European scientist forming the future European network” , 2002, Poland. **Research interests**: polymeric biomaterials, polymers from renewable resources; smart materials that adsorb contaminants from air and water.