Jiří Adámek is Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Czech Technical University Prague and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science at Technical University Braunschweig. He has authored and co-authored ten books, including 'Locally Presentable and Accessible Categories' (1994), 'Abstract and Concrete Categories' (1990), and 'Algebraic Theories' (2011). He is an EATCS Fellow.