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FUNCTIONAL POLYMER LABORATORY

 

PROF. CHRISTOPH WEDER

2100 Adelbert Road
416 Kent Hale Smith Building
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7202

Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering

Case Western Reserve University

Phone ++1 216 368 6374
Fax ++1 216 368 4202
Fax ++1 216 368 8527

E-mail christoph.weder@case.edu


Christoph Weder is Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering and Professor of Chemistry at Case Western Reserve University and also serves as a Research Scientist at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center.

Chris, a Swiss native and naturalized Irishman, was born on July 30, 1966 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and grew up in Zürich, Switzerland. Chris was educated at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, where he worked in Professor Ulrich W. Suter’s group and received his academic degrees in chemistry (Dipl. Chem. ETH) in 1990 and polymer science (Dr. sc. nat.) in 1994. Awarded with a fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation, he subsequently joined Professor Mark Wrighton’s group in the Chemistry Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA as a post-doctoral fellow. He returned to ETH Zürich in 1995, where the Materials Department appointed him first as head-assistant and lecturer, and 1999, after completion of his ‘Habilitation’, as independent lecturer.

In January 2001 Chris joined the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case, where he established the Functional Polymer Laboratory. His primary research interests are the design, synthesis and investigation of structure-property relationship of novel functional polymer systems, in particular advanced materials with unusual optic or electronic properties, (semi)conducting conjugated polymers, stimuli-responsive polymers, biomimetic materials, and polymer nanocomposites.

Chris Weder has co-authored about 100 scientific papers and book chapters and is co-inventor of 5 issued and 3 pending patents. He has helped to establish a spin-off company, consults for a number of multinational clients, and serves on the board of directors of Gel Instrumente AG. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Macromolecules, Journal of Materials Chemistry, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, and Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials, and regularly assists as referee for about two dozen Scientific Journals and Funding Organizations. Weder is a recent recipient of the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, the DuPont Young Professor Award and an NSF Special Creativity Award.

Chris Weder's complete CV (.pdf) and a List of Publications, Patents, and Presentations (.pdf) can be downloaded here.