Wolfgang Binder is currently a Full Professor of Macromolecular Chemistry at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Born and raised in Vienna (Austria), he studied chemistry at the University of Vienna and conducted a Ph.D. in organic chemistry (1995). After postdoctoral stays with Prof. Menger (Emory University, Atlanta, USA) and Prof. Mulzer (University of Vienna), he was Associate Professor at Vienna University of Technology from 2004 to 2007. Subsequently, he moved to Halle as a Full Professor in 2007. His research interests include "click"-chemistry, polymer synthesis, supramolecular chemistry, self-healing polymers, and nanotechnology