KATJA LOOS (K. Loos) is Professor at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands holding the chair of Macromolecular Chemistry and New Polymeric Materials. She specialized in Organic Chemistry and Polymer Chemistry during her graduation studies at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, Germany and the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, USA. She moved into the field of Enzymatic Polymerizations during her doctoral research at the University of Bayreuth, Germany and the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil. After postdoctoral research stay at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY, USA she started an independent research group at the University of Groningen. Katja Loos pioneered the field of enzymatic polymerization, especially the biocatalytic synthesis of polysaccharides and polyamides, and the synthesis and self-assembly of PVDF containing block copolymers. Already early in her career, Katja Loos was awarded two travel scholarships of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and she received the very prestigious Feodor Lynen Fellowship Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to conduct her postdoctoral research. During her independent research career, on the basis of her unique approach in combining modern polymer synthesis, (macro)molecular self-assembly, and utilization of the arising structures the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded her the prestigious VIDI grant in 2009 and VICI grant in 2014 . Also, the German Research Council (DFG) awarded her the Eleonore Trefftz guest professorship within the scope of its excellency initiative. She is also a Fellow of the Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). Katja Loos is a distinguished scientist with over 210 scholarly peer-reviewed publications (h-index = 41), various patents and book chapters. She is the editor of the only currently available textbook in the field of Enzymatic Polymerizations (Biocatalysis In Polymer Chemistry; Loos, K. Ed.; Wiley-VCH, 2010) and co-author of an introductory textbook on Polymer Science widely sold and used in The Netherlands and Belgium (Inleiding In De Polymeerchemie; Challa, G.; Schouten, A. J.; Loos, K.). She has supervised the research projects of more than 100 early career researcher, and the recent studies of her group attracted considerable media attention nationally as well as internationally. In the last five years, she has been invited for keynote and plenary lectures at international conferences (> 40) and at institutes/companies abroad (> 30) and at several national occasions (> 15). A large number of international scientists have visited her laboratory in recent years. In the past 5 years, she has been involved in >30 (inter)national collaborations. She frequently acts as an evaluator for international institutes and funding bodies, including the European Research Council. She has been active in the (co)organization of several scientific symposia and meetings and is acting on the advisory board of other ones.