Konstantinos Stamatis is a PhD student in the Materials Science and Engineering department at Texas A&M University. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the Department of Chemistry at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and completed his Master of Science degree in a collaborative program between the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the National Centre of Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’ and the Department of Chemistry at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Konstantinos joined the Ware Lab and Sukhishvili Lab in August 2023. His research interests center on the development of innovative materials that combine Dynamic Polymer Networks with Liquid Crystals Elastomers, with the goal of creating stimuli-responsive materials for biomedical applications.