Vasileios Koutsos holds a Chair in Soft Materials and Surfaces at the Institute for Materials and Processes, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh. Formerly a Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics in Collège de France (Paris, France, 1998-2000), he completed a BSc in Physics (Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) in 1992 and a PhD in Polymer Science (Chemistry Department, University of Groningen) in 1997.