Per Zetterlund graduated from The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH, Sweden) in 1994, obtained his Ph.D. at Leeds University (UK) in 1998, and subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia). In 1999, he became Assistant Professor at Osaka City University (Japan), and moved to Kobe University (Japan) in 2003, where he was promoted to Associate Prof in 2005. Since 2009, he is working at The Cluster for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD) in the Schol of Chemical Engineering at The University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), where he is full Professor since 2013. Prof Zetterlund’s research is concerned with the synthesis of polymer, polymeric nanoparticles, as well as hybrid polymeric materials with a variety of applications ranging in paints and coatings, materials science and energy. He has published 256 peer-reviewed papers and has an H-index of 59.

Webpage : https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-zetterlund

Dr. Timo Melchin graduated in chemistry from University of Hamburg in 2008 and received his doctoral degree in 2011. He joined Wacker Chemie AG as R&D manager in 2011 and started his industrial career in research and development in Wacker’s POLYMERS division. He became Senior R&D manager in 2016 and R&D group leader in 2018, heading a R&D segment group with focus on product-, process- and application-oriented research and development. His research interests focus on pressure polymerization in dispersed media, functional protective colloids, radical ring-opening polymerization, kinetic modelling of polymerization reactions and spray drying processes.

Webpage :

https://www.linkedin.com/in/timo-melchin-824508182/?originalSubdomain=de

Patrick Lacroix-Desmazes is Research Director at CNRS. He graduated in 1992 from the National Graduate School of Chemistry of Montpellier. He obtained his PhD degree in 1996 at the University of Lyon under the supervision of Alain Guyot (one of the founders of the “Emulsion Club” in France). After working at BP Chemicals in 1997, he joined the CNRS in Montpellier and was promoted to CNRS Research Director in 2009. He is the deputy director of the polymers department at the Charles Gerhardt Institute in Montpellier. His research interests include reversible-deactivation radical polymerizations, synthesis of polymer colloids and hybrid materials in aqueous media, synthesis and utilization of polymers in supercritical carbon dioxide, as well as green chemistry and circular economy. He has been named Distinguished Member of the French Chemical Society in 2018.

Webpage : https://www.icgm.fr/patrick-lacroix-desmazes/

After completing a Master degree in materials chemistry from the University of Bordeaux in 2007, Dr. Julien Pinaud completed his PhD in polymer chemistry at LCPO (Bordeaux, france) in 2010 under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Taton and Dr. Yves Gnanou. He then joined the laboratory of Prof. Michael Cunningham in the chemical engineering department of Queen’s University in Canada (Kingston, Ontario) as a postdoctoral researcher, where he remained until he was appointed as lecturer of University of Montpellier in September 2012. In parallel to his teaching activities within the materials science and engineering department of the IUT of Nîmes, Julien Pinaud develops his research activities within the Chemistry and MacroMolecular Materials department of the Charles Gerhardt Institute in Montpellier (UMR 5253). His research interests focus on polymer synthesis using green processes (photochemistry, mechanochemistry, organocatalysis). In 2022, he obtained the Accreditation to Direct Research (HDR) on “Polymer synthesis by ring-opening polymerization using green processes” and was appointed head of the materials science and engineering department of the IUT of Nimes.

Webpage :

https://www.linkedin.com/in/julien-pinaud-32bba915/?originalSubdomain=fr