P. R. Sundararajan, PhD, DSc, is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Carleton University in Ontario, Canada and has over 40 years of academic and industry experience in polymer chemistry. He has held positions as the NSERC-Xerox Industrial Research Chair Professor, Director of the Ottawa Carleton Chemistry Institute, Associate Chair of Graduate Affairs at the university, and Principal Scientist, Manager, and Project Leader at the Xerox Research Center of Canada. His current research focuses on the morphology of self-assembly systems, macromolecular nanotechnology, organo- and polymer gels and the morphology of polymer composites in confined systems. He is a winner of the Macromolecular Science and Engineering Award of the Chemical Institute of Canada, Materials Chemistry Award of the Canadian Materials Society and is a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada. He was the President of the Canadian Society for Chemistry and the Chair of the Chemical Institute of Canada.