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Bordeaux Polymer Conference - May 28-31, 2018 - Bordeaux INP

Organic Polymers Polymerization Catalysis Macromolecular Engineering Natural Polymers Biopolymers Sustainable Polymer Chemistry Polymer Materials Polymer Devices Polymer Self-Assembly Physical-Chemistry of Polymers Functional Polymers
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Welcome
Young session award
Young session award
F. Eisenreich
F. Eisenreich
B. Benicewicz
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R. Segalman
R. Segalman
M. Vamvakaki
M. Vamvakaki
D. Collis
D. Collis
G. Malliaras
G. Malliaras

Professor Ben L. FERINGA

Last update Friday 16 February 2018

University of Groningen, Netherlands

Ben L. FERINGABen L. FERINGA

Ben L. Feringa obtained his PhD degree at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands under the guidance of Professor Hans Wynberg. After working as a research scientist at Shell in the Netherlands and the UK, he was appointed lecturer and in 1988 full professor at the University of Groningen and named the Jacobus H. van't Hoff Distinguished Professor of Molecular Sciences in 2004. He was elected Foreign Honory member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. Ben Feringa is member of Council of the RSC. In 2008 he was appointed Academy Professor and was knighted by Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands. Feringa’s research has been recognized with a number of awards including the Koerber European Science Award (2003), the Spinoza Award (2004), Chemistry for the Future Solvay Prize (2015), The 2016 Nobel prize in Chemistry and the Tetrahedron Prize 2017.

Feringa’s research interest includes stereochemistry, organic synthesis, asymmetric catalysis, molecular switches and motors, self-assembly, molecular nanosystems and photopharmacology.

http://www.benferinga.com/biography.php