Hanwha Total IUPAC Young Scientist Award 2016

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Hanwha Total IUPAC Young Scientist Award 2016

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The 2016 Hanwha-Total IUPAC Young Scientist Award has been awarded to Moon Jeong Park and Brent Sumerlin.

The Hanwha-Total IUPAC Young Scientist Award (formerly Samsung-Total Petrochemicals—IUPAC Young Scientist Award) is dedicated to outstanding young scientists (younger than 40 years old) and is sponsored by a grant from the aforementioned company. The prize was first awarded during Macro2004, held in Paris, and is granted biennially at each IUPAC World Polymer Congress (WPC). Nominations are made by the chairs of WPC symposia, and the winner is then selected by a committee of the IUPAC Polymer Division. This year, the award was presented at Macro2016 in Istanbul over 17–21 July. There are two 2016 awardees (ex aequo), namely:

Prof. Moon Jeong Park, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea, and

Prof. Brent Sumerlin, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.

Prof. Moon Jeong Park was born in 1977 in South Korea and studied Chemical Engineering at the Seoul National University (supervisor Prof. Kookheon Char). She spent 2006-2009 as post-doctoral scholar in the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California—Berkeley (supervisor Prof. Nitash P. Balsara) before she started her independent career in the year 2009 at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTEC), Pohang, South Korea, where she has been an Associate Professor since 2013. Prof. Park’s research focuses on understanding morphology, ion transport, and light-emitting properties of ionic polymers on the molecular scale, starting from fundamental thermodynamics of ion-conducting block copolymers and extending to micro-phase separation and ion conductivity in hard and soft matter. In particular, she has significantly contributed to the following areas:

Ionic-liquid containing polymers
Design of self-assembled polymer electrolytes
Organic-inorganic nanohybrides for enhanced ion/charge transport
Chemical sensors based on ionic polymers

Prof. Park has received a number of prestigious awards, for example:

the Best Paper Award, IUPAC World Polymer Congress, Paris (2004)
the Young Scientist Award Korea–Japan–China Young Researcher’s Workshop (2010)
the Asia Excellence Award Young Scientists, Soc. Polym. Sci. Japan (2011)
the Chong-Am Science Fellowship, POSCO (formerly Pohang Iron and Steel Company), TJ Park Foundation (2011)
the Young Scientist Award, John Wiley & Sons and the Korean Polym. Soc. (2013)

Prof. Park has published over 61 scientific papers, holds 24 domestic and 14 international patents, and is a member of several editorial boards of prominent scientific journals. There are presently over 1546 citations of her work, for which the h-index is 26.

Prof. Brent Sumerlin was born in the USA in 1976. He studied Polymer Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University (Raleigh) and the University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg), where he obtained his PhD (Polymer Science and Engineering) in the year 2003, supervised by Prof. Charles L. McCormick. He was post-doctoral fellow (supervisor Prof. Kris Matyjaszewski) and Visiting Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburg) until 2005, when he joined Southern Methodist University (Dallas) as Assistant Professor, as Harold Jeskey Trustee Assistant Professor in Chemistry, and finally as Harold Jeskey Trustee Associate Professor in Chemistry during the years 2005-2012. In 2012 he moved to the University of Florida (Gainesville) as Associate Professor in Chemistry, where he became full Professor of Chemistry in 2015. Prof. Sumerlin’s research focuses on:

Reversible-covalent polymeric materials, e.g., self-healing polymers without internal reservoirs of healing agent
Stimuli-responsive polymers, e.g., block copolymers with responsive nanoscale assemblies, useful in, for example, in feedback-controlled drug delivery
“Smart” polymer-protein conjugates, e.g., ones stable under conditions that prevent protein denaturation.

Among other honors Prof. Sumerlin has received:

the NSF Career Award
the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
the JPS Innovation Award
the Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Inventor Award.

He is Kavli Member of the National Academy of Science of the USA, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. Prof. Sumerlin is author/co-author of five books on reversible-deactivation radical polymerization and member of numerous editorial boards of prominent scientific journals. He has more than 200 scientific papers with more than 7000 citations and his h-index is 45.

The IUPAC Polymer Division is especially grateful to Prof. Jung-Il Jin for fostering the relationship with Hanwha Total, to Prof. Michael Hess for chairing the selection committee, and to Prof. Yusuf Yagci for so actively promoting this award at Macro2016.

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Online erschienen: 2016-12-16

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