Reinhard Boysen, Senior Research Fellow, School of Chemistry, Monash University, Australia Reinhard Boysen has a PhD (Dr. rer. nat) from the Faculty of Chemistry at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, where he specialized in analytical biochemistry. He held a research position in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Monash University and in the last 5 years worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Green Chemistry/School of Chemistry in various fields of analytical chemistry that impact on the green chemical and environmental sciences. He collaborated successfully in interdisciplinary and international teams, enabling him to expand his core competencies into areas of practical significance, e.g. industrial purification technologies, compound analysis and new functional polymers. Reinhard Boysen has made significant research contributions and discoveries in fundamental and applied sciences documented in his 62 scientific publications, 19 book chapters and 5 patent applications.