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CURRICULUM VITAE
Prof. Harm-Anton Klok
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Institut des Matériaux, Laboratoire des Polymères
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 – October 1993 Study of Chemical Technology. University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands).
November 1993 – 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 – March 1993 Research stay at the Central Polymer Research Laboratory of BASF AG (Ludwigshafen, Germany).
February 1997 – 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 – 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 – February 2003 Project-leader in the group of Prof. K. Müllen, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Mainz, Germany).
March 2003 – September 2008 Assistant Professor (tenure track). Director of the Polymers Laboratory (Institute of Materials), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland).
October 2008 – Associate Professor (Institute of Materials and Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering). Director of the Polymer Laboratory (Institute of Materials), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale 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 – 01.12.1998).
2) Emmy Noether Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). (01.09.1999 – 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– ).
2) Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the „European Polymer Journal“ (2008 – ).
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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