COMMITTEES AND AWARDS
The POLYCHAR Scientific Committee
President and Chairman: Witold Brostow
Vice-Presidents:
- Michael Hess
- Byung-Wook Jo
- Elisabete Lucas
- Jean-Marc Saiter
Prize Committee:
- Witold Brostow, President
- Jean-Jacques Pireaux, Chairman
- Goerg H. Michler, Past Chairman
- Rameshvar Adhikari
- Dušan Berek
- Cosimo Carfagna
- Alexander Fainleib
- Ulf W. Gedde
- Michael Hess
- Elizabete F. Lucas
- Masaru Matsuo
- Moshe Narkis
- Jean-Marc Saiter
- R.P. Singh
International Advisory Board
- Dušan Berek
- Witold Brostow
- Sven Henning
- Michael Hess
- Md. Mozaffor Hossain
- Jung-Il Jin
- Byung-Wook Jo
- József Karger-Kocsis
- Ludwik Leibler
- Elisabete F. Lucas
- Peter Mallon
- Masaru Matsuo
- Goerg H. Michler
- Werner Mormann
- Mehrdad Negahban
- Jean-Marc Saiter
- Poonam Tandon
- Andrew K. Whittaker
National Advisory Board of POLYCHAR 20
- Aleksa Bjeliš
- Tomislav Filetin
- Marin Hraste
- Tonka Kovačić
- Krunoslav Pisk
- Vitomir Šunjić
Local Organizing and Scientific Committee of POLYCHAR 20
- Zrinka Buhin
- Emi Govorčin Bajsić
- Tamara Holjevac-Grgurić
- Zlata Hrnjak-Murgić
- Vera Kovačević (Convener
- Stanislav Kurajica (Chairman
- Mirela Leskovac
- Sanja Lučić Blagojević
- Jelena Macan
- Robert Pintarić
- Marko Rogošić
- Vesna Tomašić
- Elvira Vidović
- Vesna Volovšek
- Domagoj Vrsaljko
POLYCHAR AWARDS
The POLYCHAR Prize Committee chaired by the distinguished members of 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 the age 32, 1 per year)
- Jürgen Springer Prize for a Young Scientist (up to the age 32, 1 per year)
- Carl Klason prize for the Best Student Paper ( First prize, Second Prize, Third Prize per year)
- IUPAC Prize for a Student Poster (3 per year)
- Diplomas of Distinction for Student Papers (up to 4 per year)
POLYCHAR Scientific Committee
- A. Abdel Azim, Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute, Cairo
- Rameshwar Adhikari, Tribhuvan University, Katmandu
- Güneri Akovali, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
- Carmen Albano, Central University of Venezuela, Caracas
- Rimantas Banevicius, Kaunas University of Technology
- Virgil Barboiu, Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Iasi
- Dušan Berek, Institute of Polymers of the Slovak Academy of Science, Bratislava
- Alexander Bismarck, Imperial College, London
- Sanja Lučić Blagojević, University of Zagreb
- Gisèle Boiteux, Claude Bernard University, Lyon
- Witold Brostow, Committee President; University of North Texas, Denton
- Cosimo Carfagna, University of Naples
- Victor M. Castaño, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Queretaro
- Hyoung Jin Choi, Inha University, Incheon
- B.V.R. Chowdari, National University of Singapore
- Peep Christjanson, Technical University of Tallinn
- Yoshiki Chujo, Kyoto University
- Stephen J. Clarson, University of Cincinnati
- Valerio Cousin, University of Padua
- António M. Cunha, University of Minho, Guimaraes
- Nandika Anne D'Souza, University of North Texas, Denton
- Rashmi C. Desai, University of Toronto
- Karel Dušek, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
- Alexander Fainleib, Institute of Chemistry of Macromolecular Compounds of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv
- Aracelli Flores, Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, Madrid
- Enikõ Földes, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
- William C. Forsman, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Ulmas Gafurov, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Tashkent
- Andre Galembeck, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife
- Andrzej Galeski, Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies of the Polish Academy of Science, Łódź
- Ulf W. Gedde, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
- Jose Luis Gomez-Ribelles, Polytechnic University of Valencia
- Clæs-Gøran Gustafson, Norwegian National Technical University, Trondheim
- Jean-Michel Guenet, University of Strasbourg
- Chan Chin Han, MARA University of Technology, Selangor
- Jiasong He, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
- Mikael Hedenqvist, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
- Sven Henning, Fraunhofer Institute for Materials Mechanics, Halle
- Alex M. Van Herk, Eindhoven University of Technology
- Michael Hess, University of Siegen
- Roald Hoffman, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- Md. Mozaffor Hossain, Rajshahi University
- Bryony James, University of Auckland
- Dhanjay Jhurry, University of Mauritius, Reduit
- Byung-Wook Jo, Chosun University, Kwangju
- José M. Kenny, University of Perugia, Terni
- Vera Kovačević, University of Zagreb
- Nodar Lekishvili, Ivane Javahishvili Tbilisi State University
- Rimantas Levinskas, Linthuanian Energy Institute, Kaunas
- Betty L. López, University of Antioquia, Medellin
- Elizabete F. Lucas, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Robert Maksimov, Institute of Polymer Mechanics of the National University of Latvia, Riga
- Peter E. Mallon, University of Stellenbosch
- James E. Mark, University of Cincinnati
- Masaru Matsuo, Nara Women's University
- Gregorio Meira, Universidad del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina
- Kevin P. Menard, Perkin-Elmer Co., Denton
- Véronique Michaud, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
- Goerg H. Michler, Martin Luther University, Merseburg
- Carles Miravitlles, Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona
- Ivanka Moneva, Institute of Polymers of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
- Werner Mormann, University of Siegen
- Alejandro J. Mueller, Simon Bolivar University, Caracas
- Moshe Narkis, Technion, Haifa
- Mehrdad Negahban, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Martin Obadal, Borealis Polyolefine GmbH, Linz
- Haydee M. Oliva, University of Zulia, Maracaibo
- Stanislav Pathlazan, Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Chernogolovka
- Jean-Jacques Pireaux, University of Namur
- Costas S. Patrickios, University of Cyprus, Nicosia
- Polycarpos Pissis, Technical University of Athens
- Ryszard Pyrz, Aalborg University
- Deodato Radic, Pontifical University of Chile, Santiago
- Marcelo Rabello, Federal University of Campina Grande
- Volker Ribitsch, University of Graz
- Bernabé L. Rivas, University of Concepción
- Jean-Marc Saiter, University of Rouen, Saint Etienne du Rouvray
- Holger Schönherr, University of Siegen
- Ester Segal, Technion, Haifa
- Danuta Sek, Centre of Polymer Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Zabrze
- Kwan-Ho Seo, Kyungpook National University, Taegu
- Michael Silverstein, Technion, Haifa
- Ricardo Simoes, Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Arcozelo
- George P. Simon, Monash University, Clayton
- R.P. Singh, University of Lucknow
- Karin Stana-Kleinschek, University of Maribor
- Robert F.T. Stepto, University of Manchester
- Tomasz Sterzynski, Poznan University of Technology
- Miriam Strumia, National University of Cordoba
- Kohji Tashiro, Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya
- Poonam Tandon, University of Lucknow
- Aglaia (Lila) Vassilikou-Dova, University of Athens
- Robert A. Weiss, University of Akron
- Andrew Whittaker, University of Queensland
- Graham Williams, University of Wales, Swansea
- Sujitra Wongkasemjit, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
- Chi Wu, The Chinese University, Hong Kong
- Chunye Xu, University of Washington, Seattle
- Oleg Yurkevich, Institute of Metal & Polymer Mechanics of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Homel