University of Minnesota, Department of Chemistry
McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair, University of Minnesota
Director, Center for Sustainable Polymers
Editor-in-Chief, Macromolecules
Biosketch:
Marc Hillmyer received his Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of Florida in 1989 and his Doctorate in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1994. After completing a postdoctoral research position in the University of Minnesota’s Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, he joined the Chemistry faculty at Minnesota in 1997. He is currently the McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Chemistry and leads a research group focused on the synthesis and self-assembly of functional and sustainable polymers. In addition to his teaching and research responsibilities, he is currently the editor-in-chief of Macromolecules and the director of the Center for Sustainable Polymers at the University of Minnesota.