Dr. Sergey N. Semenov grew up in Podolsk, Russia. He earned his Master’s degree in chemistry with honors from Moscow State University in 2006, and his PhD in chemistry with honors from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, in 2011. He then held a Marie Curie fellowship in the group of Prof. Wilhelm Huck at Radboud University Nijmegen, followed by a postdoctoral position with Prof. George Whitesides at Harvard University (2014–2017). In 2018, he joined the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, where he is currently a Senior Scientist (Assistant Professor). His research focuses on emergent phenomena in nonequilibrium chemical systems.