Professor Mieczyslaw Lapkowski is the Director of Department of Physical Chemistry of Polymers, Silesian University of Technology, since 2008. For his research contribution, he has been awarded with the Scientific Awards of the Minister of Science and Higher Education in 1983, 1991, 2005, and 2012; Award of Golden Cross in 199, Award of the Polish Chemical Society in 1991, and Award of the Polish Foundation for Science in 1992. His major research interest is focused on Conjugated and conducting oligomers and polymers, Organic electronics, Electrochemistry of organic molecules, and smart materials.