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## **About the Special Issue Editor**

**Katharina M. Fromm**, Prof. Dr., was raised and educated in Germany, France, and the United States. After receiving a PhD in metal–organic chemistry from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany in 1994, she joined the group of Prof. Joachim Str¨ahle in T ¨ubingen (solid-state chemistry) and Nobel-Prize winner Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn (supramolecular chemistry) for her postdoctoral studies. In 1998, she moved to the University of Geneva for her habilitation, which she received in 2002. After a short intermission at the University of Karlsruhe with an Emmy Noether Stipend II, she was awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship at the University of Basel, allowing her to expand her researchatthe University of Fribourg, taking over the chair from Prof. Alexander von Zelewsky. From 2010 to end of 2019, she served as a Research Councilor for the Division "Programs" of the Swiss National Science Foundation, of which she became president in mid-2015 before being elected Vice-President of the Research Council in 2016. After her time with SNSF, she was nominated Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation in January 2020. Her main research interests deal with s-block elements and silver bioinorganic chemistry, although her activities go beyond that and include mechano-responsive polymers, nanocapsules and batteries. In 2013, she was named Fellow of the American Chemical Society (first in Europe), and became a member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2018, the same year she was also announced winner of the Prix Jaubert of the University of Geneva. In 2019, she was elected member of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences.
