Antonios K. Doufas received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. He worked at the Corporate R&D Laboratories of the Dow Chemical Company and later in Polypropylene Product Development at Sunoco Chemicals and Braskem Americas. He is currently a Team & Technical Leader in Global Polymers Technology (Specialty Elastomers) at the ExxonMobil Chemical Company with interests in structure-process-properties, product development, rheology and flow-induced crystallization