Ulrih Giese received his PHD in chemistry in 1988. He started in 1989 working in rubber research at the German Institute of Rubber Technology (DIK). Currently he is Managing Director of the DIK e. V. and of the “DIK Testing Laboratory”. Since 2010 U. Giese is a distinguished professor at the Leibniz University of Hannover (“Polymer-/Analytical Chemistry”). Since 2013 he is editor of the international Rubber Journal “KGK”.