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Professor David Haddleton, for Polymer Research, obtaining her PhD a Member of the Chinese Academy of Editor-in-Chief in 1998 for work in the area of fullerene Sciences. adducts and . A postdoctoral Professor Academician Yang was fellowship with CPIMA (NSF-Center for a faculty member of Fudan University Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular before he was appointed Vice President Assemblies) brought her to the IBM for Research in 1999. In 2006, he was Almaden Research Center, California appointed Director General of the USA, to work under the direction of Prof. Department of Degree and Postgraduate Craig J. Hawker focusing on the devel- Education, State Council of the People’s opment of new living free Republic of China. Professor Academi- techniques and approaches to nanoscopic cian Yang serves as senior advisor to the materials. In 2001 she joined XenoPort, Shanghai Municipal Government. He Inc. as a Staff investigating was inaugurated as President of Fudan enabling technologies for the increased University in January 2009. bioavailability of macromolecular thera- The academic interests of Professor peutics. After this extensive industrial Academician Yang are in condensed experience she started at Vanderbilt matter physics and polymer science. He David Haddleton is Professor of Chem- University as Assistant Professor in the owns many domestic and international istry at the University of Warwick, UK. Department of Chemistry in 2004 with patents and serves on the boards of Professor Haddleton’s research centres a secondary appointment in the Depart- several academic journals including on controlled polymerisation to give ment of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt Chinese Journal of Chemistry and Science of designed, desired and Medical School. In 2007 she was awarded in China. Professor Academician Yang targeted structure. Work is directed to the the NSF CAREER Award for young has been rewarded with many titles and synthesis of polymers one monomer at faculty and her research advances in awards from home and abroad, including a time in an attempt to approach the delivery technologies across challenging ‘‘Cheung Kong Scholar’’, ‘‘National degree of sophistication exhibited by biological barriers and towards highly Scientific and Technological Progress natural polymers. An overriding aspect of vascular tumors. Award’’ and ‘‘Qiushi Outstanding Scien- all the work is the desire to produce tist Award’’. Professor Academician polymers by commercially accessible Professor Yuliang Yang, Yang leads the National ‘‘973’’ Project processes for biosciences and materials Associate Editor and National ‘‘863’’ Project. applications.

Professor Eva Harth, Associate Professor Christopher Barner- Editor Kowollik, Editorial Board member

Born in Zhejiang, China, Professor Academician Yang Yuliang graduated from the Chemistry department of Fudan University in 1977 and received his PhD Eva Harth was born in Cologne, Ger- in 1984 from Fudan University. He did many and studied chemistry at the post doctoral work on macromolecular Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik University of Bonn and the University of science at the Max Planck Institute for studied chemistry at the Universities of Zurich, Switzerland. In 1994 she joined Polymer research from 1986 to 1988. Konstanz and Gottingen€ in Germany. He the group of Prof. K. Muellen at the MPI In 2003 Professor Yang was elected completed a PhD in Physical Chemistry at

14 | Polym. Chem., 2010, 1, 14–16 This journal is ª The Royal Society of Chemistry 2010 the University of Gottingen,€ before at University College, Oxford (U.K.), 2001, the 2003 Young Researchers’ Medal joining the University of New South with an aim to develop semiconducting from the Macro Group U.K. and an ICI Wales in Sydney, Australia, where he led . In 2007 he took up a presti- SRF Award in 2004. He holds a Durham a research group as Full Professor at the gious Federation Fellowship from the University Christopherson/Knott Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Australian Research Council, and is Fellowship for 2008–09. He has been Design until mid-2008. He is currently Director of the Centre for Organic a member of the EPSRC college since Full Professor and Chair of Preparative Photonics & Electronics at the University 2002, is currently an Honorary Reader in Macromolecular Chemistry at the Karls- of Queensland (Australia). the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the ruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), University of Newcastle and is Germany. Prof. Barner-Kowollik has Professor Neil Cameron, Editorial a Committee Member of the Royal published over 200 peer reviewed research Board member Society of Chemistry’s Biomaterials papers (H index 42), over 170 conference Special Interest Group. papers/abstracts, several patents and 8 book chapters and he is the editor of the ‘Handbook of RAFT Polymerization’ (Wiley-VCH, 2008). His main research Professor Stefan Hecht, Editorial interests range from the synthesis of Board member complex macromolecular architectures via living polymerization processes and their applications as well as material properties, the development of novel polymer conjugation and polymerization protocols, polymer reaction kinetics and mechanism for quantitative high resolu- tion mass spectrometry on polymer systems coupled with multi-detector chromatographic techniques. Prof. Neil Cameron undertook his degree (1987–1991) and PhD (1991–1994) at the Professor Paul L. Burn, Editorial University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Board member Following two post-doctoral periods, first in Eindhoven then at Heriot Watt University, he was appointed as Stefan Hecht (1974) carried out his a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the undergraduate studies in chemistry at Department of Chemistry at Durham Humboldt Universitat€ zu Berlin (Ger- University in October 1997. In 2005 he many) and obtained his PhD from the was promoted to Reader (Associate University of California, Berkeley (USA) Professor) and in October 2008 he took in 2001, working under the guidance of up the position of Professor of Bioactive Prof. Jean M. J. Frechet. After establish- Chemistry in the same department. His ing his own research group at Freie Uni- research is focused on the preparation versitat€ Berlin (2001–2004) he was of bioactive and/or bio-inspired macro- a group leader at the Max-Planck-Institut molecules, with particular emphasis on fur€ Kohlenforschung in Mulheim€ an der self-assembling polypeptides, peptide- Ruhr (2005–2006). Since 2006 he has held synthetic polymer hybrids, bioactive the Chair of Organic Chemistry and glycopolymers, and scaffolds for 3D in Functional Materials in the Department Professor Paul L. Burn received his PhD vitro cell culture and tissue engineering. of Chemistry at Humboldt-Universitat€ zu from the University of Sydney (Aus- His research to date has led to the publi- Berlin. His research interests range from tralia). In 1988 he moved to Cambridge cation of >90 articles, reviews and book synthetic macromolecular and supramo- University (U.K.) to carry out post- chapters and he has given >90 invited lecular to surface chemistry and are doctoral research in collaboration with lectures at conferences and colloquiua. focused on the design and synthesis of Professors Friend and Holmes, and in He has been invited to submit articles to (macro)molecular building blocks for the 1989 he became the Dow Research Fellow several international journals, including bottom-up construction of functional at Christ’s College, Cambridge. In 1992 Advanced Functional Materials, Journal of nanoscale structures and devices. More he moved to a lectureship at the Univer- Polymer Science, Part A and Polymer.He information can be found at: sity of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellowship was awarded a DTI SMART Award in www.hechtlab.de.

This journal is ª The Royal Society of Chemistry 2010 Polym. Chem., 2010, 1, 14–16 | 15 Professor Jan C. M. van Hest, material concepts. In 2000 he was ap- 1986, he joined Kagoshima University. Editorial Board member pointed as a full professor at the Radboud After a postdoc with David Tirrell at University Nijmegen to set up a new UMass (1988–1989), he moved to Nagoya group in bio-organic chemistry. His University in 1991 and was promoted to current research efforts are aimed at a full Professor in 1998. He was the developing bio-inspired materials and project leader of the ERATO Project processes in order to combine the func- (JST) on the ‘‘Super-structured Helix’’ tionality of biological systems with the (2002–2007). His current research inter- flexibility and robustness of synthetic ests are in the design and synthesis of structures, using a variety of synthetic helical molecules, supramolecules, and techniques, such as protein engineering, polymers with novel structures and peptide synthesis and controlled poly- functions. He received the SPSJ Wiley merization methods. is Polymer Science Award in 2000, the Japan member of The Young Academy of the IBM Science Award in 2001, Molecular Royal Academy of Arts and Chirality Award in 2005, Thomson Sciences and has published over 100 Scientific Research Front Award in 2007, papers. and the Award of The Society of Polymer Jan C. M. van Hest conducted his Science, Japan in 2008. doctoral research on molecular architec- tures based on dendrimers at the Eind- Professor Eiji Yashima, Editorial hoven University of Technology under Board member supervision of Prof. , for which the PhD title was granted in 1996. For this research he was awarded the first prize of the DSM science and technology award (1996) and the SNS bank award of best PhD in the category Technical Fundamental Research of the academic year 1995–1996 of Eindhoven University of Technology. As a postdoctoral researcher he inves- tigated the possibilities of protein engi- neering for the preparation of materials under supervision of Prof. D. A. Tirrell, at the University of Massachusetts in Am- herst. In 1997 he then joined the chemical company DSM, where he worked as Eiji Yashima received his BS, MS, and research scientist and later on as group PhD (1988) from Osaka University under leader on the development of innovative the supervision of Yoshio Okamoto. In

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