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Invited Speaker: Harm-Anton Klok

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Harm-Anton Klok

Harm-Anton Klok was born in 1971 and studied chemical technology at the University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands) from 1989 to 1993. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1997 from the University of Ulm (Germany) after working with M. Möller. After postdoctoral research with D. N. Reinhoudt (University of Twente) and S. I. Stupp (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL), he joined the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Mainz, Germany) in early 1999 as a project leader in the group of K. Müllen. In November 2002, he was appointed to the faculty of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne, Switzerland). There he is currently heading the Polymer Laboratory in the Institute of Materials. Awards include a Talent-postdoctoral fellowship of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO, 1997), an Emmy Noether Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, 1999-2003), a Thieme Journal Award (2002) and the 2007 Arthur K. Doolittle Award from the American Chemical Society (Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Division). Harm-Anton Klok is Associate Editor of the American Chemical Society Journal Biomacromolecules. The research interests of his laboratory include: 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.