Vibrant Macromolecular Science at the 30th Australasian Polymer Symposium

Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik – Associate Editor of the Australian Journal of Chemistry – studied chemistry at the Universities of Konstanz and Göttingen in Germany. He completed a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at the University of Göttingen, before joining the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, where he led a research group as Full Professor at the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design until mid-2008. He is currently Full Professor and Chair of Preparative Macromolecular Chemistry at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. Professor Barner-Kowollik has published over 175 peer-reviewed research papers, over 140 conference papers/abstracts, and seven book chapters, and he is the editor of the ‘Handbook of RAFT Polymerization’ (Wiley-VCH, 2008). He currently serves (or has served) on the editorial boards of Macromolecules, Polymer, Polymer Chemistry, Progress in Polymer Science, Macromolecular Theory and Simulations and Macromolecular Rapid Communications. His main research interests range from the synthesis of complex macromolecular architectures via living/controlled radical polymerization and their applications as well as material properties, the development of novel polymer conjugation and controlling protocols, polymer reaction kinetics and mechanism, to (quantitative) high-resolution mass spectrometry on polymer systems coupled with chromatographic techniques.