The Angewandte Author Profiles celebrate an author’s 10th, 25th, 50th, or 100th article in the journal since 2000. This month, the following authors have had their 10th paper published.

Daniel J. Mindiola, Indiana University, USA:

In my opinion, the word “scientist” means being one lucky human being amongst approximately 400 ignorant souls.

Dieter Schlüter, ETH Zürich, Switzerland:

The biggest challenge facing scientists is to not surrender in fighting the growing importance of business strategies in science.

Takashi Kato, The University of Tokyo, Japan:

My favorite piece of research is the story behind the early development of conductive polymers: the preparation of a poly(acetylene) film by serendipity and the finding of the effects of doping.

Buxing Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China: The best advice I have ever been given is to do original work because the time for a researcher is very limited.