Petr Cígler received his PhD at UCT Prague (2008), afterwards he did postdoc at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA. Since 2013 he has been a head of Synthetic Nanochemistry research group at Institute of organic chemistry and biochemistry of the CAS, Prague. His current research interests include nanoparticles surface chemistry, their biointerface, and their applications in biomedicine and sensors.