Confirmed Speaker List IPCG 2023
Prof. Takuzo Aida
Tokyo University
Depart. of Chemistry & Biotechnology
Tokyo, Japan
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Aida_Lab/aida_laboratory/aida.html
Title: Conceptual Expansion of Supramolecular Polymerization
Prof. Jose M. Asua
University of Basque County
Polymat Institute
San Sebastian, Spain
Title: Overcoming the film formation dilemma
Prof. Sabine Beuermann
Clausthal University of Technology
Institute of Technical Chemistry
Clausthal-Zellerfeld Germany
Title: Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations – a valuable tool for modeling emulsion polymerization processes
Dr. Matthew Carter
The DOW Chemical Company
Collegeville, PA, USA
Title: Hybrid latex particles: new approaches for industrial applications
Prof. Todd Hoare
McMaster University, Department of Chemical Engineering
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Title: Nanogels and Nanogel Assemblies for Enhanced Drug Delivery
Ing. Daniel Horak
Czech Academy of Sciences
Inst. of Macromolecular Chemistry,
Prague, Czech Republic
Title: Surface engineering of upconversion colloid particles for sensing, targeting, multimodal bioimaging, and photodynamic therapy
Prof. Eugenia Kumacheva
University of Toronto
Department of Chemistry
Toronto, Canada
https://sites.chem.utoronto.ca/chemistry/staff/EK/about.html
Title: Nanocolloidal liquid crystals under confinement
Dr. Muriel Lansalot
University of Lyon a
CNRS – CP2M
Lyon, France
Title: Degradable vinylic polymer particles synthesized by aqueous (controlled) radical emulsion polymerization
Dr. Yang (Aaron) Liu
University of Toronto, Department of Chemistry
Toronto, Canada
Title: Controlling Surface Properties of Polymer Films: Insights from 2K Waterborne Polyurethane Coatings and Polymer-Colloid Mixtures
Prof. Yingwu Luo
Zhejiang University, Dept of Chemical & Biological Engineering
Hangzhou, China
Title: Raft emulsion polymerization: fundamentals and emerging new materials
Dr. Samane Mehravar
BASF SE
Dispersions & Resins
Ludwigshafen/Germany
Title: An insight into product carbon footprint of polymer colloids
Dr. Timo Melchin
Wacker Chemie AG
Innovation Polymers
Burghausen, Germany
Title: Towards biodegradable vinyl acetate polymer dispersions – limitations in radical ring-opening emulsion polymerization
Prof. Orlando Rojas
University of British Columbia
Department of Chemistry
Vancouver, Canada
Title: Approaching Circularity with the tools of Colloid Science
Dr. Jutta Rieger
Sorbonne Université, CNRS
Institute Parisien de Chemie Moléculaire
Paris, France
Title: Recent Developments in Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly
Prof. Takaya Terashima
Kyoto University,
Department of Polymer Chemistry
Kyoto, Japan
Title: Controlled Self-Assembly and Self-Sorting Systems of Amphiphilic Polymers: Discovery and New Stage by Random Copolymers
Prof. John Tsavalas,
University of New Hampshire,
College of Engineering & Physical Sci.
Durham, NH, USA
Title: Frustrating the system to achieve new hybrid particle morphologies
Title: Emulsion polymerization modeling – from industrial practice to aqueous-phase kinetics of hydrophobic monomers
Prof. Alex van Herk
Eindhoven University of Technology,
Department of Built Environment
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Title: Insertion of breakable bonds in polyacrylates through polymerization in aqueous media (with Dr. Thoniyot Praveen, ISCE2, Singapore)
Dr. Sarah Eckersley
Vice President of R&D, Dow
Midland, MI, USA
Title: Advancing the Sustainability Agenda: Innovation at Scale
Prof. Emeritus Mohamed El-Aasser
Lehigh University, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Bethlehem PA, USA
Title: Some Historical Aspects of Polymer Colloids
