Tamás Beke-Somfai is a group leader in the Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry at the Research Centre for Natural Sciences (RCNS), Budapest. He obtained his MSc (2001) in chemistry and his PhD in structural chemistry (2007) at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow, and later as a guest researcher at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (2008–2015). He returned to Hungary in 2015 as a Marie-Sklodowska Curie fellow and has been leading the Biomolecular Self-Assembly group under the “Momentum” Excellence Programme of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA). His research field involves theoretical and experimental investigation of natural and non-natural peptide assemblies, enzyme catalysis, polarized light spectroscopy, and membrane-biomolecule interactions.