A publication led by our group member Xabier Lopez de Pariza on photoacid generators has been selected by Polymer Chemistry as recent HOT article:
” Novel imino- and aryl-sulfonate based photoacid generators for the cationic ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone“.
Congratulations, good teamwork!
Dr. Haritz Sardon has been awarded with the ‘2021 ACS Macro Letters/Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator’ Award.
The ACS journals ACS Macro Letters, Biomacromolecules, and Macromolecules in partnership with the Division of Polymer Chemistry have selected Professors Bradley D. Olsen of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Haritz Sardon of POLYMAT/University of the Basque Country, Spain as the winners of the 2021 ACS Macro Letters/Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator Award.
Professors Olsen and Sardon will be honored during an award symposium at the ACS Fall National Meeting, August 22 – 26, 2021.
Read more: https://axial.acs.org/2021/06/15/2021-acs-macro-letters-biomacromolecules-macromolecules-young-investigator-award-winners/
Yesterday Haritz Sardon was interviewed in the Basque radio station Euskadi Irratia on the occasion of the recently awarded Young Researcher Award – Group Leader category, granted by the Spanish Royar Society of Chemistry (RSEQ).
Listen to the full interview (in Basque) here.
Our spin-off company POLYKEY is very proud to announce the start of the NATURE project, an ambitious initiative towards a more circular plastic economy. We are currently recruiting four highly motivated PhD candidates. The offered positions are available to start August-September 2021 with a duration of 3 years. All positions entail mobility between two countries: 50% of the employment time will be spent at POLYKEY (Spain) and 50% at the University of Birmingham (UK). Apply now!
Haritz Sardon, group leader of the Catalysis and Sustainable Polymers Group at POLYMAT, has been awarded by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) with the Young Researcher Award in the category of Group Leader.