CV of Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
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Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Chemistry
4400 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(412) 268-3209; fax (412) 268-6897, email: km3b@andrew.cmu.edu

Prof. Kris Matyjaszewski (Kris MA-TY-YA-SHEV-SKI)
-got his Ph.D. at Polish Academy of Sciences in 1976
-in 1985 he moved to Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
-where he is currently University Professor and J.C. Warner Professor of Natural
Sciences, a position held previously by late Prof John Pople, 1998 Nobel Laureate
He has received several awards including:
-2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award
-From American Chemical Society: 2007 Mark Senior Scholar Award, 2004
Award for Cooperative Research in Polymer Science; 2002 Award in Polymer
Chemistry and 1995 Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award.
-2005 Annual UK Macro-Group Medal
-2004 Prize of the Foundation of Polish Science (aka Polish Nobel Prize)
-1999 Humboldt Award for Senior US Scientists from Germany
He received five honorary degrees: University of Ghent, Belgium (2002),
Russian Academy of Sciences (2006), Lodz Polytechnic, Poland (2007),
University of Athens, Greece (2008) and Institut Polytechnique, Toulouse, France
(2010).
In 2005 he was elected as a foreign member of Polish Academy of Sciences
and in 2006 member of US National Academy of Engineering.
He is the editor of “Progress in Polymer Science”, “Central European
Journal of Chemistry”, and serves on the editorial boards of fourteen other
chemistry journals.
He has been a visiting professor to University of Paris, Bordeaux,
Strasbourg, Ulm, Bayreuth, Freiburg, Pisa, Tokyo, Pusan and MMI.
He is best known for the development of atom transfer radical
polymerization (ATRP) which has been commercialized in US, Europe and in
Japan. Over 40 companies have been members of ATRP and CRP Consortia at
CMU and 10 commercial licenses have been signed.
He has published over 600 peer-reviewed papers and 14 books. He holds 36
US and 118 international patents. His first paper and review on ATRP has been
cited > 2000 times each and his citation record (>37,000) ranked among top 10
scientists in all fields of chemistry world –wide in 2004-2010