Polymers

Prof. Dr. Vladimir N. Uversky

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Department of Molecular Medicine, USF Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., MDC07, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
Interests: intrinsically disordered proteins; protein folding; protein misfolding; partially folded proteins; protein aggregation; protein structure; protein function; protein stability; protein biophysics; protein bioinformatics; conformational diseases; protein–ligand interactions; protein–protein interactions; liquid-liquid phase transitions
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Dr. Henri Vahabi

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Optical Materials, Photonics and Systems Laboratory (LMOPS), Université de Lorraine, F-57000 Metz, France
Interests: flame retardancy; thermal degradation; biobased flame retardants; biopolymers; aging of flame retardant and polymers; fiber-reinforced composites
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Prof. Dr. Lopresto Valentina

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Department of Chemical, Materials and Industrial Production Engineering, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy
Interests: composites; damage; delamination; NDE; impact load; innovative natural composites
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Prof. Dr. Luca Valentini

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Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Ambientale, Università di Perugia, UdR INSTM, Strada di Pentima 4, 05100 Terni, Italy
Interests: graphene; carbon nanotube; polymer physics; functional nanocomposites
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Dr. Patrick van Rijn

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Department of Biomedical Engineering-FB40, W.J. Kolff Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science-FB41, University Medical Center Groningen, A. Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
Interests: biohybrid systems; polymeric microgels; surface chemistry; biomaterials; biointerfaces; cell biology; biomedical applications
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Dr. Cristiano Varrone

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Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajers Vej 7H, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark
Interests: chemistry and bioscience; fermentation technology; biorefinery; plastic biodegradation; waste valorization
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Dr. Stefano Vecchio Ciprioti

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Dipartimento S.B.A.I., Sapienza Università di Roma, Via del Castro Laurenziano 7, I-00161 Rome, Italy
Interests: thermal behavior; decomposition; pyrolysis; solid-state kinetics; thermodynamics of phase transitions
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Prof. Dr. Ricardo Riguera Vega

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CiQUS, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Interests: polymeric nanostructures for biomedical applications and on stimuli responsive dynamic polymers

Prof. Dr. José Ignacio Velasco

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Poly2 Group, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC BarcelonaTech), ESEIAAT, C/Colom 11, 08222 Terrassa, Spain
Interests: polymers; composites; foams; nanocomposites
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Dr. Rebeca Hernandez Velasco

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Institute of Polymer Science and Technology, (ICTP – CSIC), 28006 Madrid, Spain
Interests: polymers; gels; biomedical applications
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Prof. Dr. Dhayalan Velauthapillai

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Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, P.O. Box 7030, 5020 Bergen, Norway
Interests: DSSCs; perovskites; polymer solar cells; quantum dot solar cells; photocatalytic water-splitting; hydrogen production
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Prof. Dr. Iole Venditti

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Department of Sciences, Roma Tre University of Rome, Via della Vasca navale 79, 00146 Rome, Italy
Interests: nanomaterials; inorganic chemistry; drug delivery; sensing; optical materials; photonics
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Dr. Franck Vernerey

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Interests: solid mechanics; soft matter; theoretical and computational mechanics; dynamic and active networks
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Dr. Peter Virnau

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Institute of Physics, Johannes-Gutenberg Universität, D 55099 Mainz, Germany
Interests: collective behavior of self-propelled particles; nucleation; knots in polymers, proteins and DNA

Prof. Dr. Annamaria Visco

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Department of Engineering, University of Messina, 98122 Messina, ME, Italy
Interests: polymers; biopolymers; composite/nanocomposite polymer based; polymer characterization
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Prof. Dr. Dan Cristian Vodnar

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Faculty of Food Science and Technology, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Manastur 3–5, 400372 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Interests: food biotechnology; food fermentation; bioactivity of natural extracts and chemical synthesized compounds; immobilization and microinjection of enzymes and microorganisms; microencapsulated bioactive powders; in vitro gastrointestinal digestions; developing innovative functional foods; food science; molecular gastronomy
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Dr. Alexey V. Volkov

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A.V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospect 29, 119991 Moscow, Russia
Interests: membrane design; membrane fabrication; membrane-based separation processes; high-throughput techniques; industry oriented applications
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Prof. Dr. Sergey Vyazovkin

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Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 901 S. 14th Street, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Interests: kinetics of thermally stimulated chemical reactions and phase transitions in the condensed phase; thermal analysis methods
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Prof. Dr. Ernst Wagner

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Department of Pharmacy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Butenandtstr. 5-13, 81377 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Interests: therapeutic protein delivery; therapeutic gene delivery; siRNA, oligonucleotide, RNA, pDNA delivery; polymer-based programmed drug delivery

Prof. Dr. Manfred H. Wagner

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Polymer Engineering/Polymer Physics, Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), Ernst-Reuter-Platz 1, 10587 Berlin, Germany
Interests: constitutive equations for polymeric systems; the application of rheology to polymer processing; structure-property relations for polymers

Dr. Michael Walter

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Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum, Stefan-Meier-Str. 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
Interests: mechanoresponsive materials; density functional theory; weak interactions; self organized structures; catalysis
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Dr. Christine Wandrey

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Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL SB ISIC-GE, CH C1 392, station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Interests: water-soluble polymers; polyelectrolytes; polyelectrolyte complexes; hydrogels; biomaterials; radical polymerization/copolymerization; characterization of charged macromolecule; analytical ultracentrifugation
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Prof. Dr. Dapeng Wang

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State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China
Interests: polymer; colloids & interfaces; diffusion; single-molecule microscopy; AI-assisted polymer informatics
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Prof. Dr. Dengxu Wang

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National Engineering Technology Research Center for Colloidal Materials & Key Laboratory of Special Functional Aggregated Materials, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
Interests: organosilicon synthetic methodologies; organosilicon materials; porous material; fluorescent materials; special organosilicon materials; polymer synthesis
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Prof. Dr. Dong Hwan Wang

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School of Integrative Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Republic of Korea
Interests: organic electronics (OPV, OPD, and Perovskite); device physics; nanomaterials (synthesis and characterization); nanomorphology control; nanopatterning; oxide materials; stamping-transfer nanotechnology
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Dr. Hsing-Lin Wang

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Department of Material Science and Engineering, South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen 518055, China
Interests: polymer synthesis (conjugated polymers and fullerenes); processing and applications of conjugated polymers; polymer nanofibers and colloids; polymer/metal composites; polymeric sensors and actuators; polyeletrolyte (supramolecular) self-assembly
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Dr. Qingsheng Wang

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Department fo Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3122, USA
Interests: process safety; machine learning; flammability; composites
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Prof. Dr. San-Lang Wang

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1. Department of Chemistry, Tamkang University, New Taipei City 25137, Taiwan
2. Life Science Development Center, Tamkang University, New Taipei City 25137, Taiwan
Interests: marine chitin; applied microbiology; enzyme inhibitors; antidiabetic drugs
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Prof. Dr. Tzu-wei Wang

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Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 40402, Taiwan
Interests: biomaterial; tissue engineering; nanomedicine
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Prof. Dr. Wencai Wang

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Key Laboratory of Beijing City for Preparation and Processing of Novel Polymer Materials, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
Interests: surfaces and interfaces; elastomeric materials; composite materials

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