Topics: Design and Synthesis of pi-Conjugated Polymers and Interlayer Materials for Polymer Solar Cells

Speaker: Prof. Mats Andersson （University of South Australia）
Time: Jul. 6th, 2016, 9：30-10：30 AM
Add: Rm 211 Institute of Super-Microstructure and Ultrafast Process in Advance Materials, South Campus
Biography

Prof. Mats Andersson:
Mats Andersson performed a joint PhD-work at the former Departments of Organic Chemistry and Polymer Technology at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, and he received his PhD degree in Organic Chemistry in 1995. He spent one year as a post doctoral fellow at the Institute for Polymers and Organic Solids, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), working in Prof. Alan Heegers group. Thereafter, he returned to Chalmers where he was appointed Professor in Polymer Chemistry in 2004 and he held a chair in Polymer Chemistry 2007-2015. Between 2008-2012, Mats was the head of the division of Applied Chemistry at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology. In 2011 he received the Arrhenius medal from the Swedish Chemical Society and in 2012 he was elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, IVA. In 2014 Mats moved from Sweden to Adelaide to join University of South Australia (UniSA) and the Ian Wark Research Institute as a Research Professor. The institute was converted into the Future Industries Institute in 2015. He was awarded a South Australian Chair in Energy in 2014 and he is currently maintaining a close cooperation with Chalmers University of Technology.