From Fundamentals to Applications: Living Polymer Science at the 29th Australasian Polymer Symposium

Professor and ARC Australian Professorial Fellow Christopher Barner-Kowollik – currently leading a large research group at the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD) at the University of New SouthWales – 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 CAMD/UNSW. He has published over 130 peer reviewed papers, over 120 conference papers 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 2007) and has received several awards for his work, including the Rennie Medal of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and the Edgeworth David Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales. Professor Barner-Kowollik was the Chair of the RACI Polymer Division as well as the Chair of the 29th Australasian Polymer Symposium.