Prof Tanja Junkers graduated with a PhD degree in physical chemistry from Goettigen University in Germany in 2006, having worked on the determination of kinetic rate coefficients for radical reactions during polymerizations. Following that she was a research associate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Between 2008 and 2010 she was appointed as senior research scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Early 2010 she was then became professor at Hasselt University in Belgium, where she founded the Polymer Reaction Design group. 2018 she joined Monash University in Australia as full professor, focusing on her work on continuous flow polymerizations, digitization of chemistry, (nano)particle formation and design of complex precision polymers. She has published over 200 articles and is a thought leader in the field of polymer synthesis in continuous flow.