Wolfgang Knoll is Managing Director of AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University Singapore. From 1993 to 2008, Wolfgang Knoll was the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. In 1998, he became a Professor of Chemistry (by courtesy) at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and in 1999, he was appointed Adjunct Professor by Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea.