Cyrille Boyer (front row, left) received his Ph.D. from the University of Montpellier II (Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Montpellier, France) in 2006. At the end of 2006, he joined the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD) as a senior research fellow. In 2013, Cyrille was promoted to Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales and received the UNSW Research Excellence Award at the Faculty of Engineering and was a finalist of NSW innovation award in 2014. Cyrille’s research interests mainly cover the use of photoredox catalysts to perform living radical polymerization and polymer postmodification, hybrid organic–inorganic nanoparticles for imaging, and energy storage. Cyrille has published over 150 research articles, including eight patents, which have gathered over 5000 citations.

Nathaniel Corrigan (back row, left) was born in Lismore, NSW, Australia in 1991. He completed his Bachelor of Chemical Engineering at the UNSW-Australia in 2014, with his honors project investigating catalyst-free visible light-induced RAFT polymerizations. He is currently undertaking a Ph.D. under the supervision of A/Prof. Cyrille Boyer at UNSW-Australia, with his research focusing on photoredox catalysis for polymerizations as well as other visible light-induced polymerizations.

Kenward Jung (back row, second from right) is a Ph.D. student at the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design, UNSW-Australia. His research interests are based in the field of polymer chemistry with a particular emphasis on the external regulation of controlled polymerizations and the development of “green” processes for macromolecular design. A major focal point of his research is the development of photoregulated polymerizations in heterogeneous systems.

Diep Nguyen (front row, second from right) earned her B.S. in Education of Chemistry from Hue University of Education and M.S. from Vietnam National University of Science. She is currently a Ph.D. student in the research group of A/Prof. Cyrille Boyer at UNSW-Australia. Her Ph.D. involves the design and synthesis of macromolecules for the delivery of carbon monoxide for antimicrobial applications.

Thuy-Khanh Nguyen (front row, second from left) received her B.Sc. from James Cook University (Townsville, Australia) in 2009. She worked as a research assistant at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) from 2010–2011. Nguyen completed her M.Sc. in Infectious Diseases, Drug Discovery and Vaccinology from the National University of Singapore (Singapore) in 2013. She then spent about one year working as a research officer at Vela Diagnostics (Singapore). Since March 2014, Nguyen has been a Ph.D. student at the Australian Centre for Nanomedicine (ACN) and Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD), UNSW-Australia. Her research interests are focused on macromolecular design for drug delivery, nitric oxide, and biofilm dispersal.

Nik Nik M. Adnan (front row, right) earned his B.E. at UNSW-Australia. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the Australian Centre for Nanomedicine (ACN) and Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD), UNSW Australia, under the guidance of Cyrille Boyer. His research focuses on the fabrication of therapeutic nanomaterials for biomedical application, mainly on the light-responsive hybrid nanomaterials as cancer phototherapy and drug delivery agents.

Susan Oliver (front row, middle) received her B.Sc.(Hons) in industrial chemistry from UNSW-Australia and worked for a number of years in industry, primarily in the pharmaceutical area. She is currently a Ph.D. student working with Cyrille Boyer at the Australian Centre for Nanomedicine (ACN) and Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD). Her research involves enhancing the therapeutic effects of polyphenolic compounds with macromolecules.

Sivaprakash Shanmugam (back row, second from left) earned his B.S. in Biochemistry, with a minor in Chemistry, from Case Western Reserve University in 2013. He is currently a postgraduate student pursuing his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at UNSW-Australia under the direction of A/Prof. Cyrille Boyer. His research focuses on the development of spatial, temporal, and sequence control of light-mediated RAFT polymerization.