Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, we are pleased to announce the winners of the Polymers Travel Awards 2019: an exceptional PhD student, Ms. Sarah Glass, and an outstanding postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Fanlong Meng.

Ms. Sarah Glass is a PhD Student at the University of Leipzig, Germany. Her PhD project is focused on developing hydrogels (hydrophilic polymers) for wound care applications. She will attend the European Polymer Congress 2019 (EPF 2019), held on 9–14 June 2019, in Hersonissos Heraklion Crete, Greece.

Dr. Fanlong Meng is a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Germany. His research is related to polymer science, mainly focusing on elastic–plastic transition of transient semiflexible polymer networks, morphology of active polymer networks, and mechanic responses of magnetic elastomers under external magnetic fields. He will attend the 5th International Soft Matter Conference (ISMC2019), held on 3–7 June 2019, in Edinburgh, UK.

They will be awarded 800 Swiss Francs each towards their travel expenses to attend the conferences. We congratulate the winners for their accomplishments.

We would like to thank all the applicants for their participation with high-quality submissions and the Evaluation Committee members for reviewing the numerous applications received.

Kind regards, 
Polymers Editorial Office