**Meet the editor**

Reza Najjar (born in Marvdizaj/Soufian, Iran) studied Chemistry at the University of Tabriz (BSc, 1994), Sharif University of Technology (MSc, 1997), and Aachen University of Technology (RWTH), Germany (PhD, 2006). After completing a year of postdoctoral work at the University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, he joined the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Tabriz (August

2007) as an assistant professor, where currently he is working as an associate professor since January 2015. One of his research interests is to prepare polymeric surfactants and use them in various fields of applications.
