Brent Sumerlin is the George Bergen Butler Chair in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Florida. Sumerlin is an associate editor for ACS Macro Letters and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award, Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator Award, the Hanwha-Total IUPAC Award, Mark Scholar Award, the Florida Award, the NSF Creativity Award, and the UF Doctoral Dissertation Mentoring/Advising Award. He is the Director of the Butler Polymer Research Laboratory and the UF Center for Macromolecular Science & Engineering.