Dr Witold Bloch is an ARC DECRA fellow at the University of Adelaide, School of Physical Sciences. Dr Bloch is the past recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt post-doctoral fellowship which he carried out in the University of Goettingen and TU Dortmund (Germany). One of his research interests involves the utilisation of metal-organic cages for the development of novel porous nanomaterials. The applications that this research aims to address include gas storage and separation as well as heterogeneous catalysis.