Keynote Speakers
Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik – GERMANY
Chair of Preparative Polymer Chemistry
Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry
University of Karlsruhe
Presentation title: High Resolution Mass Spectrometry as a Polymer Characterization Tool for Living Polymers and Their Conjugates
BIO: Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik studied chemistry at the Universities of Konstanz and Goettingen in Germany. He completed a PhD in Physical Chemistry at the University of Göttingen, before joining the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, where he led a large research group at the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD) until mid-2008 as Full Professor of Polymer Science. He is currently the Chair of Preparative Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Barner-Kowollik has published over 150 peer reviewed research papers, over
122 conference papers/abstracts and 7 book chapters on conventional and living free radical polymerization, ranging from fundamental mechanistic and kinetic investigations to complex architecture polymer synthesis and polymer characterization. He is the editor of the 'Handbook of RAFT Polymerization' (Wiley-VCH, 2008). He has received several prestigious awards for his work, including an Australian Professorial Fellowship from the Australian Research Council, the Rennie Medal of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and the Edgeworth David Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales; he was the Chair of the Polymer Division of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (2006/2007) and currently serves on the editorial board of Macromolecules, Progress in Polymer Science, Macromolecular Theory and Simulations and Macromolecular Rapid Communications.
His main research interests range from the synthesis of complex macromomolecular architectures via living radical polymerization and their applications, polymer reaction kinetics and mechanism to high resolution mass spectrometry on polymer systems.
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Professor Charles Beatty – USA
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of South Florida
Presentation title: The Use of Super-critical Carbon Dioxide to Enhance the Degree of Reaction for Grafting to Make Copolymers
BIO: Professor Beatty received his BS in Chemical Engineering from P
urdue in 1965 and his MS in Chemical Engineering from Case-Western Reserve University in 1968. In 1970 he received is MS in Polymer Science and Engineering from University of Massachusetts and then completed his PhD in Polymer Science and Engineering in 1972.
From 1972 until 1979 Professor Beatty work at Xerox during which time he taught Chemical and Mechanical Polymer Engineering courses at the University of Rochester. During 1978 Professor Beatty took a sabbatical from Xerox to teach at the University of Illinois.
Professor Beatty joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida in June, 1979 as a full professor. In 1984 he founded the Polymer Processing and Properties Centre at the University and has been its only Director.
Professor Beatty’s research has been varied but has focused on polymer processing including reactive extrusion and super-critical carbon dioxide processing, linear and non-linear mechanical properties with emphasis on high strain rate behaviour, characterization of polymeric systems. Nano modified systems are significant systems of research interest-ranging from ductile cement, to non-glass blast windows and low permeability films and coatings.
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Professor Christopher Bowman – USA
Associate Dean for Research
Patten Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Clinical Professor of Restorative Dentistry and
Co-Director of the NSF I/UCRC for Fundamentals and
Applications and Photopolymerizations
University of Colorado
Presentation title: Photochemical and Thermally Adaptable Networks
BIO: Professor Christopher N Bowman is currently the James and Catherine Patten Endowed Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Associate Dean for Research at the University of Colorado. Professor Bowman is also the Co-Director of the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Fundamentals and Applications of Photopolymerizations. He received his BS and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University in 1988 and 1991, respectively. After receiving his PhD, he began his academic career at the University of Colorado in January of 1992 as an Assistant Professor. Since that time, Professor Bowman had built a program focused on the fundamentals and applications of crosslinked polymers formed via photopolymerization reactions. In the broad areas of the fundamentals of polymerization reaction engineering, polymer chemistry, crosslinked polymers, photopolymerizations and biomaterials, Professor Bowman has published more than 180 papers and been recognized with awards from the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Chemical Engineering, the Materials Research Society, and the Society for Biomaterials.
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Professor John Dorgan – USA
Department of Chemical Engineering
Colorado School of Mines
Presentation title:
Ecobionanocomposites: A New Class of Green Materials
BIO: John R. Dorgan is currently Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines where he also serves as the Site Director of the Colorado Center for Biofuels and Biorefining (C2B2). He received his BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and his PhD, also in Chemical Engineering, from the University of California at Berkeley. Subsequently, he completed postdoctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany. He began his academic career at the Colorado School of Mines in January of 1993. Since that time, he has published over 50 papers on a wide range of subjects in polymer engineering and science. Professor Dorgan feels that ecological concerns are a predominant research motivator for the 21st century; humanity must develop sustainable systems to satisfy its need for materials and fuels. His efforts are aimed at improving the efficiency of present systems while working to develop new technologies that are inherently more environmentally benign and sustainable. His work emphasizes developing new bioplastics and bioplastic nanocomposites which are based on renewable resources. In 1999 he founded the small company PolyNew Inc. which develops customized bioplastic formulations. In 2005, he was elected President of the Bioenvironmental Polymer Society. In 2006 he helped organize C2B2, an industry sponsored research center involving faculty and staff from the Colorado School of Mines, the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado State University, and the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
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Professor Karsten Haupt – FRANCE
Compiègne University of Technology
Centre de Recherches de Royallieu
Presentation title: Nanostructured molecularly imprinted polymers as synthetic receptors for microsensors and biochips
BIO: Karsten Haupt studied Biochemistry at the University of Leipzig, 
Germany, where he received an MSc Degree in 1991. In 1994 he obtained his PhD in Bioengineering from Compiègne University of Technology, France. After a one-year lectureship at Compiègne University, he left for a three years post-doc at Lund University, Sweden where he worked on molecular imprinting with Klaus Mosbach. After returning to France he spent one year as a researcher at INSERM, Paris, before joining the University of Paris 12 as an assistant professor in 1999. In 2003 he was appointed full Professor of Nanobiotechnology at Compiègne University of Technology, France. Since 2001 he has also been a Guest Scientist at Lund University, Sweden. His present research interests include affinity technology, chemical and biosensors, molecular imprinting and synthetic receptors, biomimetic polymers and nanostructured materials. Karsten Haupt is also co-founder and scientific advisor of the French company PolyIntell.
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Dr Wayne Hayes – UK
Department of Chemistry
The University of Reading
Presentation title: Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Supramolecular Polymers
BIO: I gained my PhD on Self-Assembly from the University of Birmingham in 1996 under the tutelage of Professor Sir J Fraser Stoddart and then took up a postdoctoral fellowship in the polymer research group of Professor Jean Fréchet, initially at Cornell University and then at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1997 I returned to the UK to a lectureship at Nottingham Trent University and then moved to my present post at the University of Reading in 1999. In 2005 I was awarded the MacroGroup UK ‘Young Researchers’ medal for my research on novel hyperbranched polymers and in 2006 I was promoted to Reader at Reading. The primary focus of my research is to generate novel polymeric materials using either state-of-the-art synthetic chemistry methods or molecular recognition phenomena. At present my research is focussed upon three main areas: i. supramolecular polymers, ii. polymer synthesis using photochemistry and iii. the development of novel dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers.
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Dr Michael Leeson - BELGIUM
Presentation title:
Photoresist Materials Challenges for Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography
BIO: Dr. Michael Leeson is a senior researcher for Intel Corporation, primarily in the EUV Lithography group within Intel's Components Research organization in Hillsboro, Oregon USA. He is currently on a long-term assignment to the IMEC center for advanced research in microelectronics in Leuven, Belgium. After obtaining a bachelor’s degree at Boston University in 1993, Dr. Leeson completed his doctoral research in chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin with Dr. C. Grant Willson. His research focused on photo-active-compound synthesis and kinetics for DUV lithography. Dr. Leeson joined Intel in 1998 to work on the transfer of lithography process technologies from development to manufacturing. His research interests at Intel shifted in 2002 to novel polymers and development of unconventional lithography processes for memory technologies. Dr. Leeson joined Intel's Components Research group in 2005 to investigate photoresist materials for EUV Lithography and accepted a long-term assignment to IMEC in 2007, continuing to research new materials for EUVL and other emerging lithographic techniques. Through Intel's research collaborations, Dr. Leeson has the opportunity to work closely with universities, industry consortia, national laboratories and international research institutions in an effort to provide the semiconductor industry with both a fundamental understanding of the lithographic function of current materials and new solutions for its future patterning needs.
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Assistant Professor Dr Katja Loos – THE NETHERLANDS
Department of Polymer Chemistry,
University of Groningen
Presentation title: Enzymatic polymerizations – Routes to novel polymer systems and alternative ways to known materials
BIO: Katja Loos is an Assistant Professor for Polymer Chemistry at th
e Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She studied Chemistry at the University of Mainz, Germany where she specialized in Organic Chemistry and Polymer Chemistry. She received her doctoral degree for her work on polysaccharide hybrid materials via enzymatic grafting polymerizations from the University of Bayreuth, Germany. During her postdoctoral stay (Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, USA) her research focused on the interaction of biocatalysts with well-defined surfaces and interfaces as well as on the modification of polymers by enzymatic reactions.
Her main research interests are currently the different aspects of enzymatic polymerizations, biocatalytic modifications of polymers and polysaccharides, the interaction of proteins with specialized surfaces, living polymerization techniques and magnetic and semiconducting nanomaterials.
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Professor Yiu-Wing Mai – AUSTRALIA
Professor/University Chair in Mechanical Engineering
Centre for Advanced Materials Technology (CAMT)
School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic
Engineering, University of Sydney
Presentation title:
Deformation and Failure Mechanisms in
Polyamide/Clay Nanocomposites
BIO: Professor Yiu-Wing Mai is a Mechanical Engineering Alumnus of the University of Hong Kong having completed BSc (Eng) and awarded the Williamson Prize in 1969, PhD in 1972 and DSc in 1999. He also obtained DEng from Sydney University in 1999. He previously worked in the US (Ann Arbor and NIST), the UK (Imperial College) and Hong Kong (HKUST and CityU) Prof Mai is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and University Chair at the University of Sydney.
Professor Mai’s major research interests are on the basic understanding of processing-microstructure-property relationships, particularly the fracture and mechanical behaviors of a broad range of advanced materials including polymer blends, ceramics, cementitious materials, hard surface coatings and fibre composites. His current projects are related to polymer and ceramic based nanocomposites, and fracture mechanics of smart materials.
Professor Mai is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Science. He is also a Fellow of ASME, IEAust and HKIE.
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Dr Tony McNally – IRELAND
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Queen’s University, Belfast
Presentation title:
Electrical and Rheological Percolation of Polymer Carbon Nanotube Composites 
BIO: Dr Tony McNally holds a B.Sc(Honours) in Applied Chemistry and received a PhD in Polymer Science from Queen's University Belfast. Subsequently, he was an IRTU Research Fellow in Chemical Engineering at Queen's before spending 5 years leading the research effort for a large multinational developing thermoplastic elastomers and polymer nanocomposites. In 2002 he returned to Queen's University as a faculty member, joining the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. His research interests are focused on: 1) the functionalisation of nanoparticles, including the use of ionic liquids to modiify layered silicates and non-covalent functionalisation of carbon nanotubes; 2) polymer nanocomposite drug delivery; 3) polymer carbon nanotube composites; 4) ballistic applications of polymer-POSS nanocomposites; 5) the use of magnetic fields and melt processing techniques to orientate carbon nanotubes in polymers.
Professor Toshihiko (Tossy) Nagamura - JAPAN
Department of Applied Chemistry
Faculty of Engineering
Kyushu University
Presentation Title: Polymers Showing Unique Photoresponses in Wide Range of Time and Wavelength Domains for Applications to Optical Information Processing
BIO: Professor Nagamura studied tensile deformation of polymer fibers at the molecular level by Electron Spin Resonance at Kyushu University and received PhD in 1974. After completing postdoctoral studies at the City College of New York, Midland Macromolecular Institute, and University of Utah for three years, he began his academic career at Kyushu University in 1978 and was promoted to an associate professor in 1980. He became a full rofessor at Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University in 1990 and moved to the present position in 2003. He published over 300 papers and 20 patents in polymer science, photoredox reactions in organized molecular assemblies, photoelectric and spectroscopic properties of Langmuir-Blodgett films, ultrafast dynamics of ion-pair charge transfer complexes, optical amplification of the second and third order nonlinear optical properties, synthesis of new functional polymers, high performance chemical sensing, and optical probing of polymer thin films. He received several awards including the Award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan, and the Wilsmore Fellow Award from the University of Melbourne. His present interests are to study molecular motions of polymers on/near substrate surface of very thin films with evanescent light, development of electrochromic polymers for paper-like display, and application of spatially confined light to enhanced fluorescence excitation and optical modulation of reflectance.
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Professor James Runt – USA
Department of Materials Science and Engineering Chair
Intercollege Materials Science and Engineering
Graduate Program
Penn State University
Presentation title: Ionic conductivity and molecular mobility of ‘single ion’ polymer electrolytes
BIO: Dr James Runt currently holds the position of Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Penn State University. He also serves as coordinator of Penn State’s campus-wide Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Degree Program. Jim is the author of >150 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and served as an editor of the ACS Professional Reference Series text: Dielectric Spectroscopy of Polymeric Materials: Fundamentals and Applications. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and has been recently elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers.
Jim’s research interests are in the general area of polymer physical chemistry and his research group is working on three principle topics at present:
1) Ion and polymer dynamics of ‘single ion’ conductors and more conventional ion-containing polymer systems. We are also investigating segmental and local dynamics of polymer blends and solutions exhibiting inter- and intramolecular H-bonding, as well as blends containing crystalline polymers.
2) Polyurethane segmented block copolymers. This work focuses on the role of hard and soft segment chemistries on nanodomain phase separated morphology and unlike segment mixing. Chemistries have been chosen to reflect those of interest as blood-contacting biomaterials.
3) Crystalline polymers derived from renewable agricultural resources. Recent research has focused on the investigation of self-assembly of linear polysaccharides from aqueous solution and on developing an understanding of ion conductivity in similar biopolymers. Of continuing interest is the role of defective stereoisomers on crystallization, morphology, and dynamics of poly(lactic acid) copolymers.
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Dr Manfred Stamm – GERMANY
Physikalische Chemie und Physik der Polymere
Leibniz-Institut fuer Polymerforschung Dresden
Presentation title: Functional and Nanostructured Polymer Surfaces: From Brushes to Nanotemplates
BIO: Prof. Dr. Manfred Stamm is professor for Physical Chemistry of Polymeric Materials at the Technical University Dresden and head of IPF-Institute o
f Physical Chemistry and Physics of Polymers at Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Germany (www.ipfdd.de). His main activities are in nanostructured materials, polymer interfaces, mechanical properties and biocompatible materials. He studied physics at University of Frankfurt am Main and at Bristol University in England for one year. In 1974 he obtained his diploma in solid state physics (measurements of neutron diffraction and calculation of lattice dynamics). In 1979 he finished his PhD at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of University of Mainz with Prof. Dr. E. W. Fischer (neutron scattering and magneto-optic measurements) During this time he continued at CNRS/ Max-Planck Institute of Solid State Physics in Grenoble, France for three years. From 1979 - 1985 Prof. Dr. Stamm was the staff scientist at Institute of Solid State Research at Research Center Jülich (small-angle neutron scattering for chain conformations, synthesis of (conductive) polymers) and 1984 became a visiting scientist to Brookhaven National Laboratory/ United States (neutron reflectometry, polymer interface investigations, interdiffusion studies). He then joined the Max-Planck Institute of Polymer Research in Mainz as a staff scientist and project leader (interfaces between polymers, structure and conformation, phase transitions, development of scattering techniques) and subsequently received his professorship at Dresden in 1999. He is author of more than 300 publications in international journals, 6 patents, and has been involved in the organisation of several international conferences.
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