Join Professor Theoni Georgiou, Professor in Polymer Chemistry in the Department of Materials, to hear how precise control of polymer chemistry and architecture enables the design of the tailored materials that shape modern life.
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We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday 14 January!
Imperial Inaugurals are term-time lectures that celebrate our newest Professors, recognising their academic journey and showcasing their research.
Abstract
Today, polymers underpin many aspects of modern life. Many are embedded in aqueous-based formulations and serve diverse functions that are not always evident to the everyday user.
The ability to tailor and control the properties of polymeric formulations and materials depends on our capacity, as manufacturers, to adjust the polymer’s chemistry, chain length, architecture, and the placement of chemical groups along the molecular chains.
Theoni Georgiou is a Professor of Polymer Chemistry at Imperial College London. She has demonstrated how the properties and applications of polymeric materials can be finely tuned by manipulating these polymer characteristics. In her inaugural lecture, Theoni will showcase the importance of these characteristics and how we can tailor them to achieve desired properties.
Biography
Theoni Georgiou is a Professor in Polymer Chemistry in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. She obtained a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Cyprus in 2001, followed by a PhD in Polymer Chemistry in 2006 under the supervision of Professor Costas Patrickios. She then worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Antonios Mikos at Rice University (USA). In October 2007, she was awarded an RCUK Academic Fellowship and moved to the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hull. In January 2014, she joined the Department of Materials at Imperial College London, where she was promoted to Professor in 2022. In 2017, she received the 2016 Macro Group UK Young Researchers Medal for “contributions to polymer science which show outstanding promise for the future.”
She is an active member of the polymer community. In the past, she has served on the MacroGroup UK committee (Chair, 2019–2022), the Materials Chemistry Division (MCD) Council of the RSC, and the European Polymer Federation (EPF) committee. Currently, she serves on the editorial advisory boards of European Polymer Journal, Polymer International, and Polymer Chemistry, and is an Associate Editor for European Polymer Journal.
