Ekaterina V. Skorb is a Professor at ChemBio Cluster at ITMO University working on different projects from the synthetic cell and biofilm programming to smart dynamic materials and system for personal diagnostics, study, and modeling of nonlinear chemical processes. She received her Ph.D with “summa cum laude” in physical chemistry (2008). From 2013 she was a group leader at Biomaterials Department at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPIKG, Germany). She was a Visiting Scholar at Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department (Harvard, USA) in Prof. Whitesides group (2016-2017). Ekaterina has authored more than 80 research papers and received various fellowships (e.g. L’Oréal UNESCO, AvH, DAAD, LG Chem, etc.).