**About the Editor**

**Michal Sedlaˇc´ık** received his Ph.D. degree from Tomas Bata University in Zl´ın (TBU) in 2012. From that same year, he has since been Lecturer at the Faculty of Technology at TBU. He successfully defended his habilitation work entitled "Novel Approaches to Design of Intelligent Fluids" in 2016. Currently, he is a senior researcher in the Nanomaterials and Advanced Technologies Group at Centre of Polymer Systems, TBU. He is a member of numerous international scientific societies such as American Chemical Society, The Society of Rheology, and The Society of Plastics Engineers. He shares authorship of 65 papers with *h*-index = 21. His current research interests include synthesis and properties of intelligent systems, elastomers, and electromagnetic shielding composites.
