Carlos Guerrero Sanchez studied chemical engineering in Mexico (BSc 1999 at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and MSc in 2001 at Celaya Institute of Technology (ITC)). Thereafter, he worked for two years at the combinatorial chemistry laboratory of the research and development centre of DESC (a major Mexican corporation (KUO)). In 2007, he obtained a PhD degree in combinatorial materials research and polymer science under the supervision of Prof. Ulrich S. Schubert at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) (Netherlands). His PhD thesis was awarded by the Dutch Polymer Institute in 2008. From 2007 to 2009, as a postdoctoral fellow at the TU/e, he founded Ioniqa Technologies, a start-up company in the Netherlands focused on the development of ionic liquids based smart materials. He currently works for CSIRO (Australia) involved in high-throughput experimentation and RAFT Technology. He has co-authored around 40 scientific publications including patent applications.
Link to our research group at CSIRO: http://www.csiro.au/Organisation-Structure/Divisions/CMSE/RAFT-technologies.aspx
What was your inspiration in becoming a chemist?
Mainly my family, some of them are chemists and I like the way chemists or chemical engineers face life.
What was the motivation to write your Polymer Chemistry article?
The need to have a practical, rapid and inexpensive method for the preparation of systematic block copolymer libraries for developing applications for these wonderful materials in a more efficient way.
Why did you choose Polymer Chemistry to publish your work? DOI: 10.1039/C3PY21135E
Because I found out that it became an excellent forum for polymers chemists with very quick publishing times and a very good first impact factor. All in all, the Polymer Chemistry Journal has become very popular within the polymeric community and in a very short period of time.
In which upcoming conferences may our readers meet you?
I will probably be at the Chemiedozententagung 2013 / Festsymposium 125 Jahre Angewandte Chemie congress in Berlin (Germany) in March 2013 and/or at the 34th Australasian Polymer Symposium in Darwin (Australia) in July 2013.
How do you spend your spare times?
I like very much hiking in the beautiful Australian outdoors.
Which profession would you choose if you were not a scientist?
I would have been probably an oil engineer.
