The Polymer Chemistry blog has a new writer, Dr Cyrille Boyer. Cyrille will be joining Remzi Becer and Julien Nicolas in bringing you weekly ‘Author of the Week’ and ‘Paper of the Week’ posts, in addition to conference and other polymer chemistry news. We’d like to give Cyrille a warm welcome, more information on him can be found below…
Dr. Cyrille Boyer received his Ph-D in polymer chemistry from the University of Montpellier II (awarded in 2006). His Ph-D was in collaboration with Solvay-Solexis and devoted to the synthesis of new graft copolymers using grafting “to”. At the end of his PhD, he undertook an engineer position with Dupont Performance and Elastomers, dealing with the synthesis of original fluorinated elastomers. Later, he joined the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD) as a senior research fellow under the guidance of Prof. Tom Davis. Since 2010, he is a lecturer in the School of Chemical Engineering and an Australian Research Council Fellow (APD-ARC). In 2011, he joined the UNSW Australian Centre for NanoMedicine as a group leader to develop new polymeric nanoparticles for drug delivery and gene therapy. The same year, Cyrille started a new research area on the preparation of new hybrid nanoparticles/polymers for hydrogen storage in collaboration with Francois Aguey-Zinsou (School of Chemical Engineering). Cyrille’s research interests mainly cover the preparation of well-defined polymers for drug delivery and siRNA delivery, protein polymer conjugates, hybrid organic-inorganic nanoparticles for imaging and energy storage. He is also working to develop new controlled radical polymerization. He has co-authored over 90 peer-reviewed research papers, including book chapters and international patents.
