The POLYMAT Spotlight 2024 International Workshop on Macromolecular Materials (POLYMAT Spotlight 2024) took place in San Sebastian, Spain during 11-14th June 2024. RSC Applied Polymers, Chemical Science and Chemical Communications were pleased to support prizes at this event and we would like to congratulate our winners!
Marco Caliari (left) with Prof Luis Campos (right) during award ceremony.
Marcin A. Majewski (left) with Prof Luis Campos (right) during award ceremony.
Marina González Sánchez (left) with Prof Luis Campos (right) during award ceremony.
Learn more about the prize winners below:
RSC Applied Polymers Prize Marco Caliari (University of the Basque Country) Marco Caliari completed his Bachelor studies at the University of Bologna in 2019 with a thesis on the development of biobased, super amphiphilic vitrimers carried out in an Erasmus framework at the University of Groningen. Interested in knowing more about sustainability and polymers, he enrolled at KU Leuven. After completing an Internship at the Adolphe Merkle Institute in Fribourg (CH) in the field of supramolecular polymers, he graduated in 2021 with a thesis exploring the synthesis of novel hyperbranched polymers with applications in catalysis. He is now MSCA Fellow in the NIPU-EJD framework working towards the development on new CO2-derived 3D printable resins. |
Chemical Science Prize Marcin A. Majewski (University of Wroclaw) I have a Masters and a PhD degree in organic chemistry, done in the group of Prof Marcin Stępień at the University of Wroclaw (Poland), where I am now pursuing my own research project as an Assistant Professor. In 2020-2022 I joined Prof Harry Anderson in Oxford as a Marie Currie Fellow to create novel, three-dimensional nanoarchitectures based on porphyrin subunits, which could be studied as models for energy and electron transfer, inspired by natural light-harvesting systems. Currently, I’m trying to merge the worlds of dendrimers and macrocycles to build large, aromatic systems by means of covalent templating. Follow me on X (formerly know as Twitter) @MajewskiMarcinA for more, including collaboration opportunities. |
Chemical Communications Prize Marina González (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) My name is Marina González Sánchez, and I am currently in the final year of my PhD at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, within the research group of Prof David González Rodríguez (MSMn). My research focuses on the development of new π-functional supramolecular materials. Specifically, I study how non-covalent interactions between nucleobases contribute to the formation of ordered supramolecular structures at the nanometric level. The main objective is the creation and improvement of properties in materials and organic systems through rational molecular ordering at the nanometric scale using supramolecular self-assembly tools. Outside of my research, I enjoy sharing scientific insights on my X account @Marina_chem, where I occasionally discuss various scientific topics. |
We’d like to congratulate all the prize winners once more, it’s a great achievement for their work to be selected from all the excellent research presented at the event. Thanks to Prof Luis Campos (Associate Editor for Chemical Science) for presenting the awards! We’d also like to thank all organisers, especially Aurelio Mateo-Alonso (Koke) for organising this conference.