Prof. Dr. Filip Du Prez

Editor European Polymer Journal

 

Career/Employment:

• Visiting Professor in Centre of Advanced Macromolecular Design at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Feb-June 2008
• Ghent University ( Belgium ) Professor 1 October 1999 - present
  Head of Polymer Chemistry Research Group
• Ghent University ( Belgium ) postdoc/research associate February 1996 – September 1999
  University of Montpellier , France (Prof. Schué)
• Ghent University ( Belgium ) PhD-student October 1992 – February 1996
  Short stays in Lehigh University , USA (Prof. Sperling)

 

Education:

• PhD in Sciences, Chemistry February 1996 Ghent University , Faculty of Sciences
  (Major in Polymer Chemistry, Promotor: Prof. Dr. E. Goethals, Topic: “Interpenetrating Polymer Networks”, Funding: FWO).
• Master in Chemistry June 1992 Ghent University , Faculty of Sciences.

 

Research interests:

• main fields: polymer chemistry, design of functional polymer architectures and polymer materials, controlled radical polymerizations, ‘click' chemistry.
• topical fields: ATRP, RAFT, cationic polymerization, step growth polymerization in combination with ‘click' chemistry, polymeric nano- and microparticles, stimuli-responsive polymers, polymeric solid supports for catalysts, shape memory polymers, polymer membranes, advanced copolymer structures (graft, brush, palm-tree, star-block, …), segmented polymer networks, dispersants.

 

Honours, Awards:

• >10 awards for oral and poster contributions on national and international conferences in period 2000-2008.
• Laureate of DSM-award for Chemistry and Technology (1995)

 

Publications:

• Number of papers in refereed international journals > 85 (1995-2008)
• Guest Editor of the special issue of Polymer International: “Polymer Chemistry for the Design of New Materials”, 2003
• Number of communications to scientific meetings: about 230 (including communications of co-workers)
• Number of chapters in books: 7

 

Chairman or co-chairman of international symposia:

• Chairman international workshop “ Functional polymer materials based on tailor-made macromolecules: synthesis, advanced characterization and membrane applications”, 7-9 October 2007, Ghent.
• Co-organizer international symposium “Baekeland 2007: Thermosets – 100 years after Bakelite”, 23-26 September 2007, Ghent.
• Chairman annual meeting of the Belgian Polymer Group, 18-19 May 2006, Oostende
• Co-chairman international workshop organized by UGent/KULeuven: “Aqueous Polymer Solutions and Gels: from chemistry and physics to applications”, 20-23 December 2004, Leuven .
• Co-chairman binational symposium (Belgium/Netherlands) organized by BPG/KNCV: “Functional Polymer Materials”, 7-8 october 2004, Mol .
• Co-chairman Euroconference European Science Federation (ESF): “Complex Polymer Structures: synthesis, characterization and modelling”, 2003, Belgium .
• Chairman international symposium “Polymer Chemistry for the Design of New Materials”, 2002, Ghent , Belgium (in honour of Prof. Dr. E. Goethals) .
• Chairman of European CERC3 workshop “Water-soluble polymers and their hydrogels”, 2002, Belgium .
• Co-chairman 8 th Belgian-Japan Symposium on Polymer Science , 2000, Ghent , Belgium .

 

Member of editorial advisory board of international journals:

• European Polymer Journal (Editor)
• Polymer
• Designed Monomers and Polymers
• Journal of Macromolecular Science, Pure and Applied Science
• Reactive & Functional Polymers