Andrei Grafov, PhD, DrSc, is a visiting professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is a Full Professor at V.I. Vernadsky Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences in Kiev, Ukraine. Professor Grafov is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Dr. Eloisa B. Mano is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Macromolecules, atthe Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (FURJ), Brazil. She is the founder of the institute which is now named in her honor—the Professor Eloisa Mano Institute of Macromolecules of the FURJ. Professor Mano is a Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers and of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.