Prof. David HADDLETON has been working in the area of controlled polymer synthesis for over 25 years since being employed at ICI. His PhD “Photochemistry of some organometallic ethene compounds” was under the supervision of Robin Perutz at the University of York in 1986. He spent one year at the University of Toronto as a PDRA. He joined ICI in 1988 and spent one year at the University of Southern Mississippi working with polymer liquid crystals. Moving back to the UK in 1988 he spent 5 years working on GTP and anionic polymerisation prior to moving to Warwick in 1993 and was promoted to full Professor in 1998. He has published over 500 papers and has a Google H-index >85 with over 25000 citations.
He has graduated over 75 PhD students from Warwick. Current work in the group is in different aspects of developing new polymerisation methodology and using this for novel polymers for industrial applications, polymers for personal care applications, (hair and skin care) and for biomedical and nano medicinal applications (new and targeted peptide and protein conjugation). Recent work includes new conjugation strategy, glycopolymers, monomer sequence control and polymerisation in biological media. He has formed two companies and is currently CSO of a transdermal drug delivery company Medherant Ltd.

Prof. Alice MIJA is a scientist with 25+ years of expertise in polymer chemistry & physico-chemistry research. She did her PhD in “Polymers & material science” at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mines de Paris, Sophia-Antipolis (France). From 1992-2004 she was a Researcher at P. Poni Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Iasi, Romania. Since 2004 she is an Prof. at University of Nice. Her research interests lie in the design, synthesis and characterization of monomers, polymers; synthons and materials from bioresources & wastes valorization; hybrid materials and composites; self-assembly and self-organization phenomenon in macromolecular and supramolecular polymeric systems; thermodynamics in complex reactions of anisotropic polymeric systems; phase transitions; structure/property/performance relationship.