The POLYCHAR Scientific Committee

Chairman: Prof PE Mallon

Local Organizing and Programme Committee

Prof PE Mallon (University of Stellenbosch, SA), pemallon@sun.ac.za
Prof H Pasch (University of Stellenbosch, SA), hpasch@sun.ac.za
Prof AJ van Reenen (University of Stellenbosch, SA), ajvr@sun.ac.za
Prof B Klumperman (University of Stellenbosch, SA), bklump@sun.ac.za
Aneli Fourie (University of Stellenbosch, SA), aef2@sun.ac.za

Scientific Committee

President of POLYCHAR
Witold Brostow (University of North Texas, USA), brostow@unt.edu
Vice Presidents:
Michael Hess (Chosun University, Korea), hess_iupac@yahoo.de
Byang-Wook Jo (Chosun University, Korea), joon@Chosun.ac.kr
Elisabete Lucas (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), elucas@ima.ufrj.br
Jean-Marc Saiter (University of Rouen, France), jean-marc.saiter@univ-rouen.fr

Holger Schönherr (University of Siegen, Germany), schoenherr@chemie.uni-siegen.de
Valerio Causin (Padua University, Italy), valerio.causin@unipd.it
Suprakas Ray (CSIR, South Africa), rsuprakas@csir.co.za
Jaisong He (Chinese Academy of Science, China), hejs@iccas.ac.cn
Dhanjay Jhurry (University of Mauritius, Mauritius), djhurry@uom.ac.mu
Andrew Wittaker (University of Queensland, Australia), a.whittaker@uq.edu.au
Riaan Luyt (University of the Free State, South Africa), Luytas@qwa.ufs.ac.za
Mehrdad Negahban (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA), mnegahban@unl.edu
Rameshwar Adhikari (Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu), nepalpolymer@yahoo.com
Poonam Tandon (University of Lucknow, India), poonam_tandon@hotmail.com
Shigeru Okamoto (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan), okamoto.shigeru@nitech.ac.jp
Snja Lucic Blagojevic (Kovacevic), slucic@fkit.hr
Masaru Matsuo Dalian (University of Technology, China), mm-matsuo@live.jp

Awards

The POLYCHAR Prize Committee chaired by the distinguished members of the Scientific Committee usually awards the outstanding presentations in either oral or poster format.

There are two categories of Prizes:

1. Prizes awarded before the conference:
Paul J. Flory Polymer Research Prize (up to 3 per year)
International POLYCHAR Materials Science Prize (up to 3 per year)

2. Prizes awarded at the conference:
Bruce Hartmann Prize for Young Scientist (up to age 35, 1 year)
Jürgen Springer Prize for a Young Scientist (up to age 35, 1 year)
Carl Klason prize for the Best Student Paper (First prize, Second Prize, Thrid Prize, per year)
IUPAC Prize for a Student Poster (3 per year)
Diplomas of Distinction for Student Papers (up to 4 per year)

POLYCHAR Prize Commmittee

Prize Chairman: Jean-Jacques Pireaux (University of Namur, Belgium), jean-jacques.pireaux@unamur.be

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