Current Applied Polymer Science

M. G. Buonomenna, born in 1975, obtained her degree in Chemistry from the University of Salerno (Italy) in 1998. She holds a Master in Membrane Materials and Operations from Institute on Membrane and Technology (ITM) (former IRMERC)-National Research Council (CNR) and a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Chemical Engineering and Materials from the University of Calabria. In 2014 she obtained the qualification of Associate Professor in Chemical Fundamentals of Technologies from the Italian Ministry for Instruction, University and Research (MIUR). She has been an invited speaker in numerous international conferences and referee for international Research Agencies as well as journals including Energy & Environmental Science, Chemical Communications, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. M. G. Buonomenna is author of more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, 100 publications in congress proceedings, 9 chapters of scientific books and editor of 1 book on advanced membrane materials.

Dr. Aurica P. Chiriac obtained a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Chemistry from the “Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry Iasi. Currently Dr. Chiriac is Senior Researcher at the “Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry. She has published more than 150 scientific publications and is a named inventor of 45 issued patents. She is Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of some publications, and also is member of some Association of Scientists, of the Romanian Polymer Society, and of the Romanian Chemical Society.

"Dr. Gomes obtained a doctorate (D.Sc.) in Science and Technology of Polymers from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil in 2006. Currently Dr. Gomes is an Associated Professor in the UFRJ. He has published more than 90 scientific publications and is the inventor of 5 Brazilian patents. He received the award “Young Scientist of Rio de Janeiro State” twice (FAPERJ 2011 and 2014) and he is member of Post Graduate Program in Science and Technology of Polymers of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro since 2008"

Prof. Kamal K. Kar, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science is Umang Gupta Chair Professor from July 2014 to till date. He pursued higher studies from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, and Iowa State University, USA before joining as a Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials science at IIT Kanpur in 2001. He was a BOYSCAST Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA in 2003 (May-December). Prof. Kar has published more than 160 papers in international referred journals, 110 conference papers, 06 books on nanomaterials and their nanocomposites, 30 review articles/book chapters and more than 55 national and international patents. http://home.iitk.ac.in/%7Ekamalkk/index.htm.

Dr. Sahiner obtained his PhD in 2005 from Tulane University, New Orleans, LA and did postdoctoral studies at University of Delaware at Materials Science and Engineering, and at Tulane University School of Medicine, Biochemistry. Dr. Sahiner is the director of Nanoscience and Technology Research and Application Center. He has published more than 170 papers in and inventor of several issued patents. Dr Sahiner has been serving as an editorial board member for few journals.

Dr. Sopyan obtained a Doctor of Engineering degree in Applied Chemistry from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1996. He joined Faculty of Engineering, International Islamic University Malaysia in 2004 and he is currently a professor of materials engineering in the university. His current research activity involves the development of calcium phosphate ceramics for bone substitutes, polymer composites, biopolymers, and functional ceramics for structural, environmental, and energy applications. Dr. Sopyan has published more than 150 scientific publications in refereed journals. He is a member of the Editorial Board of this journal (Current Applied Polymer Science).

Dr. Haijun Yu earned his Ph.D. from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences . After postdoc training at Ludwig-Maximillians University, UTSouthwestern Medical Centre at Dallas and Tohoku University (Japan), he was appointed as an Associate Professor at Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, CAS since 2012. Thereafter he was promoted to a Professor in Pharmaceutics. He is engaged in the research of polymer-based stimuli-responsive drug delivery systems and cancer theranostics. He has authored > 80 SCIindexed publications with total citation > 2000. Dr. Yu is also the receiptor of China National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholarship.

Dr. Bianco obtained a B.S. and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. He is a Principal Researcher of the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) and of the Center of Excellence in Products and Processes (CEPROCOR). Dr. Bianco is also a Full Professor of Biophysical Chemistry and Biotechnology at the National University of La Rioja, Argentina. He has published more than 50 scientific papers and is a co-inventor of 7 Argentinean patents and 3 issued PCT patents. Dr. Bianco is one of the founders and currently the Executive Director of CEPROFARM (public pharmaceutical company of CEPROCOR).

Zehra Durmus works as an Assistant Professor in Faculty of Pharmacy in Bezmialem Vakıf University. She received her undergraduate degree in Department of Chemical Engineering at Istanbul University, Turkey, in 1999. After earning her M.S. degree in 2009, she completed her Ph.D. degree in 2013 in chemistry. Dr. Durmus is the corresponding and coauthor of several scholarly articles published in the fields of magnetic nanoparticles, carbon nanomaterials (graphene and derivatives), ferrites, and magnetism.

Dr. Parisi obtained a Master’s Degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology at University of Calabria in 2007, followed by a Ph.D. in “Environment, Health and Eco-friendly Processes”, with a Ph.D. thesis entitled “Polymeric Materials for Biomedical Applications: Synthesis and Characterization”, from the same university in 2011. During her Ph.D., she was also a Visiting Researcher at the “Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde” (Glasgow, United Kingdom) carrying out research studies in the field of branched polymers. Dr. Parisi is a founder and currently the Technical Director of the spin-off company of the University of Calabria “Macrofarm s.r.l.”.

Dr Lu Shao obtained the doctorate (Ph.D.) from National University of Singapore. He is currently a full professor in School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in China. Before joining HIT in 2006, he had worked as the assistant project manager in C-PAK Company, Singapore for more than one year. His research interests are advanced membrane materials and functional composite materials, with a particular focus on energy and environmental issues. He was awarded the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad in 2008 and New Century Excellent Talents in University in 2011. He has published more than 70 SCI-indexed paper and filed more than 40 patents (US, PCT and China).

Dr. Ummartyotin received PhD in polymer science at The Petroleum and Petrochemical College, Chulalongkorn University in 2011 and spent for a year as postdoctoral fellowship research associate at Center of Biocomposite and Biomaterials Processing, University of Toronto, Canada. In 2015, he was promoted as assistant professor in materials science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Thammasat University, Thailand. He specialized in bio-based composite materials, cellulose technology, chitin and chitosan as application such as electronic device, hydrogel in medical technology, as well as food contact materials, photocatalytic process for wastewater treatment. Dr. Ummartyotin holds Toray Thailand Science Foundation Awards 2017.

Dr. Buckner obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Purdue University in 1988. He has held faculty appointments at Saint Louis University, Columbus State University, and the University of Arizona, Tucson. He has served as Chair of Chemistry at Saint Louis University and Dean of Parks College Engineering, Aviation, and Technology. He has held visiting appointments at the Air Force Research Laboratory (Dayton, OH) and the Naval Research Laboratory (Washington D.C.). Dr. Buckner is co-Founder of nanoMetallix LLC and has over 75 publications, patents, and book chapters.

Dr. Rilton Alves de Freitas obtained a Ph.D in Sciences- Biochemistry/Chemistry of Macromolecules, with focus on biopolymers and SLS, rheology, NMR and thermal analysis. He spent one year as postdoctoral fellow at Tulane University/USA at PolyRMC group and one year as visiting researcher at Institute of Molecules and Materials of Le Mans, France. Actually, he is professor of Physical and Colloidal Chemistry at Federal University of Paraná. His research activity is related to real time polymerization and polymer chemical/enzymatic modification, water-in-water Pickering emulsions, rheology, polymer and surfactant interactions. He is author/co-author of over 70 publications, patents and book chapters.

Dr. Poletto is a chemical engineer and obtained a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Materials Engineering from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Currently, Dr. Poletto is professor and researcher at University of Caxias do Sul, working with rocket science, polymers and composite materials. He has published more than 100 scientific publications and several book chapters. He is also member of the Polymer Laboratory Research Group at University of Caxias do Sul.

Dr. Shevchenko graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and technology. Obtained Ph.D. from Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He also holds Dr.Sc. in Chemistry from Institute of Synthetic Polymeric Materials, Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He has published over 170 scientific publications, 5 books and book chapters. At present he is Leading Researcher at the Institute of Synthetic Polymeric Materials.

Dr. Yildiz studied chemistry at Karadeniz Technical University, finishing his Ph.D. in 1998 supervised by Prof.Baki Hazer . He came to Kocaeli University as an assistant professor in 1998. After postdoctoral work on miniemulsion and emulsion polymerization with Prof. Markus Antonietti, Dr Katharina Landfester and Dr Klaus Tauer at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Golm, Germany) he returned to Turkey and was promoted to associate professor in 2004. He was a visiting scientist at the University of Liverpool, Department of Chemistry within the Centre for Materials Discovery working with Prof. Andy Cooper and Dr Jon Weaver (2008). He became a full professor in 2009. His research interests include macroinitiators, heterophase polymerization, polymeric phthalocyanines and hydrogels. Dr.Yildiz is currently one of the Editor of "Current Applied Polymer Science" journal, published by Bentham Science Publishers.