The RACI Polymer Division is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2025 ECR Lectureship is Dr Cheng Zhang from the University of Queensland. Dr Zhang is a Group Leader and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow (former NHMRC Fellow) at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland (UQ). His research focuses on the development…
The RACI Polymer Division is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2025 Jim O’Donnell International Travel Award is Carolin Bapp from the University of Newcastle. Carolin is a PhD candidate working on enzymatic depolymerisation techniques to advance sustainable materials research. Originally from Germany, she holds a B.Sc. in Biomedical Chemistry from Johannes Gutenberg University…
The RACI Polymer Division is delighted to announce that the inaugural Division Lectureship recipient is Dr Changkui Fu from the University of Queensland. The Division lectureship was created in 2023 to provide an opportunity for an exceptional early career researcher working in polymer science here in Australia to undertake an national lecture tour to showcase their…
The RACI Polymer Division is pleased to announce that the 2024 recipient of the David Sangster Polymer Science and Technology award is Associate Professor Matthew Griffith, University of South Australia. Matthew is an internationally recognised leader in the application of printable organic conductors to electronic devices, with a multitude of high-impact research outputs that have…
The 2023 Solomon Lecturer is Prof. Dr. Brigitte Voit, who will be touring Australia in late 2023. Brigitte Voit received her PhD in Macromolecular Chemistry 1990 from University Bayreuth, Germany. After postdoctoral work in 1991/1992 at Eastman Kodak in Rochester, USA, she joined Technische Universität München. After habilitation in 1996, she was appointed 1997 full…
