Atsushi Hozumi is a group leader of Advanced Surface and Interface Chemistry Group, Structural Materials Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Nagoya, Japan. He holds Ph.D. from Nagoya University (1997). He joined National Industrial Research Institute of Nagoya (NIRIN), Ministry of Trade and Industry, Japan in 1999 (reorganized as AIST in 2001). He belonged to Nonferrous Metals Division/Nanotechnologies & Advanced Materials' Policy Planning Office, Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry (METI), Tokyo, Japan, as an Industrial Technology Planning Officer in 2006. He also spent 2007 as a visiting scholar at University of Bristol, England (Prof. Stephen Mann’s group) and as a visiting professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA (Prof. Thomas J. McCarthy’s group) and collaboration is still going on. His research focuses on the control of surface wetting/dewetting using monolayers, polymer brushes, hybrid films and so on, and their practical applications. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Materials Letters, Elsevier.