Rony Snyders received the Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the University of Mons, Mons, Belgium, in 2004. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellowship with the Department of Engineering Physics, Polytechnic School of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, and the Materials Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. In 2007, he was an Associate Professor with the University of Mons, where he is currently a Full Professor and the Head of the Chimie des Interactions Plasma-Surface (ChIPS) Group. Since 2017, he has been a Visiting Professor of the Technical University of Tianjin, Tianjin, China. He is one of the Scientific Director of the Materia Nova Research Center, Mons. He has coauthored more than 180 peer-reviewed papers in thin films synthesis (magnetron sputtering, plasma polymerization,…), of plasma functionalization, and of plasma chemistry. He has an H factor of 27. His current research interests include the utilization of low-pressure plasmas for the processing of materials, especially on the characterization of the plasma phase during these processes. Dr. Snyders is currently the President of the Belgian Vacuum Society (Belvac).