Dr. rer. nat G?nter Beyer is Manager of the physical and chemical laboratories at Kabelwerk EUPEN AG (Belgium). He received his PhD in organic chemistry and photochemistry in 1984 from RWTH Aachen University (Germany) and started to work at Kabelwerk Eupen in the same year. Since 1996 he is responsible for the R&D activities for material development and heads the chemical-physical laboratory. With more than 30 years of experience in polymer science and applications, Dr. Beyer is regularly acting as chairman and speaker at many international conferences, especially in the field of flame retardancy, nanocomposites and polymer science. In 2003 and also in 2004 he received the Jack Spergel Memorial Award for his fundamental work on nanocomposites by organoclays and carbon nanotubes as new classes of flame retardants for polymers.