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Editor-in-Chief

David Haddleton is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Warwick, UK. Professor Haddleton's research centres on controlled polymerisation to give macromolecules of designed, desired and targeted structure. Work is directed to the synthesis of polymers one monomer at a time in an attempt to approach the degree of sophistication exhibited by natural polymers. An overriding aspect of all the work is the desire to produce polymers by commercially accessible processes for biosciences and materials applications.  

Associate Editor

Eva Harth was born in Cologne, Germany and studied chemistry at the University of Bonn and the University of Zurich, Switzerland. In 1994 she joined the group of Prof. K. Muellen at the MPI for Polymer Research, obtaining her PhD in 1998 for work in the area of fullerene adducts and polymers. A postdoctoral fellowship with CPIMA (NSF-Center for Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies) brought her to the IBM Almaden Research Center, California USA, to work under the direction of Prof. Craig J. Hawker focusing on the development of new living free polymerization techniques and approaches to nanoscopic materials. In 2001 she joined XenoPort, Inc. as a Staff Scientist investigating enabling technologies for the increased bioavailability of macromolecular therapeutics. After the extensive industrial experience she started at Vanderbilt University as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry in 2004 with a secondary appointment in the Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt Medical School. In 2007 she was awarded with the NSF CAREER Award for young faculty and her research advances delivery technologies across challenging biological barriers and towards highly vascular tumors.

Prof. Brent S. Sumerlin graduated with a B.S. from North Carolina State University (1998) and obtained a Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Southern Mississippi (2003) under the direction of Prof. Charles L. McCormick. After serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University under the direction of Prof. Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (2003-2005), he joined the Department of Chemistry at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas, USA) as an assistant professor in 2005 and was promoted to associate professor in 2009. Prof. Sumerlin joined the Department of Chemistry, the George and Josephine Butler Polymer Research Laboratory, and the Center for Macromolecular Science and Engineering at the University of Florida as an associate professor in the fall of 2012. He has received several awards, including an Oak Ridge Associated Universities Ralph E. Powe Award (2007), an NSF CAREER Award (2009), an ACS Leadership Development Award (2010), and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2010). He is a member of the editorial advisory boards for several journals and is now an Associate Editor of Polymer Chemistry. Current research in his group involves the synthesis of functional macromolecules, responsive polymer systems, polymer-protein bioconjugates, and dynamic covalent macromolecular assemblies.

Managing Editor

Liz completed an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and Biological Chemistry at the University of Nottingham where she stayed to carry out a PhD in organic synthesis under the supervision of Professor Jim Anderson. Since then, she has worked for the RSC as an Assistant Editor for Dalton Transactions, CrystEngComm and Chemical Society Reviews, and as a Deputy Editor for the Materials portfolio. Liz has been Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry and Soft Matter and Managing Editor of Polymer Chemistry since January 2011. Liz is also Managing Editor of the newly announced Biomaterials Science.

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