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CURRICULUM VITAE
Prof. Harm-Anton Klok
Ecole Polytechnique F¨¦d¨¦rale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Institut des Mat¨¦riaux, Laboratoire des Polym¨¨res
EPFL-STI-IMX-LP
MXD 112 (Bâtiment MXD), Station 12
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
e-mail: harm-anton.klok@epfl.ch
WWW : http://lp.epfl.ch/
Personal
Date of birth June 21th, 1971
Place of birth Hoogezand-Sappemeer, The Netherlands
Nationality Dutch
Marital status Married, three children
Education
August 1989 ¨C October 1993 Study of Chemical Technology. University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands).
November 1993 ¨C January 1997 Research and teaching assistant in the group of Prof. M. Möller (Organische Chemie III/Makromolekulare Chemie, Universität Ulm, Ulm, Germany). Topic of PhD thesis: ¡°Supramolecular and polymeric building blocks for the development of optical ion-sensors¡±.
November 10th, 2004 Habilitation on ¡°Protein-mimetic polypeptides and protein-inspired hybrid block copolymers¡± and venia legendi in macromolecular chemistry (RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany).
Professional experience
December 1992 ¨C March 1993 Research stay at the Central Polymer Research Laboratory of BASF AG (Ludwigshafen, Germany).
February 1997 ¨C November 1997 Postdoc in the group of Prof. D. N. Reinhoudt (Laboratory of Supramolecular Chemistry and Technology, Department of Chemical Technology), University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands).
December 1997 ¨C January 1999 Postdoc in the group of Prof. S. I. Stupp (Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemistry), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana-Champaign, USA).
February 1999 ¨C February 2003 Project-leader in the group of Prof. K. M¨¹llen, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Mainz, Germany).
March 2003 ¨C September 2008 Assistant Professor (tenure track). Director of the Polymers Laboratory (Institute of Materials), Ecole Polytechnique F¨¦d¨¦rale de Lausanne (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland).
October 2008 ¨C Associate Professor (Institute of Materials and Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering). Director of the Polymer Laboratory (Institute of Materials), Ecole Polytechnique F¨¦d¨¦rale de Lausanne (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Materials & synthetic strategies: Peptide/protein-based materials and peptide/protein-polymer hybrids; Surface-initiated polymerization and polymer brushes; Controlled/¡±living¡± polymerization and macromolecular engineering; Dendritic and hyperbranched polymers.
Fields of application: Polymer therapeutics/Nanomedicine; Smart hydrogels; Controlled drug delivery and release systems; Biomaterials coatings; Protein microarrays; Biomineralization; Environmental sensors.
PRIZES AND ACADEMIC HONOURS
1) Talent-postdoctoral fellowship of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). (01.12.1997 ¨C 01.12.1998).
2) Emmy Noether Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). (01.09.1999 ¨C 30.04.2003).
3) Thieme Journal Award, 2002.
4) Arthur K. Doolittle Award, American Chemical Society (Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Division), 2007.
EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
1) Associate Editor of the American Chemical Society journal ¡°Biomacromolecules¡± (2007¨C ).
2) Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the „European Polymer Journal¡° (2008 ¨C ).
BOARD AND COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
1) Board member of the Polymer Group Switzerland. (2005 - 2007). As of 08.06.2007, the Polymer Group Switzerland was terminated and merged as a new Division with the Swiss Chemical Society.
2) Board member of the Division Polymers and Colloids of the Swiss Chemical Society (2007 - ).
3) Swiss representative at the European Polymer Federation (EPF). (2006 - ) |
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