Zeynep Altintas is a full professor and the Chair of Bioinspired Materials and Biosensor Technologies at the University of Kiel, Germany. She has been the Head of Biosensors and Receptor Development Group at the Technical University of Berlin since 2016. She completed her Ph.D. on biomedical sensors at the age of 25 with the outstanding Ph.D. student award. Her Ph.D. period brought her several other research prizes and fellowships. Following a one-year postdoc position at the Cranfield Biotechnology Centre, she continued her academic career as a faculty member of Biomedical Engineering at Cranfield University (the UK) until 2016. She leads an interdisciplinary research group in the domains of biosensor technologies, computational chemistry, receptor design, functional polymers and their applications in (bio)chemical sciences, nanomaterials applications, and design, synthesis, and characterization of biomimetic materials. She has >170 publications in these fields, including books, journal articles, book chapters, patent applications, and conference papers. She has supervised more than 35 Ph.D. and M.Sc. students and mentored seven post-doctoral fellows. She has delivered plenary and invited talks at numerous international conferences and world-renowned institutes to date. Her reputation is recognized by many prestigious international awards and grants for her research. Among others are the Life Science Bridge Award, the Royal Society of Chemistry Research Award, the Marie Curie Individual Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, the TUBITAK Fellowship for Internationally Recognized Scientists, the Travel Grants from the British Council (2014‒2016), and several best poster, oral presentation, and paper awards. Since 2012, she has secured 15 research grants from the national/international funding institutions and industry. She serves as a referee for numerous high-impact journals, and for several funding research institutions including the European Union (EU), the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Dutch Research Council (NWO), the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), the French National Research Agency (ANR), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) & EU Cofund Projects, and the Wisconsin Groundwater Coordinating Council (USA). She is an editorial board member of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research, Scientific Reports, Micromachines, and Materials. She takes parts in the organization and scientific committees of several international conferences. She is also a member of RSC since 2012 and holds visiting professorships in various EU countries.