**About the Editor**

#### **Gabriela Kuncova**

Dr. Gabriela Kuncova is a lecturer at the University of Jan Evangelista Purkyne in Usti nad Labem, and an Emerita scientist at the Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals (ICPF) Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic, Prague. From 1979 to 1989, she participated in the research and development of drawing and coating optical fibers. From 1998 to 2017, she was the head of the group of Immobilized Biomaterials and Optical Sensors at ICPF. The use of optical fiber sensors in bioreactors, and for monitoring environmental pollution, immobilization of biological materials into organic–inorganic matrices, enzyme and whole-cell biosensors, and biodegradation with immobilized biocatalysts have been her main research interests. She is an author or co-author of 79 registered papers (740 citations without self-citations (Web of Science)), with an H index of 20.
