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IPCG Conference 2027
Committee
Chair
Dr. Timo Melchin
Chair of the Organizing Committee
Wacker Chemie
Dr. Timo Melchin graduated in chemistry from University of Hamburg in 2008 and received his doctoral degree in 2011. He joined Wacker Chemie AG as R&D manager in 2011 and started his industrial career in research and development in Wacker’s POLYMERS division. He became Senior R&D manager in 2016 and R&D group leader in 2018, heading a R&D segment group with focus on product-, process- and application-oriented research and development. His research interests focus on pressure polymerization in dispersed media, functional protective colloids, radical ring-opening polymerization, kinetic modelling of polymerization reactions and spray drying processes.
Vice Chair
Dr. Muriel Lansalot
Vice Chair
CNRS - University of Lyon
Muriel Lansalot earned her PhD in polymer chemistry in 1999 from Sorbonne University (formerly University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France). After completing postdoctoral fellowships in France and Australia, she joined the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in 2004. Since 2008, she has been a researcher at the Catalysis, Polymerization, Processes, and Materials Laboratory (CP2M, Lyon, France), where she was promoted Research director in 2018. Her research focuses on the synthesis of polymer and organic/inorganic colloids using free-radical polymerization and RDRP techniques. Her current work also includes photopolymerization in dispersed media, the synthesis of degradable particles via radical ring-opening polymerization, and the development of polymers for lithium-based batteries.
Webpagehttps://www.cp2m.org
https://www.cp2m.org/people/43-directrice-de-recherche-muriel-lansalot.html
Dr. Franck D’Agosto
Vice Chair
CNRS - University of Lyon
Franck D’Agosto completed a PhD in polymer chemistry at the CNRS-bioMérieux joint research unit (University of Lyon, France) before working at the University of Sydney (Australia) as a postdoctoral fellow at the Key Center for Polymer Colloids. Appointed to the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in 2002, he is now research director at the Catalysis, Polymerization, Processes and Materials (CP2M) laboratory (Villeurbanne, France). His research focuses on the control of polymer architectures using different polymerization chemistries – such as controlled catalytic and radical polymerizations – carried out in solution or in dispersed media.
https://www.cp2m.org
https://www.cp2m.org/people/58-directeur-de-recherche-franck-dagosto.html
Local Host
Prof. Hideto Minami
Local Host
Kobe University
Hideto Minami (Professor, Dr. Eng.) is the group leader of the Soft Matter Interface Laboratory at Kobe University. He was born in 1970 and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in 1994 and a master’s degree in 1996 from Kobe University. He began his research career as a research associate in Prof. Masayoshi Okubo’s group at Kobe University, and he subsequently received the doctor’s degree of engineering from Kobe University in 2002. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004 and to Professor in 2019. His main focus field is the preparation of functional polymer particles by heterogeneous radical polymerization processes from the viewpoint of colloid chemistry/physical chemistry.