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M. Alyse Harvison was born in Mississippi, USA, and graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2008 with a BS degree in Chemistry (highest Honours). During her undergraduate studies, she was a recipient of the highly prestigious Coca Cola National and Northrop Grumman Scholarships. In the autumn of 2008, she joined the Ph.D. program in Polymer Science & Engineering at the University of Southern Mississippi, moving in August 2009 to continue her Ph.D. studies with Professor Lowe in the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD), where she is currently exploring the application of thiol-based chemistries as a means of selectively functionalizing and synthesizing novel (co)polymers.

Peter J. Roth studied chemistry at the University of Mainz (Germany) and the University of Massachusetts, USA, receiving his diploma in chemistry in 2006 in the group of Dr Patrick Theato. He undertook his Ph.D. studies in the groups of Professor Rudolf Zentel (University of Mainz) and Professor Byeong-Hyeok Sohn (Seoul National University, Korea) on the end-group functionalization of RAFT polymers, receiving his Ph.D. in chemistry in 2009. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD) in Sydney, Australia, working in the groups of Professors Andrew Lowe and Thomas Davis.

Thomas P. Davis has been an academic at the University of New South Wales for 17 years following a stint in industry as a research manager at ICI in the UK. He has co-authored more than 325 refereed papers, patents and book chapters. He is the Founding Director of the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD) and the Australian Centre for Nanomedicine (ACN) at the University of New South Wales. In 2005, he was awarded a Federation Fellowship by the Australian Research Council. He serves, or has served, on the editorial advisory boards of Macromolecules, Journal of Polymer Science, Australian Journal of Chemistry, Journal of Materials Chemistry, Journal of Macromolecular Science – Reviews and Polymer Chemistry.

Andrew B. Lowe is currently a Professor of Polymer Science & Engineering in the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He graduated from the University of Sussex with B.Sc. (Hons) (1993), D.Phil. (1998) and DSc (2009) degrees, completing his D.Phil under the supervision of Professors Steven P. Armes and Norman C. Billingham. He spent ~10 years at the University of Southern Mississippi, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, first as a postdoctoral researcher, then as an Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry and subsequently as an Associate Professor of Polymer Science & Engineering (with tenure). He has published ~100 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, encyclopedia articles and patents. Professor Lowe's current research interests are focussed on applications of RAFT, ROMP, and highly efficient thiol-based coupling chemistries as a means of preparing novel, stimulus-responsive polymers.