Gabriela Garbonova and Bige Bati have left the group to finish their PhD! Thank you for sharing with us a part of your lives and researches, best luck with the last efforts on your doctorate ❤️

Prof. Haritz Sardon is currently visiting the Nanjing Tech University (NJUT), College of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Engineering. Big collaborations need long travels!    

Helia Ventribout presents her Final Thesis in Chemistry for the reduction of agricultural waste in the Campus Magazine. Congratulations Helia! Her study seeks to reduce agricultural waste and promote more environmentally friendly and productive agriculture, It aims to enhance the process of...

Thought and organized by Prof. Steven De Meester, Prof. Kim Ragaert and dr. Haritz Sardon, the event is an open forum related with Plastic Waste Management that will be celebrated between the 26 and the 28 of May 2025 in San Sebastian, Spain. Many important researchers are already taking part....

Inspira Bizitzak aims to be a meeting point between students and professionals who develop their work in different STEAM fields, that is, scientific-technological, artistic and humanistic fields. We aim to show the public a wide range of academic and professional paths. Spaces are created for...

Congratulation to our fellow Giulia Vozzolo who just defended her PhD thesis Photo- and Thermo-Switches for Spatiotemporal Control of Dynamic Systems. Thank you for your hard work within the group, it was a great pleasure to walk this path together. Best of luck for your next experiences!

San Sebastián will host the inaugural edition of the Conference Series on Additive Manufacturing of Soft Materials, between October 6th and October 10th, 2025. This conference focusing on AM of soft materials will assemble diverse communities of researchers from both academia and industry. It...

Many congrats to our funder Prof. Haritz Sardon, who just joined Polymer Chemistry's Editorial Board as an Associate Editor! Find out more about Haritz here

The annual meeting point of the Grupo Especializado de Polimeros arrived also this year and we couldn't miss it! We are glade to take part with many of our researchers: two talks by dr. Xabier Lopez de Pariza y dr. Marta Ximenis; Flash presentation by Jon Ayestaran; posters by Oihane Varela, Aritz...

Congratulation to our PhD student Jon Ayestaran for the second best speech at IBEREO Conference 2024! From the 4 to 6th September 2024, the Iberian Meeting on Rheology (IBERHEO 2024) was held at Instituto Superior de Agronomia – Universidade de Lisboa. This biennial international event, is a...

Congratulation to our PhD students Ohiane Varela and Jon Ayesteran for winning the Best Speech Award at MZT Conference! Materialen Zientzia eta Teknologia Kongresua is a congress dedicated to Science and Technology of Materials in Basque Language. This year it was held between the 3 and 4 of July....

This night at 21:00 and tomorrow at 15:00 will be transmitted Dr. Haritz Sardon interview in radio Euskadi Irratia for Norteko ferrokarrila program. Don't miss it!

Happy birthday Polymat! 25 years of research together! 🤩 For the occasion we are organizing a special event: 🗓 June 19th, 2024 at 11:00 📍 Auditorio Antonio Beristain in the Carlos Santamaria Zentroa, San Sebastian (Spain) 🥂 Free aperitif 🎨 Photo exhibition: 11 years of POLYMAT Scientific...

Our poster won the EHU contest for the Chemistry Faculty's 50 years! Two of our propositions were chosen, check them out here! Option #1 by Elena Righini Option #2 by Marta Ximesis and Ainara Tejero Parra        

This year too Polymat is presenting Polymat Spotlight, the International Workshop on Macromolecular Materials! This workshop series aims at exploring and increasing the visibility of emerging and technologically-relevant macromolecular materials. POLYMAT Spotlight 2024 was held in San Sebastian,...

Prof. Haritz Sardon gived a lecture at POLY-CHAR 2024 in Madrid. The Madrid Edition of Poly-Char highlighted “Polymers for our future” to stimulate discussions on polymeric materials that can provide answers to urgent societal demands, including sustainability, recyclability, energy storage &...

Guillem Seychal finishes his 1-year internship at Polymat and is continuing with his PhD at the University of Mons, in NIPU. NIPU-EJD is an European Joint Doctorate in “Synthesis, Characterization, Structure and Properties of Novel Non-Isocyanate Polyurethanes”. NIPU-EJD is formed by a consortium...

Our PhD student Marta Mestre is going to VITO to continue her PhD project. VITO is an independent Flemish research organisation in the area of cleantech and sustainable development. Their goal is to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world. Best of luck for this new adventure!

This year the Belgium Polymer Group Annual Meeting celebrated its 30th anniversary in Blankenberge, Belgium on May 30-31. This edition provided a forum to discuss all current topics in polymer science, both by industrials and academics. The meeting was also a platform for both young polymer...

Thank you for participating in the seminar ‘Is a circular economy for plastics possible?’, held in Donostia / San Sebastian (Spain) on the 22nd and 23rd of May. It was one of our very first events, we were so proud to host you at our university and we hope you enjoyed our program and the whole...

Haritz Sardon together with our researchers Xabier Lopez De Pariza and Alice Marchand is visiting the Wacker industry in German for a special reunion. At WACKER, they are taking responsability for the large amount of energy necessary to run the chemical sector by taking difficult steps towards...

The international scientific dissemination festival took place from 13 to 15 May in 25 different countries all over the world, where city-bars became improvised laboratories to showcase the latest scientific advances. In Donostia/San Sebastian, Pint of Science was held in the bars Alboka, Amuitz,...

Our postdoctoral researcher Fernando Vidal took part in an episode of Resources Radio Podcast with "Toward a More Sustainable Plastic Economy" on April he 15th. Host Kristin Hayes talks with Fernando about technological and policy options to create a more sustainable plastics economy. They...

PhD researcher Giulia Vozzolo has just gained the CONCURSO DE FOTOGRAFIA CIENTIFICA 2024 organized by POLYMAT centre. In the photo Giulia with prof. Maria Paulis. The photo: To Gel or Not to Gel: the Luminous Dilemma in the pH Alcove The image shows the formation of twisted ribbon-type nanofibrils...

          On Friday, April 12th, a group of 4th year high school students from Sopelana Institute (Bizkaia) visited SardonLab. Last year, they received an award for one of the best projects at the Zientzia Azoka by Elhuyar, and the prize included a guided tour of POLYMAT....

Congratulations to our professor Haritz Sardon for receiving the 2024 Polymer Chemistry lectureship! This award, now in its tenth year, honours an early-career researcher who has made significant contribution to the polymer field. The recipient is selected by the Polymer Chemistry Editorial Board...

Seyedeh Maliheh Razavi Esfali is joining again our group! Welcome back Maliheh!

POLYMAT has been accredited as María de Maeztu unit of excellence! This is a prestigious accreditation that is obtained in a call open to all research centers in Spain. The application was led by Prof. David Mecerreyes and the other senior researchers involved were Prof. Alejandro J. Müller, Prof....

Researcher Akshaya Prasad is joining Sardon group as PhD student. Welcome in the team Akshaya!

Seminar coming soon! Is a circular economy for polymers possible? 🗓 May 22-23, 2024 📍 San Sebastian (Spain) 🏷 Registration available here or checking the events page in haritzsardonlab.com The transition towards a circular polymer economy is increasingly encouraged by the global concerns on the...