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Department of Polymer Chemistry and Materials
Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg
Rte de l'Ancienne Papeterie
P.O. Box 209
CH-1723 Marly 1
Switzerland
E-mail christoph.weder@unifr.ch
Phone ++41-(0)26-300 94 65
Fax ++41-(0)26-300 96 24
www.am-institute.ch
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Christoph Weder is the F. Alex Nason
Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at
Case Western Reserve University and since July 2009 also
Professor for Polymer Chemistry at the
Adolphe Merkle
Institute at the University of Fribourg,
Switzerland. A Swiss native, Chris was educated at the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich,
where he worked in Ueli 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 Mark Wrighton’s group at MIT in
Cambridge 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 2001 Chris joined the Department of
Macromolecular Science and Engineering at CWRU where he
established the Functional Polymer Laboratory. In July
2009 his lab has moved to the University of Fribourg.
Chris’ main 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
has co-authored over 100 scientific papers and book
chapters and is co-inventor of about 10 patents. He
consults for several multinational clients, and serves
on the board of directors of Gel Instrumente AG. He is a
member of several Editorial Boards, including
Macromolecules, Journal of Materials Chemistry,
Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Macromolecular
Chemistry and Physics. He is a 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. |
