15th International Symposium on Ionic Polymerization (IP'24)

CO2-Based Copolymers as Alternatives to Petroleum-Derived Thermoplastics (PL05)

Prof. Yves GNANOU

KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (KAUST), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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Prof. Yves GNANOU

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Current Position: Ibn Alhaytham Distinguished Professor of Chemistry King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Thuwal, Saudi Arabia Research Field: Utilization of carbon dioxide (CO2) as a sustainable raw material for production of plastics that are fully degradable and eco-friendly alternatives to petroleum-derived, environmentally persistent polymers. Professional Experience: Yves Gnanou has held positions at various institutions around the globe. Starting his professional journey as a CNRS Scientist at Institut C. Sadron from 1984 to 1991, he later had the privilege to be a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA, during 1989-1990. During his association with University of Bordeaux from 1993 to 2007, he was promoted to Director of Research at CNRS and also helmed the Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques (LCPO), a laboratory with 80 personnel. Concurrently, Yves Gnanou served as a Courtesy Professor at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Florida from 2002 to 2007. His leadership skills further shone when he undertook the role of Vice-President for Academic Affairs at the École Polytechnique in Paris, France, holding the position from 2007 to 2012. He then moved to King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, where he began as the Dean of the Division of Physical Science & Engineering,before ascending to the role of Vice-President for Academic Affairs in 2018.

Living Polymerization of Glycolide. A long-standing challenge (PL07)

Prof. Nikos HADJICHRISTIDIS

KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (KAUST), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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Prof. Nikos HADJICHRISTIDIS

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https://polymer.kaust.edu.sa/

Professor Nikos Hadjichristidis is currently Ibn Alhaytham Distinguished Professor of Chemistry (Physical Science and Engineering Division) at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. The research of Professor Hadjichristidis focuses mainly on the synthesis of novel model homopolymers, copolymers with well-defined complex macromolecular architectures (star, comb, cyclic, dendritic, etc.) by using anionic polymerization (AP) high vacuum techniques, as well as combinations of AP with other living and controlled/living polymerization methodologies (polyhomologation, ATRP, RAFT, NMP, Iodine Transfer Polymerization, ROP, ROMP, catalytic, etc.). These polymers are ideal models for checking the theory, understanding and improving the performance of industrial polymers (e.g., polyethylene, thermoplastic elastomers) and are potential candidates for high-tech applications (e.g., nanolithography, drug delivery, high-temperature membranes). His research interests also include biodegradable polyethylenes, vitrimers, circular polymer economy, and non-covalent-bond-based (H-bonding, stereocomplexation) macromolecular architectures.

Cationic Ring Opening (co)Polymerization of 2-Oxazolines and 2-Oxazines (PL03)

Prof. Richard HOOGENBOOM

GHENT UNIVERSITY, Ghent, Belgium
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Prof. Richard HOOGENBOOM

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Prof. Richard Hoogenboom is full professor at Ghent University heading the Supramolecular Chemistry (SC) group that focuses on poly(2-oxazoline)s, supramolecular materials and responsive polymers.. He obtained his PhD degree in 2005 from Eindhoven University of Technology under supervision of Prof. Ulrich S. Schubert and performed postdoctoral research with Prof. Martin Möller (RWTH Aachen) and Prof. Roeland Nolte (Radboud University Nijmegen). Prof. Hoogenboom has published more than 550 refereed scientific articles (27,000+ citations; h-index 75) and he is listed as inventor on 25 patent families. He is currently editor-in-chief for European Polymer Journal and associate editor for Australian Journal of Chemistry. Prof. Hoogenboom is the recipient of the inaugural RSC Polymer Chemistry award (2015), the PI IUPAC young investigator award (2016), the ACS Macromolecules/Biomacromolecules Young Investigator award (2017), the ACS Carl S. Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award (2021), 2022 ACS POLY fellows award and the SPSI 3rd Dr. Sivaram endorsement lecture award (2022). Since January 2018, Prof. Hoogenboom is also cofounder of Avroxa BV that commercializes poly(2-oxazoline)s as Ultroxa®.

Synergistic Developments of Living Ionic and Radical Polymerizations via Reversible Activation of Dormant Species (PL08)

Prof. Masami KAMIGAITO

NAGOYA UNIVERSITY, Nagoya, Japan
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Prof. Masami KAMIGAITO

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http://chembio.nagoya-u.ac.jp/labhp/polymer2/en/index_e.html

Masami Kamigaito is a professor in the Graduate School of Engineering at Nagoya University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University under the direction of Prof. Toshinobu Higashimura in 1993. After conducting postdoctoral research with Prof. Mitsuo Sawamoto, he joined the faculty of Kyoto University in 1995, where he was promoted to an Associate Professor in 1999. In 2003, he moved to Nagoya University as an Associate Professor working with Prof. Yoshio Okamoto and was promoted to a professor in 2004. During 1997–1998, he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University working with Prof. Robert M. Waymouth. His current research interests include living polymerizations, stereospecific polymerizations, sequence-controlled polymers, precision polymer synthesis, bio-based polymers, and degradable polymers.

Dual Catalysis in Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (PL06)

Prof. Krzysztof MATYJASZEWSKI

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, Pittsburgh, United States
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Prof. Krzysztof MATYJASZEWSKI

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Kris Matyjaszewski is J.C. Warner University Professor of Natural Sciences and director of Center for Macromolecular Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He prepares advanced materials for biomedical, environmental, and energy-related applications. In 1994 he discovered Cu-mediated atom transfer radical polymerization, commercialized in 2004 in US, Japan and Europe. He has co-authored >1,200 publications, (>188,000 citations, h-index 208) and 68 US patents. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, European, Australian, Polish, Hungarian, and Georgian Academies of Sciences. He received 2023 NAS Award in Chemical Sciences, 2021 Grand Prix de la Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie, France, 2017 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry, 2015 Dreyfus Prize in Chemical Sciences, 2011 Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, and twelve honorary degrees.

Macromolecular Nucleic Acid Delivery Vehicles via Parallel Experiment and Computation (PL02)

Prof. Theresa REINEKE

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, Minneapolis, United States
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Prof. Theresa REINEKE

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Theresa M. Reineke, Ph.D., is a Prager Chair in Macromolecular Science and a Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota and holds graduate faculty appointments in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Pharmaceutics. Her research group is focused on enabling fundamental and applied technology advancements in three main areas: 1) the design of polymer-based delivery systems for DNA and RNA to treat genetic diseases, 2) the creation of sustainable and environmentally friendly polymers/plastics from naturally occurring chemicals derived from plants, and 3) engineering interactions between small molecules and polymers for active encapsulation, drug delivery, chemical sensing, and network engineering. She is also a co-founder of Nanite Inc. and Liberate Bio, two biotech firms in the field of nucleic acid delivery. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of the American Chemical Society journal Bioconjugate Chemistry and on the Editorial Advisory Boards of the ACS journals Biomacromolecules and ACS Applied Polymer Materials and the RSC journal Polymer Chemistry.

One-Step Synthesis of Multiblock Copolymers Using Alkali Metal Carboxylate Catalyst (PL01)

Prof. Toshifumi SATOH

HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY, Hokkaido, Japan
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Prof. Toshifumi SATOH

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Toshifumi Satoh is a Professor of the Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan and List Sustainable Digital Transformation Catalyst Collaboration Research Platform (ICReDD List-PF), Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery, Hokkaido University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering from Hokkaido University under the supervision of Prof. Kazuaki Yokota and Prof. Toyoji Kakuchi in 1996. He was subsequently appointed as an Instructor in Faculty of Engineering at Hokkaido University in 1996. During this period, he studied in the group of Prof. Bruce M. Novak at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and at North Carolina State University, USA, from 1998–2000 as a post-doctoral fellow. He became an Associate Professor in 2007 and a professor in 2013 at Hokkaido University, Japan. His current fields of interest include topological polymer synthesis and controlled/living polymerization using organocatalysts.

Structure-Activity-Selectivity Relationships in Controlled Polymerization Catalysis Using Renewable Resources (PL04)

Prof. Charlotte WILLIAMS

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Prof. Charlotte WILLIAMS

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Charlotte Williams is a professor of Inorganic Chemistry and an EPSRC Established Career Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. Her research interests are in controlled polymerization catalysis, inorganic and polymer chemistry. She is particularly focussed on carbon dioxide utilization by copolymerization and on the production of bio-derived polyesters, polycarbonates and block polymers. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society. Her work has been recently recognised by the Leverhulme Medal of the Royal Society, The Royal Society of Chemistry Tilden Medal (2021), an OBE for Services to Chemistry (2020), Macro Group UK Medal (2019), DeChema Otto Roelen Catalysis Medal (2018), The UK Catalysis Hub Sir John Meurig Thomas Medal (2017) and the Royal Society of Chemistry Corday Morgan Medal (2016).

Anionic Ring-Opening Copolymerization to Novel Gradient and Random Biobased or Biodegradable Copolymers (PL09)

Prof. Frederik WURM

UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE, Enschede, The Netherlands
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Prof. Frederik WURM

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https://people.utwente.nl/frederik.wurm

Frederik Wurm leads the Sustainable Polymer Chemistry Group at the University of Twente (Enschede, NL) and acts as an Editor for the “European Polymer Journal”. The broad research interests of Frederik Wurm cover the molecular design and development for new synthetic strategies of novel polymeric materials and focus in recent years on the synthesis of novel biodegradable polymers and the modification and formulation of biopolymers, mostly using anionic ring-opening polymerization. The SPC group designs materials with molecular defined functions for degradable polymers and nanocarriers for agricultural or biomedical applications, with a special interest in phosphorus-based polymers and lignin-based materials. Frederik received his Ph.D. in 2009 (JGU, Mainz, D). After a two-year stay at EPFL (CH) as a Humboldt fellow, he joined the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Mainz, D) and finished his habilitation in Macromolecular Chemistry in 2016. In 2020, he was appointed as a full professor at UT. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and his research was awarded several times.

Well-Defined Copolymers for Nanopatterning Applications (IL23)

Prof. Apostolos AVGEROPOULOS

UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA, Ioannina, Greece
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Prof. Apostolos AVGEROPOULOS

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Prof. Apostolos Avgeropoulos is a Full Professor at the Department of Materials Science Engineering (DMSE), University of Ioannina (UoI), Greece. He obtained his B.Sc. in Chemistry from the Chemistry Department, University of Athens in 1992 and his Ph.D. in 1997 in Polymer Science from the same Department and University, under the supervision of Prof. N. Hadjichristidis in collaboration with Prof. E. L. Thomas at DMSE, MIT, USA. He was a post-Doctoral researcher at DMSE-MIT and at the University of Athens/National Center for Scientific Research “DEMOKRITOS” from 1999-2002. In 2003, he started as non-tenured Assistant Professor, got tenure in 2007, promoted to Associate Professor in 2009 and in 2013 he became a full Professor in the same Department, where he continues his research in polymers science & engineering. His current research interests involve high molecular weight copolymers, amphiphilic functionalized block copolymers, nanocrystal/block copolymer composites (structure and structure properties), nano-lithographic and nano-patterning applications of block copolymers with various architectures, among others. He is the Director of the Polymer Science & Engineering Laboratory of DMSE-UoI and the Scientific Responsible for the Electron Microscopy Facility of UoI. His overall funding from various agencies is approximately 7.0 MEuros. He has published 3 book chapters, 1 US patent, 1 EU patent (2 pending), 235 peer-reviewed publications up to date. He has given 38 invited lectures in domestic and foreign Institutions/Companies and has participated in more than 80 national and international conferences with more than 35 invited talks.

Combination of Calcium and Lithium Derivatives for a Stereospecific Anionic Polymerization of Butadiene (IL19)

Prof. Stephane CARLOTTI

UNIVERSITY OF BORDEAUX, Pessac, France
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Prof. Stephane CARLOTTI

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http://www.lcpo.fr

Prof. Stéphane Carlotti obtained is PhD at the University of Montpellier II, France. He is currently working at LCPO (Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques) at the University of Bordeaux. His main research activities are focused on polymer science: from the synthesis to chemical or physical characterization of polymeric materials. He is specifically interested on reactivity modulation in anionic or assimilated polymerization with the objective of proposing new synthesis methodologies to access polymer structures already existing or new. As an example he is working in anionic polymerization of conjugated dienes by available, non-toxic, sustainable and economically competitive elements such as sodium or calcium derivatives for the controlled and stereospecific synthesis of polydienes. Another example is the synthesis of aliphatic polyesters and biodegradable copolymers by ring-opening of bio-sourced lactones.

Cationic Copolymerization of Vinyl Ethers with 2,3-Dihydrofuran (IL18)

Prof. Priyadarsi DE

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA, West Bengal, India
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Prof. Priyadarsi DE

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https://www.iiserkol.ac.in/~p_de/

Dr. Priyadarsi De is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Sciences at IISER Kolkata, India. He received his Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Science, India. After his post-doctoral studies at UMASS Lowell (2002-2006) and Southern Methodist University (2007-2008), he worked in PhaseRx, Inc., Seattle, for 15 months before joining IISER Kolkata. His research group at IISER Kolkata mostly works on controlled synthesis of bio-inspired macromolecular architectures from naturally occurring amino acids and fatty acid based renewable resources for various applications. He is one of the Associate Editors of Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part A: Pure and Applied Chemistry (Taylor & Francis Group, April, 2019 to Present), and Editorial Advisory Board Member of Polymer Chemistry (Royal Society of Chemistry, September 2015 - Present). He published 220 Peer-Reviewed Publications, 15 Patents, 12 Book Chapters. His research group highlights: Graduate Students: Graduated: 17, Current: 13 and Undergraduate Students: Graduated: 27, Current: 3.

The development of User-Friendly Ionic Polymerizations (IL04)

Prof. Brett FORS

CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, United States
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Prof. Brett FORS

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Brett P. Fors was born in Montana and carried out his undergraduate studies in chemistry at Montana State University (2006). He went on to do his Ph.D. (2011) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Professor Stephen L. Buchwald. After his doctoral studies he became an Elings Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara working with Professor Craig J. Hawker. In 2014 he joined the faculty at Cornell University and is currently a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. His group’s research focuses on the development and application of new synthetic methods for polymer science.

Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Architectures as Optical Sensing Materials and Smart Membranes (IL26)

Prof. Markus GALLEI

SAARLAND UNIVERSITY, Saarbrücken, Germany
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Prof. Markus GALLEI

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Markus Gallei holds the Chair of Polymer Chemistry (W3) at the Saarland University. He completed his doctorate in the field of functional metallopolymers at the German Institute for Polymers (DKI) in Darmstadt and at the TU Darmstadt under the supervision of Professor Matthias Rehahn. In 2011 he was a postdoc at the Helmholtz Helmholtz Center Geesthacht in the group of Professor Volker Abetz and worked with membranes based on stimuli-responsive polymers. His research deals with the design and processing of intelligent polymer architectures and polymer particles for applications in the fields of sensors and of sensors and switchable membranes. Since 2021 he has also been the director of SAARENE (the Saarland Center of Energy Materials and Sustainability).

Utilising Group Transfer Polymerisation (GTP) to Design Polymeric Materials (IL13)

Prof. Theoni GEORGIOU

IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF LONDON, London, United Kingdom
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Prof. Theoni GEORGIOU

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http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4474-6931

Prof. Theoni Georgiou is currently a Professor in Polymer Chemistry at the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. She obtained a B.Sc. in Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry from the University of Cyprus. Following her PhD studies, she joined Professor Antonios (Tony) Mikos’ group at Rice University in USA as a postdoctoral fellow. In October 2007 she moved to UK when she was awarded a five-year RCUK Fellowship in Colloidal Nanotechnology at the University of Hull. In 2014 she joined Imperial College as a Lecturer and she was subsequently promoted in a Senior Lecture (2016), Reader (2019) and Professor (2022). She has been an active member of the scientific community; was a member of the Macrogroup committee from 2017 to 2022 and the chair of the committee from 2019 and 2022. She was also a member of the Materials Chemistry Division Council of the Royal Society of Chemistry and of the European Polymer Federation (EPF) council. In 2017 she was awarded the 2016 Macro Group UK Young Researchers Medal. She is a member of the advisory editorial board of Polymer International, Polymer Chemistry and European Polymer Journal. Finally, she is an Associate Editor for European Polymer Journal since 2022.

Polyoxazoline Synthesis for Gene Delivery Applications (IL22)

Prof. Philippe GUÉGAN

SORBONNE UNIVERSITY, Paris, France
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Prof. Philippe GUÉGAN

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Philippe Guégan received a PhD in polymer synthesis from the university Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) in 1992 under the supervision of Dr. S. Boileau. After his study on polymer electrolytes for lithium batteries, he then joined the group of C.W. Macosko to work on polymer blends. He received an assistant professor position in 1994 in the University of Evry to develop cyclodextrin-based polyrotaxanes and polyelectrolytes polymers. He was appointed professor at the university of Evry in 2002 where as a leader of a polymer chemistry team at the laboratory "LAMBE" (cnrs, UMR8587). He joined the Sorbonne Université in 2012, to work on macromolecular engineering using cationic and anionic ring opening polymerization for biomimetic nanochannels synthesis, polymeric vectors for gene delivery developments using renewable resources, as much as possible.

Anionic Polymerisation of Dienes Using Flow Chemistry and in Line Monitoring (IL06)

Prof. David HADDLETON

UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, Coventry, United Kingdom
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Prof. David HADDLETON

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David Haddleton has been working in the area of controlled polymer synthesis for over 25 years since being employed at ICI. His PhD was from the University of York in 1986. He spent one year at the University of Toronto as a PDRA. He joined ICI in 1988 and spent one year at the University of Southern Mississippi. He spent 5 years working on GTP and anionic polymerisation prior to moving to Warwick in 1993 and promoted to full Professor in 1998. He has published >400 papers, has a google h-index = 87 with >25000 citations, graduated 80 PhD students. Current work in the group is in different aspects of developing new polymerisation methodology and using this for novel polymers for industrial applications, polymers for personal care applications, (hair and skin care) and for biomedical and nano medicinal applications, photochemistry, additive manufacturing, anionic polymerisation of dienes and reactions in flow.

Toward Precision Chain Editing of Macromolecules (IL10)

Prof. Junpo HE

FUDAN UNIVERSITY, Shanghai, China
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Prof. Junpo HE

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Junpo He is a professor in the Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai. His research field is the synthesis of precision polymers by living polymerizations, such as anionic polymerization and reversible deactivation radical polymerizations. He got his PhD degree in 1999 from Fudan University, and did PostDoc research in BASF, Ludwigshafen. He worked as an exchanging scholar in University Konstanz in 1996-1997, and revisited there as a DAAD scholar in 2005. He visited Tokyo Institute of Technology as a SPSJ scholar in 2012. He served as a member of international advisory board of Macromolecules (2016-2021) and European Polymer Journal (2015-present). He was co-chairperson of IUPAC ionic polymerization symposium in 2019 (ip’19).

Alternating Anionic Ring-Opening Polymerization of Thiolactones and Epoxides/Cyclocarbonates (IL21)

Dr Nicolas ILLY

SORBONNE UNIVERSITY, Paris, France
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Dr Nicolas ILLY

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Nicolas Illy received a M. Sc. Degree in Chemistry from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie in Montpellier (France) and from Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena (Germany). After completing his PhD in Polymer Science from Paris-Est University under the supervision of Prof. J. Penelle, he obtained a postdoctoral position in Prof. M. Winnik’s group at the University of Toronto (Canada). Subsequently, he joined Prof. David’s group at the Charles Gerhardt Institut (Montpellier, France). In 2013, he joined the Polymer Chemistry Team at Sorbonne University in Paris where he is actually associate professor. His research focuses on macromolecular engineering, anionic ring-opening polymerization, design and development of functional materials for biomedical applications and development of new bio-based materials.

Sequence Control by Anionic Polymerization (IL07)

Prof. Takashi ISHIZONE

TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Tokyo, Japan
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Prof. Takashi ISHIZONE

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Takashi Ishizone received a master’s degree in polymer chemistry from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1988 under the supervision of Professors Seiichi Nakahama and Akira Hirao and started his academic career as an assistant professor in the same institution from 1989. Since 2016, he is a Professor of Department of Chemical Science and Engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology. His main research fields include the living anionic polymerization of new functional monomers and exo-methylene monomers, the synthesis of thermally-stable polymers possessing adamantane frameworks and thermo-responsive polymer showing water-solubility, and the synthesis of sequence-regulated polymers by anionic polymerization.

Tailoring the Structure of Polyphosphoesters Towards Biodegradable Elastomers (IL24)

Prof. Christine JEROME

ULIÈGE, Liege, Belgium
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Prof. Christine JEROME

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Dr. Christine Jérôme is currently full professor at the Chemistry Department of Liege University (Belgium) and director of the Center for Education and Research on Macromolecules (CERM). She is active in the design of polymer biomaterials, tailoring the macromolecular structure to adjust biomaterials properties and reach desired final function for specific applications. She got her PhD in 1999 on the design of conducting polymers as ion exchange resins under the direction of Prof. R. Jérôme at Liege University and experienced a 14-months postdoc at the University of Ulm (Prof. Dr. M. Möller) on the synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles in the frame of Alexander von Humboldt grant.

Cationic Copolymerization of Vinyl Monomers and Cyclic Monomers for Sequence Control, Degradable Polymers, and Polymer Synthesis from Nonhomopolymerizable Monomers (IL05)

Dr Arihiro KANAZAWA

OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Osaka, Japan
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Dr Arihiro KANAZAWA

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https://www.chem.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp/lab/aoshima/e_index.html

Arihiro Kanazawa graduated from Osaka University in 2005 and received his Ph.D. degree from Osaka University in 2010. After studying as a postdoctoral researcher (JSPS Research Fellow) at Nagoya University (Prof. Kamigaito’s group), he moved to Osaka University (Prof. Aoshima’s group; assistant professor, 2011 to 2018; lecturer, 2018 to 2021). Since 2021, he has been working as an associate professor. His research interests include cationic polymerization, copolymerization, vinyl polymerization, ring-opening polymerization, and living polymerization.

Stereoselective Ring-Opening Polymerization of rac-Lactide Catalyzed by a Chiral Bifunctional Superbase (IL16)

Prof. Byeong-Su KIM

YONSEI UNIVERSITY, Seoul, Korea, South
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Prof. Byeong-Su KIM

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Prof. Byeong-Su Kim is an Underwood Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Yonsei University, Republic of Korea. He received his BS and MS in Chemistry from Seoul National University and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 2007. After his postdoctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he started his independent career at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in 2009 and moved to Yonsei University in 2018. His research group investigates a broad range of topics in macromolecular chemistry of novel polymeric materials, including the molecular design and synthesis of functional monomers for polyethers and polyesters, degradable polymers, and self-assembled polymers for therapeutics.

Synthesis of Functional Polyisobutylenes: from Lewis Acids-mediated to Visible Light-Induced Cationic Polymerization of Isobutylene (IL03)

Prof. Sergei KOSTJUK

RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL CHEMICAL PROBLEMS OF THE BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY, Minsk, Belarus
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Prof. Sergei KOSTJUK

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Sergei Kostjuk has received his Ph.D. degree in polymer chemistry in 2002 from Belarusian State University. In 2002, he joined Research Institute for Physical Chemical Problems and since 2008 he is heading the laboratory of catalysis of polymerization processes in the same Institute. He was promoted to an Associated Professor in 2012 and a Professor in 2021 at the Belarussian State University. In cooperation with BASF SE, he has developed several generations of catalysts for the synthesis of highly reactive polyisobutylene. His research interests encompass the areas of polymer synthesis, catalysis, green and sustainable chemistry, and, recently, photoinitiated cationic polymerization and stimuli-responsive polymers. He published 130 peer-reviewed publications and more than 15 patents. He was a supervisor for 11 PhD students and more than 15 Master students.

From Metallic Gyroid Structures to Piezoelectric Nanoporous Networks (IL09)

Prof. Katja LOOS

UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Prof. Katja LOOS

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Katja Loos is Professor at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials of the University of Groningen, holding the chair of Macromolecular Chemistry and New Polymeric Materials. She currently serves as the President of the European Polymer Federation for the period of 2023 to 2025. She specialized in Organic Chemistry and Polymer Chemistry during her university studies at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, Germany and the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, USA. She moved into the field of Enzymatic Polymerizations during her doctoral research at the University of Bayreuth, Germany and the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil. After a postdoctoral research stay at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY, USA she started an independent research group at the University of Groningen. Katja Loos pioneered the field of enzymatic polymerization, especially the biocatalytic synthesis of polysaccharides and polyamides, and the synthesis and self-assembly of PVDF containing block copolymers. Already early in her career Katja Loos was awarded two travel scholarships of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and she received the very prestigious Feodor Lynen Fellowship award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to conduct her postdoctoral research. During her independent research career, on the basis of her unique approach in combining modern polymer synthesis, (macro) molecular self-assembly, and utilization of the arising structures the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded her the prestigious VIDI grant in 2009 and VICI grant in 2014 and the German Research Council (DFG) the Eleonore Trefftz guest professorship within the scope of its excellency initiative. Among others she was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the IUPAC Distinguished Women in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Award and the Team Science Award of the Dutch Research Council (NWO). In 2023 she received the title of Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion. Katja Loos is a Fellow of the Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).

Poly(2-oxazoline)s and Poly(2-oxazine)s: Synthesis of Amphiphilic Gradient and Block Copolymers and some of their Applications (IL08)

Prof. Robert LUXENHOFER

UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI, Helsinki, Finland
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Prof. Robert LUXENHOFER

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Robert Luxenhofer completed his PhD in 2007 at the TU München in polymer chemistry developing a novel polymer functionalization approach since developed further by Serina Therapeutics to introduce the first-in-human poly(2-oxazoline)-drug conjugates. As a postdoc with Alexander V. Kabanov at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, he discovered ultra-high loaded drug formulations and investigated structure dependent endocytosis of polymer amphiphiles. Returning to Germany in 2009, he started to investigate polysarcosine and polypeptoids as biomaterials at the TU Dresden. In 2012, he joined the Julius-Maximilians Universität as an Associate Professor, where he continued working on polypeptoids and ultra-high drug formulations, but also started investigating biofabrication and 3D printing using melt electrowriting. In 2019, he joined the University of Helsinki as a Full Professor. He holds 7 patents and is co-founder of two companies focusing on developing novel polymers for medical applications.

New Monomers, New Structures and New Mechanisms in Carbanionic Polymerization (IL17)

Dr Hongwei MA

DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Dalian, China
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Dr Hongwei MA

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Ma received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Dalian University of Technology in 2005 and 2011, respectively. He conducted his postdoctoral work at the University of Akron (USA), mentored by Professor R. P. Quirk in 2012. In January 2013, he joined the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering at the DUT. His research interests include the theoretical and application studies on the living anionic polymerization.

Chiral Diborane Catalysts for the Preparation of Isotactic Polyethers (IL25)

Dr Stefan NAUMANN

UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG, Freiburg, Germany
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Dr Stefan NAUMANN

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Since 2024, Stefan Naumann is Professor for Macromolecular Chemsitry (W3) at the University of Freiburg (Germany). He received his PhD in 2014 as a member of the Buchmeiser Group (Stuttgart, Germany) and was subsequently granted a DFG research stipend to join Prof. Andrew P. Dove at the University of Warwick (UK) as a PostDoc. After returning to Stuttgart, he successfully concluded his habilitation in polymer chemistry in 2021. Since 2018 he is PI in the collaborative research council (CRC) 1333 (“Molecular Heterogeneous Catalysis in Confined Geometries”). His current research interests encompass the development of polymerization catalysts (organocatalysis, dual catalysis, organometallic single-site complexes) as well as the preparation of ordered mesoporous carbon materials and their application in catalysis.

Implementing Ionic Polymerizations in 3D Printing, Importance of Proper Photo Base Design (IL15)

Dr Haritz SARDON

UPV/EHU - POLYMAT, San Sebastián, Spain
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Dr Haritz SARDON

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Dr. Haritz Sardon Muguruza is associate professor at the University of Basque Country and group leader at POLYMAT. He earned his BS in Chemistry and his MS in Applied Chemistry and Polymeric Materialsfrom the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU). He got his PhD also from the UPV-EHU with the especial mention of "Doctor Europeus". During the mentioned PhD, he spent 6 months at Laboratoire de Chimie et Procédés de Polymérisation (LCPP), CNRS, Villeurbanne, France under the supervision of Dr. Elodie Bourgeat-Lami and Dr. Muriel Lansalot. His overall research aims to prepare new functional polymeric materials using sustainable polymerization processes for advanced engineering and biomedical applications. Specially, using “green” polymerization processes such as monomers from polymer recycling, reagents from renewable sources or the use of less hazardous organocatalysts to prepare high added value polymers.

Inside Block Copolymer Micelles - a Journey of Crosslinking Strategies and Along Interfacial Boundaries (IL01)

Prof. Felix SCHACHER

UNIVERSITY OF JENA, Jena, Germany
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Prof. Felix SCHACHER

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Felix H. Schacher studied chemistry at the Universities of Bayreuth (Germany) and Lund (Sweden) and obtained his diploma in 2006. After his PhD under the supervision of Axel H. E. Müller in 2009, he joined the group of Ian Manners at the University of Bristol as DAAD postdoctoral fellow. In 2010 he was appointed Juniorprofessor at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena and became Full Professor at this institution in 2015. He has been awarded the Dr.-Hermann-Schnell-Fellowship in 2013, the Carl-Duisberg Memorial Award of the GDCh in 2020, and the Lothar-Späth-Award in 2023 as part of the start-up company PolyTives. His scientific interests include controlled/living polymerization techniques, block copolymers, polyelectrolytes, and polyampholytes – all in the context of using (directed) self-assembly processes for material design in the fields of membranes, hybrid materials, and biomedicine.

Polymerization of Bio-Sourced Monomers (IL20)

Prof. Helmut SCHLAAD

UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM, Potsdam, Germany
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Prof. Helmut SCHLAAD

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https://www.chem.uni-potsdam.de/groups/polymer/

Helmut Schlaad has been working in the field of living/controlled polymerization for more than 25 years. He received his PhD under the supervision of Axel H. E. Müller at the University of Mainz in 1997. Afterwards he spent one year with Rudolf Faust at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA. In 1999, he started his works for habilitation at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids in Potsdam-Golm, Germany, mentored by Markus Antonietti, which he completed in 2004. After 10 years being senior scientist at the May Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, he was promoted to professor (W2) at the University of Potsdam, Germany, in 2014. His research activities include the synthesis of bio-sourced polymer materials by ionic, controlled radical and ring-opening metathesis polymerization techniques, stimuli-responsive and degradable polymers, and polymer self-assembly.

Kraton Polymers: From Polymer Design to Application (IL02)

Dr Marianne STOL

KRATON, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Dr Marianne STOL

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Marianne Stol is a staff scientist at Kraton Polymers. She obtained her PhD at Utrecht University studying organometallic chemistry in 2005. Also, in 2005 she started working for Kraton as a scientist. Her research interest is anionic polymerization and translation of polymer design into process. In practice structure, property and synthesis are all aspects that need to be considered together when working on innovation in polymer materials. She has (co)authored several patents and leads polymer and process innovation projects within Kraton Polymers.

Organocatalyzed Group Transfer Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly and Stereoselective Ring-Opening Polymerization (IL12)

Prof. Daniel TATON

UNIVERSITY OF BORDEAUX, Pessac, France
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Prof. Daniel TATON

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Daniel Taton holds a professorship position at the University of Bordeaux, France and develops his research activities at the Laboratory of Organic Polymer Chemistry (LCPO) of which he is the deputy director since 2018. These activities are focused on both “catalysis of polymerization” and “polymerization for catalysis”. He is interested in small and easily accessible "task-specific" organic molecules to broaden the range of monomers polymerizable by an organic catalysis pathway, possibly under conditions that are easy to implement, in order to access a variety of metal-free specialty polymers. His team has also developed recyclable polymeric supports for the compartmentalization of catalysts, which provides unique catalytic activity in benchmark reactions of molecular chemistry, including in aqueous media. D. Taton has co-authored about 170 publications in peer-review journals, 15 book chapters and has filed 15 patents.

AROMA – Anionic Ring-Opening Monomer Addition of Allyl Glycidyl Ether (IL11)

Prof. Patrick THEATO

KIT-KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Prof. Patrick THEATO

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https://www.itcp.kit.edu/theato

Patrick Theato studied chemistry at University of Mainz, Germany, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst USA, and obtained his doctorate degree from University of Mainz in 2001. After postdoctoral studies at Seoul National University, South Korea, and at Stanford University, USA, he completed his Habilitation at University of Mainz in 2007. From 2009 to 2012 he held a joint appointment at Seoul National University. In 2011, he accepted a prize senior lectureship at University of Sheffield, UK. From 2011 to 2017 he had been an W2 professor for polymer chemistry at University of Hamburg, Germany. Since 2017 he is full professor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. His research interests include: precision polymer synthesis, post-polymerization functionalization, smart polymer materials, hydrogels, polymeric shape anisotropic nanoobjects, inverse vulcanization, sulfur containing polymers, functional polymer surfaces, materials for energy generation and storage. ORCID: 0000-0002-4562-9254

Synthesis of End-Functionalized Poly(ethylene glycol) Streamlined By Chemoselective Organocatalysis (IL14)

Prof. Junpeng ZHAO

SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Guangzhou, China
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Prof. Junpeng ZHAO

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Junpeng Zhao received his B.S. (2005) and Ph.D. (2010) from University of Science and Technology of China under the supervision of Prof. Guangzhao Zhang. From 2007 to 2009, he undertook a CSC-supported joint Ph.D. appointment in National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece, under the supervision of Prof. Stergios Pispas. He was then a postdoctoral researcher at Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany, with Prof. Helmut Schlaad and Prof. Markus Antonietti (2011-2012), and at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, with Prof. Nikos Hadjichristidis (2012-2014). In the beginning of 2015, he joined South China University of Technology (School of Materials Science and Engineering) and began his professorship. His research mainly focuses on synthesis and functionalization of polymers by ionic and organocatalytic/metal-free methods, and also includes synthesis of polymers from (bio)renewable resources, structure-property relationship of polymers especially in terms of interactions with bio-entities.