Prof. ​Thomas D. Anthopoulos is a Professor of Material Science and Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, where he has been since January 2017. He received his B.Eng. and D.Phil. degrees from Staffordshire University in UK. He then spent two years at the University of St. Andrews (UK) where he worked on organic light-emitting diodes before join Philips Research Laboratories (The Netherlands) to work on organic transistors between 2003 and 2006. From 2006 to 2017 he held a faculty position at Imperial College London (UK), first as an EPSRC Advanced Fellow and later as a professor of Experimental Physics. His research interests are diverse and cover the development and application of novel nano-patterning paradigms and the physics & application of functional materials.