Abstract. The ISACC 2015 brought together nearly a hundred scientists in the field of atomic and molecular cluster physics from around the world. We deliver the Editorial of a topical issue compiling/presenting original research results from some of the participants on both experimental and theoretical studies involving research areas from small clusters to extended molecular systems in the field.The idea of this Topical Issue was to collect recent results which have being produced in this area by the international community and, therefore, to provide a current state-of-the-art description of what is being done in the field of structure formation and dynamics of nuclear, atomic and molecular clusters, nano-objects, ensembles of nanoparticles, nanostructures, biomolecules and biomolecular systems. Although the current Topical Issue is not a collection of conference proceedings, the participants of the 7th International Symposium "Atomic Cluster Collisions" (ISACC 2015) made the contribution by submitting their novel and original results.Since 2003, the ISACC meetings [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] promote the growth and exchange of scientific information on the structure, properties and dynamics of complex nuclear, atomic, molecular, cluster, nanoscopic and biological systems studied primarily by means of photonic, electronic, heavy particle and atomic collisions. In ISACC 2015, [7] held at Madrid on the 18-21 July as a satellite of the ICPEAC 2015 1 , particular attention was devoted to dynamical phenomena, many-body effects taking place in clusters, nanostructures, molecular and biological systems, which included problems of fusion, fragmentation, collective electron excitations, phase transitions, and radiation damage among several exciting issues. Both experimental and theoretical aspects of cluster physics uniquely placed between nuclear physics on one hand and atomic, This themed issue, as well as the ISACC 2015 Symposium, attends to a wide range of techniques for spectroscopy and collision dynamics covering an ample field of phenomena. Techniques vary from ab initio calculations and new theoretical models to state of-the-art laboratory methodologies. Thus, this publication brings together theoretical and also experimental articles. Experimental techniques, rapidly becoming more accurate, demand state-of-the-art theoretical methodologies for the interpretation of the measurements. The studied species show sizes and varied compositions from small-to large sized systems. Studies encompass from tri-and tetra-atomic systems and their corresponding clusters containing a large number of units, up to biological species with scores of atoms. Briefly, sessions included topics (see Fig. 1) on many different types of clusters and processes, e.g. weakly bound van der Waals (vdW), metallic [8][9][10], nanodroplets [11][12][13], fullerenes [14,15] PAHs (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons)/carbon-layered [16][17][18][19], water and mixed-water clusters [20][21][22][23][24] and clathrates [25,26]; spectroscopic and collisional proce...