ACS Macro Letters 10th Anniversary webinar series

ACS Macro Letters 10th Anniversary Webinar series:

Future Opportunities and Challenges for Polymers

Thursday, December 9, 2021

6:00PM EST | 5:00PM CST | 4:00PM MST | 3:00PM PST

ACS Macro Letters 10th Anniversary Webinar Series:

Future Opportunities and Challenges for Polymers

In celebration of ACS Macro Letters 10th anniversary, we are hosting a quarterly webinar. We have invited a panel of speakers with a variety of expertise focusing on different topics within polymer science.

Join us on Thursday, December 9th, 2021 at 6:00 PM EST for the fourth installment of the series. Juan de Pablo (University of Chicago), Thomas Epps (University of Delaware), and Tanja Junkers (Monash University) will be speaking on Future Opportunities and Challenges for Polymers. Afterwards, there will be a Q&A session with Editor-in-Chief, Stuart J. Rowan, and Associate Editors, Brent Sumerlin, Chris Weder, Theresa Reineke, and Guosong Chen.

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Juan de Pablo

University of Chicago

As Vice President for National Laboratories, Science Strategy, Innovation, and Global Initiatives, Juan de Pablo drives the expanding reach of the University of Chicago’s science, technology, and innovation efforts. As the Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering, he focuses on polymers, biological macromolecules, and liquid crystals in his research. He has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Physical Society, and is a foreign corresponding member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.

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Thomas Epps

University of Delaware

Thomas is the Allan and Myra Ferguson Distinguished Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware (UD) with a joint appointment in Materials Science & Engineering and an affiliated appointment in Biomedical Engineering. He is Director of the Center for Research in Soft matter & Polymers (CRiSP), Director of the new NSF MRSEC at UD called CHARM (Center for Hybrid, Active, and Responsive Materials) and Deputy Director of the new DOE EFRC at UD called CPI (Center for Plastics Innovation). He joined UD in 2006 after a stint as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at NIST. His research interests include nanostructured assemblies for targeted drug delivery and gene therapy, polymeric materials for bio-separation and ion-conduction membranes, nanostructured soft materials from biobased and plastics waste feedstocks, and polymer films for nanotemplating.

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Tanja Junkers

Monash University

Tanja Junkers graduated with a PhD degree in physical chemistry from Goettigen University in Germany in 2006, having worked on the determination of kinetic rate coefficients for radical reactions during polymerizations. In the two years that followed, she was a research associate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, shifting her focus more and more towards synthetic polymer chemistry. Between 2008 and beginning of 2010 she was a senior research scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany in the group of Prof. Christopher Barner-Kowollik. Early 2010 she was then appointed professor at Hasselt University in Belgium, where she founded the Polymer Reaction Design group. January 2018 she joined Monash University as full professor, focusing on her work on continuous flow polymerizations, (nano)particle formation and design of complex precision polymers.