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2024 Award Winners
Congratulations to the two winners of the 2024 CNC-IUPAC Travel Awards:
Helen Tran, University of Toronto
Next-generation electronics will autonomously respond to local stimuli and be seamlessly integrated with the human body, opening the doors for opportunities in environmental monitoring, advanced consumer products, and health diagnostics for personalized therapy. The underpinning of such next-generation electronics is the development of new materials with a wide suite of functional properties beyond our current toolkit. Organic polymers are a natural bridge between electronics and soft matter, where the vast chemical design space allows tunability of electronic, mechanical, and transient properties. Our research group leverages the rich palette of polymer chemistry to design new materials encoded with information for self-assembly, degradability, and electronic transport. The CNC-IUPAC Travel Award for 2024 will enable us to showcase our recent work to an international audience.
Lucas Caire da Silva , McGill University
Lucas Caire da Silva received his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from the University of Campinas, Brazil, in 2010. In 2011, he began his Ph.D. research at the University of Florida with Prof. Kenneth Wagener, focusing on precision polyolefin synthesis and polymer dynamics using solid-state NMR. After completing his Ph.D., Lucas conducted postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany, with Prof. Dr. Katharina Landfester from 2016, developing hierarchical catalysts based on nested nanoparticle-in-vesicle systems. Between 2020 and 2023, he led a group at MPIP focusing on bioinspired cell-like systems, especially in multicompartment microreactors and adaptive colloidal systems. Since 2023, Lucas has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at McGill University, Canada, continuing his work on bioinspired materials. He will attend the 50th World Polymer Congress (IUPAC MACRO 2024) at the University of Warwick, UK, July 1-4, 2024.
