Richard Hoogenboom

Richard Hoogenboom studied chemical engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e; Netherlands). In 2005, he obtained his PhD under the supervision of Ulrich S. Schubert (TU/e) and continued working as project leader for the Dutch Polymer Institute; partly combined with a part-time position as Senior Product Developer at Dolphys Medical. After postdoctoral training with Martin Möller at the RWTH Aachen (Humboldt fellowship; 2008) and Roeland J. M. Nolte at the Radboud University Nijmegen (NWO veni-grant; 2009), he was appointed as associate professor at Ghent University from July 2010 and promoted to full professor in 2014. His main research interests include stimuli-responsive polymers, supramolecular polymers, and poly(2-oxazoline)s. His research interests include poly(2-oxazoline)s, stimuli-responsive polymers and supramolecular materials. Prof Hoogenboom is (co)inventor in more than 10 patent families and has co-authored over 300 scientific publications. He is currently associate editor for European Polymer Journal and Australian Journal of Chemistry.

Prof. Hoogenboom is a worldwide-recognized expert in the field of poly(2-oxazoline)s with more than 150 articles published in this area, and is the founder and organizer of the biannual symposium on poly(2-oxazoline)s within the American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting.

Prof. Hoogenboom’s work and the research conducted at his group have recently been recognized with the inaugural Polymer Chemistry Lectureship (2015), the fifth PI IUPAC award (2016) and the Ghent University Prometheus award for research (2016).