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Harry Allcock

Department of Chemistry,The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802 Phone; (814)865-3527
Fax: (814)865-3313
Email: hra@chem.psu.edu

Harry Allcock has devoted most of his career to the field of inorganic polymers. He was responsible for the design and synthesis of the first stable polyphosphazenes, and he and his coworkers at The Pennsylvania State University have played a major role in the development of this field. His research focuses on fundamental synthetic chemistry and an understanding of structure-property relationships, together with explorations of possible applications for the new polymers in biomedicine, aerospace, energy-storage and generation, and communications technology. He is the recipient of three American Chemical Society National Awards, is a Guggenheim Fellow, and has lectured widely on polyphosphazenes and other inorganic polymer systems. His position as an Evan Pugh Professor of Chemistry at Penn State is the highest academic honor bestowed by the University.

Christopher W. Allen

Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405
Phone: (802)656-0913
Fax: (802) 656-8705
Email: christopher.allen@uvm.edu

Dr. Allen came to Vermont in 1967 after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, where he studied with Therald Moeller. His research program has involved the study of inorganic rings and polymers. The inorganic ring chemistry presents interesting questions of electronic structure, reactivity and mechanism. Additionally, these ring systems may be transformed into hybrid inorganic-organic polymers which are new classes of materials with interesting properties having applications such as being flame retardant, polymeric electron transfer agents or as membranes. He has been a Senior Visitor at Oxford and Edinburgh and a consultant to several corporations. He was named University Scholar for 1982-83, received the George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award in 1986, was named a Mass High TECH "Allstar" in 2000, and received the Dean's Lecture Award from the College of Arts and Sciences in 2004 and the Luther F. Hackett award from the Vermont Technology Council for contributions to economic development in Vermont in 2005. He was elected to the Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering in 2005. He served as the Director of the Vermont Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) from 1995-2005 . In addition to being an Research Active Emeritus Professor, he serves as the Senior Scientific Advisor to the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies

Didier Astruc

Laboratoire de Chimie Organique et Organométallique, UMR 5802, Université Bordeaux I , 351,
Cours de la Libération, 33405 Talence Cedex, FRANCE
Phone: (33) 05.40.00.62.71
Fax: (33) 05.40.00.66.46
Email: d.astruc@lcoo.u-bordeaux1.fr

Didier Astruc is Professor of Chemistry at the University Bordeaux I and has been a Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France since 1995. He studied in Rennes, then did his post-doc at MIT with R. R. Schrock and later spent a one-year sabbatical leave at the University of Calkifornia at Berkeley with K. P. C. Vollhardt. He is the author inter alia of Electron Transfer and Radical Processes in Transition-Metal Chemistry (VCH, 1995, prefaced by Henry Taube) and Chimie Organométallique (EDP Science, 2000, Spanish version in 2003). His research interests are in organometallic chemistry at the interface with nanosciences.

Charles E. Carraher Jr

Department of Chemistry, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 33431
Phone: (561) 297-2107
Fax: (561) 297-2759
Email: carraher@fau.edu

Charles Carraher is Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida Atlantic University, Associate Director of the Florida Center for Environmental Studies, and Director of the Environmental Chemistry Secretariat. He previously was Dean of the College of Science at FAU, Chair of the Science Division at the University of South Dakota, and Chair of the Department of Chemistry at Wright State University. He received his BS at Sterling College in 1963 and PhD in 1967 from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He has been given many awards and recognitions including being named a Fellow in the American Institute of Chemists, receiving the Outstanding Scientists and Engineering Award from the Engineers and Scientist Affiliate Societies Council in 1984, being named as the outstanding Chemist in southeast USA by the American Chemical Society in 1992 and given a Distinguished Service Award for his work in science education in 1994 and the Saltarilli Sigma Xi Award for research in 1992. He has worked as a science adviser for Sen. McGovern, served as a reader for the National Science 2000 committee and served on the Governor's task-force committee for the Sustainability of South Florida. He is a member of the national Committee on Professional Training. He is active in projects aimed at securing greater diversity in the fields of science as well as science education. In 2000 he was awarded the title of Fellow by the American Chemical Society PMSE. In 2002 he was given the Distinguished Service Award by the ACS (PMSE) and the Distinguished Researcher Award by Allied Technology. Research areas include high strength materials, geo-membranes, use of coupled mass spectroscopy in the identification of materials, biomedical and bioactive materials (for the treatment of yeast infections, cancers, anti-viral agents, juvenile diabetes, etc.), heavy metal contamination of natural waters, conductive and semiconductive polymers, solid waste management, renewable resources, high energy radiation (laser) containment and enhancement, plant growth hormones, thermally stable materials, and high temperature superconductors. He is holder of a number of basic patents including the initial chemical synthesis of nucleic acids.

Julian Chojnowski

Polish Academy of Sciences, Sienkiewicza 112,90-363 Lodz, POLAND
Phone: (4842) 6803-227
Fax: (4842) 6803-261
Email: jchojnow@bilbo.cbmm.lodz.pl

Julian Chojnowski was graduated from the Department of Chemistry Of the Technical University of Lodz (TUL) and received his PhD from this Department in 1963 working with S.Chrzczonowicz on polycondensation processes. He passed 1.5 years in the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee working with W.W.Brandt in the area of hydrogen bonds. He received Dr.Sc. degree from TUL and he was nominated to the position The Head of the Laboratory and the Research Group Leader in the Center of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Lodz in 1972. He received the position of professor in this Institute and he is titular professor from 1983. He was invited professor to universities: USTL Montpellier, France; IUPUI Indianapolis, USA; Paris XIII, France. The main area of his interest is silicon based polymers and materials. He is coeditor of two books and over 160 scientific papers.

Mario Gleria

Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari, Consiglio Nazionale delle ricerche c/o Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche Universitè di Padova Via F.Marzolo 1 35131 Padova Italy
Phone: 0039-049-8275192
Fax: 0039-049-8275227
Email: gleria@chin.unipd.it

Dr. Mario Gleria is “Researcher” at the I.S.T.M. Institute of Sciences and Molecular Technologies of the National Research Council (C.N.R.) of Italy, and Adjunct Professor of Materials Science at the Padova University, from which he received his degree in Chemistry. He started his scientific career at the C.N.R. Institute of Photochemistry and High Energy Radiations (F.R.A.E.) in Bologna in 1970, working on the photochemistry of transition metal complexes and solar energy conversion problems. He continued investigations in Legnaro (Padova) from 1978 carrying out research on inorganic cycles and polymers, i.e. cyclophosphazenes and poly(organophosphazenes), with particular attention to their synthesis, characterization, functionalization, photochemistry, and photophysics. In 2000 he moved to the I.S.T.M. Institute of the C.N.R. in Padova, using phosphazenes as starting materials for the formation of blends, hybrids by sol-gel technique, and suitable substrates for surface functionalization reactions. He is member of the Italian Association of Macromolecules (AIM).

Pierre D. Harvey

Departement de Chemie, Universite de Sherbrooke, CANADA J1K 2R1
Phone: (819) 821-7092
Fax: (819) 821-8017
Email: Pierre.Harvey@USherbrooke.ca

Pierre D. Harvey received his B.Sc. degree in chemistry in 1981 from the Université de Montréal, and his M.Sc. in 1983 in the photophysics of aromatic molecules from this same university. He moved to McGill University for his Ph.D. to work in the area of solid state NMR and micro-Raman spectroscopy with Professor Ian S. Butler, which he obtained in 1985. He passed two years at Caltech with Professor Harry B. Gray as a NSERC postdoctoral fellow to work on the photochemistry of inorganic compounds from 1986 to 1988. He completed a second postdoctoral stay at MIT with Professor Mark S. Wrighton working on microelectrodes. He current research interest includes coordination and organometallic polymers and their conducting and photonic properties.

Frieder Jäkle

Olson Hall, 336, Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, 73 Warren Street, Newark, NJ 07102
Phone: (973) 353-5064
Fax: (973) 353-1264
Email: fjaekle@rutgers.edu
Web: http://chemistry.rutgers.edu/fjaekle

Frieder Jäkle completed his Diploma in 1994 at the Technische Universität München and received his Ph.D. summa cum laude from TU München in 1997 for research in the field of organometallic chemistry with Professor Matthias Wagner. As a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) postdoctoral fellow he then carried out work in the area of ferrocene-containing polymers at the University of Toronto with Professor Ian Manners. In 2000 he joined the Chemistry Department at Rutgers University, where his research has been focused on the development of new multifunctional and polymeric Lewis acids for applications in catalysis and materials chemistry. He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2004 and an Alfred P. Sloan fellowship in 2006.

Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz

Department of Chemistry, University of Saskatchewan, 110 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA S7N 5C9
Phone: (306) 966-4660
Fax: (306) 966-4730
Email: kraatz@skyway.usask.ca
Web: http://www.usask.ca/chemistry/faculty_kraatz.html

Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz is an associate professor of chemistry at The University of Saskatchewan. His research interests include the synthesis of novel bioconjugates, surface chemistry and biomaterial science. His research group is working on gaining an understanding of the electronic properties of biological molecules and the development of electrochemical sensors for biomolecules, such as DNA and proteins. In addition, research efforts are directed towards the study of polymeric electroactive materials derived from biomolecules. After studying at the Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf and the University of Kent at Canterbury, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Calgary and carried out postdoctoral work in organometallic chemistry at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the Weizmann Institute of Science. He worked as an assistant Research Officer at the Steacie Institute of Science, Ottawa and in 1998, he joined the Department of Chemistry at The University of Saskatchewan. He received a PetroCanada Young Innovator Award in 2001 and is the Canada Research Chair in Biomaterials since January 2002.

Ian Manners

Department of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1TS
Phone: (0117) 928 7650
Email: Ian.Manners@bristol.ac.uk

Ian Manners is a Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry at University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Professor Manners was a Canada Research Chair in Inorganic, Polymer and Materials Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada until 2005. Manners’ research interests focus on both the fundamental and applied aspects of the chemistry of rings, chains, and macromolecules based on main group or transition elements. He has received a range of awards, including an E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship, a Corday-Morgan Medal from the United Kingdom, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship from the United States. Macromolecular Science and Engineering Award, Canadian Institute of Chemistry and Alcan Lecture Award, Canadian Society of Chemistry. Professor Manner was named a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada in 1997 and was elected as Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada in 2001.

James E. Mark

Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221
Phone: 513-556-9292
FAX: 513-556-9239
Email: markje@email.uc.edu
Web: http://jemcom.crs.uc.edu

James E. Mark received his B.S. degree in 1957 in Chemistry from Wilkes College and his Ph.D. degree in 1962 in Physical Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. After serving as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University under Professor Paul J. Flory, he was Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn before moving to the University of Michigan, where he became a Full Professor in 1972. In 1977, he assumed the position of Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cincinnati, and served as Chairman of the Physical Chemistry Division and Director of the Polymer Research Center. In 1987, he was named the first Distinguished Research Professor, a position he holds at the present time. Dr. Mark's research interests pertain to the physical chemistry of polymers, including the elasticity of polymer networks, hybrid organic-inorganic composites, liquid-crystalline polymers, and a variety of computer simulations. He is the founding editor of the journal Computational and Theoretical Polymer Science, which was started in 1990, is an editor for the journal Polymer, and serves on a number of journal Editorial Boards. He is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His awards include the Dean's Award for Distinguished Scholarship, the Rieveschl Research Award, and the Jaffe Chemistry Faculty Excellence Award (all from the University of Cincinnati), the Whitby Award and the Charles Goodyear Medal (Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society), the ACS Applied Polymer Science Award, the Flory Polymer Education Award (ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry), election to the Inaugural Group of Fellows (ACS Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering), the Turner Alfrey Visiting Professorship, the Edward W. Morley Award from the ACS Cleveland Section, the ACS Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry, the Reed Lectureship at Rensselaer, and an Award for Outstanding Achievement in Polymer Science and Technology from the Society of Polymer Science, Japan.

Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

Department of Chemistry, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412-268-3209
FAX: 402-268-6897
Email: km3b@andrew.cmu.edu

Professor Kris Matyjaszewski obtained his Ph.D. from the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1976. In 1985, he moved to Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA where he is currently University Professor and J.C. Warner Professor of Natural Sciences, a position held previously by late Prof John Pople, 1998 Nobel Laureate. He has received several awards including: American Chemical Society: 2004 ACS Award for Cooperative Research in Polymer Science; 2002 ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry and 1995 ACS Creative Polymer Chemistry Award. He is also the winner of the 2005 Annual UK Macro-Group Medal and the 2004 Prize of the Foundation of Polish Science (aka Polish Nobel Prize). In 1999 he received the Humboldt Award for Senior US Scientists from Germany and in 1998 the Elf Chair of French Academy of Sciences. He received an honorary degree from the University of Ghent, Belgium in 2002 and from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2006. In 2005 he was elected as a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has been a visiting professor to the University of Paris, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Ulm, Bayreuth, Freiburg, Pisa and MMI. He is best known for the discovery of atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) which is currently being commercialized in the US, Europe and Japan.

Hiroshi Nishihara

Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
Phone: 81 (3) 5841-4346
Fax: 81 (3) 5841-8063
Email: nisihara@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Hiroshi Nishihara received his B. Sc. degree in 1977, M. Sc. in 1979 and D. Sc. in 1982 from The University of Tokyo. He was appointed research associate of Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology at Keio University in 1982, and he was promoted lecturer in 1990, and associate professor in 1992. Since 1996, he has been a professor of Department of Chemistry, School of Science at The University of Tokyo. He also worked as a visiting research associate in the Prof. Royce W. Murray's group of Department of Chemistry at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1987-1989), and as a researcher of PRESTO, JRDC (1992-1996). His research has been focused on creation of new electro- and photo-functional materials comprising both transition metals and n-conjugated chains, and invention of unidirectional electron transfer systems utilizing molecular layer interfaces.

Eberhard Neuse

School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, WITS 2050, South Africa
Email: neuse@aurum.wits.ac.za

Eberhard Neuse received his primary and secondary education in Berlin, Germany, passing his matric examinations in 1943 with distinction. He pursued his tertiary education at the Technical University Hanover, finishing with a Ph.D. degree in chemistry. Employment in the German chemical industry as a development and marketing chemist guided him into the world of polymeric materials. Dr. Neuse moved to Johannesburg, South Africa, where he joined the teaching staff of the Chemistry Department, University of the Witwatersrand with the special mission to build up a teaching and research capability in macromolecular science. For the past two decades, Dr. Neuse's group has been engaged in multidisciplinary research utilizing macromolecular chemistry in the development of polymeric prodrugs, specifically, anticancer agents. Both metal-organic and organometallic structural elements play an important part in this research field

Charles U. Pittman, Jr.

Department of Chemistry, Mississippi State University, MS 39762, USA
Email: cpittman@ra.msstate.edu

Charles U. Pittman, Jr. is the Professor of Industrial Chemistry and Catalysis and the Director of the University/Industry Chemical Research Center at Mississippi State University. His interests include, polymer synthesis, composite and nanocomposite materials, organometallic polymers, supported homogeneous catalysts, environmental applications of remediation chemistries, theoretical calculations inorganic and inorganic systems, cyclic ketene acetals, reactive intermediates, polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes, heterogeneous catalysis, carbon fiber surface chemistry, dehalogenation chemistry, e-beam and photoresists, heterocyclic chemistry, wood preservation, use and evaluation of biomass-derived adsorbants and conversion of biomass to chemicals and fuels. He received a PhD from Penn State University and did postdoctoral work at Dow Chemical and Case Western Reserve University with George Olah. He previously was awarded one of four existing University Research Professor designations at the University of Alabama in 1977. He was awarded the Ralph Powe Research Excellence Award in 1998.

Dwight Sweigart

Department of Chemistry, Brown University, 324 Brook St., Providence, RI 02912
Phone: (401) 863-2767
Email: Dwight_Sweigart@brown.edu

Dwight A. Sweigart received a B. A. from Franklin & Marshall College and a Ph. D. from Northwestern University. He was an AFOSR-NRC, NATO, and Ramsay Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford University and the University of Wales. He joined the faculty of the Chemistry Department of Brown University in 1980, with research interests that currently are focused in organometallic chemistry and include electrochemistry, catalysis, bond activations, and supramolecular coordination chemistry. Prof. Sweigart has been an associate editor of Organometallics since 1997.

Ben Zhong Tang

Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Phone: +852-2358-7375
Fax +852-2358-1594
Email: tangbenz@ust.hk Web: http://home.ust.hk/~tangbenz/

Ben Zhong Tang is a professor of chemistry at The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology and Cao Guangbiao Chair Professor at Zhejiang University. His research interests include polymer chemistry and materials science, and his research group is working on the development of new polymeric materials with novel linear and hyperbranched conjugated molecular structures and unique electronic, optical, magnetic, mesomorphic, organizational, and biological properties.

Ben received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University and did his postdoctoral work at the University of Toronto. He worked as a visiting scientist in the Osaka Laboratory of Sumitomo Chemical Co. and as a senior scientist in the Central Laboratory of Neos Corp. He joined the Department of Chemistry at The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology in July 1994. He received a Distinguished Young Scholar Award (Overseas, Hong Kong and Macau) from the National Science Foundation of China in 2002.

David Tyler

1253 Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403
Phone: (541) 346-4649
Fax: (541) 346-0487
Email: dtyler@uregon.edu
Web: http://www.uoregon.edu/~chem/tyler.html

David R. Tyler received Bachelor of Science degrees in chemistry and mathematics with Highest Distinction from Purdue University in 1975. While an undergraduate at Purdue, he did research with Professor R. A. Walton on the reactivity of the Re2X82- anions and on the X-ray photoelectron spectra of transition metal chloro complexes. He received his Ph.D. degree in June 1979 from the California Institute of Technology, where he worked with Professor Harry B. Gray on the photochemistry and electronic structures of metal carbonyl cluster complexes. In July 1979, he was appointed assistant professor at Columbia University. In July 1985, he moved to the University of Oregon where he is a professor. His current research interests are in photochemically degradable polymers, homogeneous catalysis in aqueous solution, and in mechanistic studies of the solvent cage effect.

Christoph Weder

Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7202, USA
Phone: ++1 (216) 368-6374
Fax: ++1 (216) 368-4202
Email: christoph.weder@case.edu
Web: http://macromolecules.case.edu

Christoph Weder is Associate Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Chris was educated at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, where he earned his M.Sc. degree in chemistry (Dipl. Chem.) in 1990. He then joined Professor Ulrich W. Suter's group at ETH to work on nonlinear optical polymers and received his Ph.D. in polymer science (Dr. sc. nat.) in 1994. He subsequently spent a year as a Swiss-NSF postdoctoral fellow in Professor Mark Wrighton's group at MIT to work on conjugated polymers, before returning to ETH Zürich in 1995, where the Materials Department appointed him first as head-assistant and lecturer and 1999, after completion of his ‘Habilitation’, as independent lecturer. In 2001 Chris moved Case, where he established the Functional Polymer Laboratory. His primary research interests are the design, synthesis and investigation of structure-property relationship of novel functional polymer systems, in particular advanced materials with unusual optic or electronic properties.

Michael O. Wolf

Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC , CANADA V6T 1Z1
Phone: (604) 822-1702
Fax: (604) 822-2847
Email: mwolf@chem.ubc.ca

Michael Wolf received his B.Sc. from Dalhousie University in 1989 and his Ph.D from M.I.T. in 1994 working under the supervision of Mark Wrighton. Starting in 1994, he spent a year and a half as a NSERC postdoctoral fellow working with Marye Anne Fox at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1995, he took up an appointment at the University of British Columbia where he is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Spectroscopy and Imaging (LASIR). His research interests are focused in the area of inorganic materials chemistry and molecular electronics. Wolf has made significant contributions to the synthesis of new metal-containing conjugated materials and the development of molecular sensors based on coordination complexes. In 2003, his contributions to research were recognized with a UBC Killam Research Prize and he won the Canadian Society for Chemistry Pure or Applied Award in Inorganic Chemistry in 2004.

Wai-Yeung Wong (Raymond)

Department of Chemistry and Centre for Advanced Luminescence Materials, Hong Kong
Baptist University, Waterloo Road, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
Phone: (852) 3411-7074
Fax: (852) 3411-7348
Email: rwywong@hkbu.edu.hk

Wai-Yeung Wong was born in Hong Kong. He obtained a B.Sc.(Hons.) degree in 1992 from the University of Hong Kong, and went on to complete his Ph.D. there in 1995 under the supervision of Prof. Wing-Tak Wong working on the chemistry of transition metal alkylidyne carbonyl clusters. He then spent one year in 1996 as a postdoctoral research associate with Prof. F. Albert Cotton at the Texas A & M University to work on the chemistry of inorganic compounds with metal-metal multiple bonds. In 1997, he worked with Profs. The Lord Jack Lewis and Paul R. Raithby at the University of Cambridge as a Croucher Research Fellow in the area of organometallic σ-acetylide polymers and materials. He joined the Hong Kong Baptist University as a faculty member in August 1998 where he is currently an Associate Professor of Chemistry. His current research interests include functional metallopolymers with metal-carbon σ-bonds in the main chain, luminescent materials for optoelectronics and photonics, metal alkynyl and carbon-rich organometallic compounds, transition metal carbonyl clusters and solid-state structural chemistry by X-ray crystallography.

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