**About the Editor**

#### **Ingo Dierking**

Ingo Dierking received his PhD in 1995 from the University of Clausthal in Germany. After a stint at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center in the US, working on electronic paper, he joined Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden, as a Humboldt fellow. There he was appointed as lecturer, before joining the University of Darmstadt in Germany for several years and eventually moving to the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Manchester in 2002. Ingo has published more than 150 scientific papers, as well as several books on topics of liquid crystal research. He is the 2009 awardee of the Hilsum medal of the British Liquid Crystal Society (BLCS) and the 2016 winner of the Samsung Mid-Career Award for Research Excellence of the International Liquid Crystal Society (ILCS). In 2021 he was awarded the internationally prestigious GW Gray Medal, the highest prize of the BLCS. Ingo is the former Secretary and current President of the ILCS and the former Chair of the BLCS. His current research interests are broadly focused on soft matter systems with an emphasis on liquid crystals and LC-based composites with polymers and nanoparticles.
