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. |
