Curriculum Vitae Oren A. Scherman Office Address Home Address Department of Chemistry 56 Coleridge Road University of Cambridge Cambridge Lensfield Road CB1 3PJ, UK Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK Phone: +44 (0)1223 327291 Phone: +44 (0)1223 331508 Fax: +44 (0)1223 334866 e-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/staff/oas.html Education PhD, Chemistry February 2004 California Institute of Technology Thesis Title: Enhancing Materials through Controlled Architectures with Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization BA, Chemistry, summa cum laude May 1999 Cornell University Honors Thesis: Controlling Polymer Architecture Through Functional Functionalized Initiators for Living Polymerization Current Position University of Cambridge 2006–present Cambridge, United Kingdom Director of the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis (2011–) University Reader in Supramolecular and Polymer Chemistry (2012–) Next Generation Fellow Tsinghua University October 2013–present Beijing, China Tsinghua Xuetang Visiting Professor in Chemistry Previous Positions Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) 2004–2006 Eindhoven, The Netherlands NSF MPS-DRF International Postdoctoral Fellow Research Advisor: Professor E.W. (Bert) Meijer California Institute of Technology 1999–2004 Pasadena, CA Graduate Student Research Advisor: Professor Robert H. Grubbs Cornell University 1995–1999 Ithaca, NY Undergraduate Student Research Advisor: Professor Dotsevi Y. Sogah Bayer AG 1997 Leverkusen, Germany Research Chemist Honors and Awards Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize in Supramolecular Chemistry 2014 RSC Hickinbottom Award 2013 SCI McBain Medal 2013 ERC Proof of Concept Grant 2011 RSC Macro Group UK Young Researchers Medal 2010 ERC Starting Investigator Grant 2009 RSC Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize 2009 Walters-Kundert Next Generation Fellowship 2006–present NSF MPS-DRF International Postdoctoral Fellowship 2004–2006 NSF Graduate Fellowship 1999–2002 Leo and Berdie Mandelkern Prize in Chemistry (Cornell University) 1999 National Science Scholar 1995 Phi Delta Kappa International Fellow 1995 Professional Memberships and Advisory Boards Scientific Advisory Board SABIC IP Scientific Advisory Board Aqdot Advisory Board Chemical Communications 2012–present Scherman 2 Advisory Board International Conference on Cucurbituril Chemistry (ICCB) 2009–present Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) American Chemical Society (ACS) Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Division (ACS) Polymer Division (ACS) Representative Publications (see full publication list) “Photocontrol over Cucurbit[8]uril Complexes: Stoichiometry and Supramolecular Polymers,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 11760–11763 (del Barrio, J.; Horton, P.N.; Lairez, D.; Lloyd, G.O.; Toprakcioglu, C.; Scherman, O.A.) “Cucurbit[8]uril and Blue-Box: High-Energy Water Release Overwhelms Electrostatic Interactions,” J. Am. Chem. Soc, 2013, 135, 14879–14888 (Biedermann, F.; Vendruscolo, M.; Scherman, O.A.; De Simone, A.; Nau, W.M.) “Chemistry Inside Molecular Containers in the Gas Phase,” Nat. Chem., 2013, 5, 376–382 (Lee, T.-C.; Kalenius, E.; Lazar, A.I.; Assaf, K.I.; Kuhnert, N.; Gr¨un, C.H.; J¨anis, J.; Scherman, O.A.; Nau, W.M.) “Supramolecular Alignment of Gold Nanorods via Cucurbit[8]uril Ternary Complex Formation,” Nanoscale, 2013, 5, 5299–5302 (Jones, S.T.; Zayed, J.M.; Scherman, O.A.) “One-Step Fabrication of Supramolecular Microcapsules from Microfluidic Droplets,” Science, 2012, 335, 690–694 (Zhang, J.; Coulston, R.J.; Jones, S.T.; Geng, J.; Scherman, O.A.*; Abell, C.*) “Orthogonal Switching of a Single Supramolecular Complex,” Nat. Commun., 2012, 3, 1207, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2198 (Tian, F.; Jiao, D.; Biedermann, F.; Scherman, O.A.) “Quantitative SERS using the Sequestration of Small Molecules Inside Precise Plasmonic Nano-constructs,” Nano Lett., 2012, 12, 5924–5928 (Kasera, S.; Biedermann, F.; Baumberg, J.J.; Scherman, O.A.*; Mahajan, S.*) “Formation of Single-Chain Polymer Nanoparticles in Water through Host-Guest Interactions,” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, 51, 4185–4189 (Appel, E.A.; Dyson, J.; del Barrio, J.; Walsh, Z.; Scherman, O.A.) “Strongly Fluorescent, Switchable Perylene-bisdiimide (PDI) Host-Guest Complexes with Cucurbit[8]uril in Water,” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, 51, 7739–7743 (Biedermann, F.; Elmalem, E.; Ghosh, I.; Nau, W.N.; Scherman, O.A.) “Ultrahigh-water-content Supramolecular Hydrogels Exhibiting Multistimuli Responsiveness,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 11767–11773 (Appel, E.A.; Loh, X.J.; Jones, S.T.; Biedermann, F.; Dreiss, C.A.; Scherman, O.A.) “Sustained Release of Proteins from High-water-content Supramolecular Polymer Hydrogels,” Biomaterials, 2012, 33, 4646–4652 (Appel, E.A.; Loh, X.J.; Jones, S.T.; Dreiss, C.A.; Scherman, O.A.) “Supramolecular Crosslinked Networks via Host-guest Complexation with Cucurbit[8]uril,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132, 14251–14260 (Appel, E.A.; Rauwald, U.; Jones, S.; Zayed, J.M.; Scherman, O.A.) “Supramolecular block copolymers with cucurbit[8]uril in water,” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2008, 47, 3950–3953 (Rauwald, U.; Scherman, O.A.) Books and Book Chapters Loh, X.J.; Scherman, O.A. editors of “Polymeric and Self Assembled Hydrogels: From Fundamental Understanding to Applications,” a volume in the Monographs in Supramolecular Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry: Cam- bridge. Vol. 11. 2013, DOI:10.1039/9781849735629. Appel, E.A.; Scherman, O.A. “Dynamic Supramolecular Polymers,” Chapter 6.16 in Comprehensive Polymer Science, Volume 6: Macromolecular Architectures and Soft Nano-objects; Mueller, A.; Wooley, K., Vol. 6 Eds.; Elsevier-Ltd, 2012, 587–628. Ligthart, G.B.W.L.; Scherman, O.A.; Sijbesma, R.P.; Meijer, E.W. “Supramolecular Polymer Engineering,” In Macromolecular Engineering: From Precise Macromolecular Synthesis to Macroscopic Materials Properties and Ap- plications; Matyjaszewski, K.; Gnanou, Y.; Leibler, L., Eds.; Wiley-VCH: Weinheim, 2007. Patents & Patent Applications Zhang, J.; Coulston, R.; Parker, R.; Yu, Z.; Abell, C.; Scherman, O.A. Nested microcapsules January 30, 2013. Scherman, O.A.; Appel, E.A.; Loh, X.J. Cucurbituril-based hydrogels WO2013/124654, August 29, 2013. Zhang, J.; Coulston, R.; Abell, C.; Scherman, O.A. Microdroplet-assisted preparation of supramolecular microcapsules PCT/GB2012/051787. Scherman, O.A.; Baumberg, J.J.; Mahajan, S.; Coulston, R.; Taylor, R.; Kasera, S.; Lee, T.C. Plasmonic junctions for surface-enhanced spectroscopy PCT/GB2011/000956. Scherman, O.A.; Appel, E.A.; Hughes, T.L. Viscous wellbore fluids US61/378180. Jiao, D.; Zhao; N.; Scherman, O.A. Methods for the purification of cucurbituril PCT/GB2010/002330. Rauwald, U.; Scherman, O.A. Supramolecular handcuffs in polymeric architectures US Patent # 8,378,059 B2, February 19, 2013. Scherman, O.A.; Kim, H.M.; Grubbs, R.H. Ring-opening metathesis polymerization of bridged bicyclic and polycyclic olefins containing two or more heteroatoms U.S. Patent # 6,884,859, April 26, 2005.