Short Bio:
Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Carnegie Mellon University
https://www.cmu.edu/maty/members/Kris.html
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski is J.C. Warner University Professor of Natural Sciences and Director of the Center for Macromolecular Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). In 1994, he discovered Cu-mediated atom transfer radical polymerization, which was commercialized in 2004 in the USA, Japan, and Europe to prepare various advanced materials. His research is focused on the synthesis of well-defined macromolecules and hybrid materials via living and controlled polymerizations using radical and ionic mechanisms to prepare advanced materials for optoelectronic, biomedical, environmental, and energy-related applications. He has authored 25 books, >100 book chapters, and >1350 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and holds 72 US patents. His work has been cited in the scientific literature >210,000 times (h-index: 218, Google Scholar). He has mentored >300 undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral trainees while at CMU. Past Editor-in-Chief of Progress in Polymer Science, he is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Inventors as well as European, Australian, Georgian, Hungarian, Polish and Russian Academies of Sciences.
Dr. Matyjaszewski’s achievements have been honored by many distinctions. He received the 2023 National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences, the 2021 Grand Prix de la Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie, the 2017 Franklin Medal in Chemistry, the 2015 Dreyfus Prize in Chemical Sciences, the 2011 Wolf Prize in Chemistry, the 2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, and American Chemical Society (ACS) Awards in: Chemistry of Materials (2019), Applied Polymer Science (2011) and Polymer Chemistry (2002). He is the recipient of thirteen honorary degrees.
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