Biography

VITA

Brief Biography

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Education
Dr. honoris causa in Chemistry, Lvivska Politechnika National University, 1999

Honors and Distinctions

• Honorary Member of the Society of Plastics and Rubber Engineers, Zagreb – elected March 27, 2007
• Paul J. Flory Polymer Research Award (with Koichi Hatada), April 21, 2006, Nara, Japan
• Doctor of Science honoris causa, University of Lucknow - awarded February 6, 2006
• Visiting Professor of Physics, University of Rouen, Springs in 2003, 2004 and 2005
• Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry - elected April 2004
• Honorary Member of the Chemical Society of Georgia, Tbilisi - elected April 2003
• Member of the European Academy of Sciences, Brussels - elected October 2002
• Keynote Speaker on Polymer Performance at the 62nd Annual Technical Conference of the Society of Plastics Engineers (ANTEC-SPE), San Francisco, May 2002
• Visiting Professor of Polymer Engineering, Royal Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 2001
• President, Scientific Committee of POLYCHAR World Forum on Advanced Materials (53
  countries represented), 2000-
• Doctor honoris causa in Chemistry, Lvivska Politechnika National University, Lviv,
  September 14, 1999 (the second honorary doctorate since World War II in the University founded in 1844; their first ever Dr. h.c. degree was awarded in 1912 to Marie Curie)
• Visiting Professor of Polymer Engineering, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, summers in 1992, 1994 and 1999
• International Council on Materials Education: President 1999–
• Visiting Professor of Physics, Argentinian National University at San Luis, Fall 1998
• U.S. Navy Distinguished Visiting Professor, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Summer 1988
• Fred A. Schwab International Award of the Society of Plastics Engineers, 1997 (one of 6 annual prizes for 38 000 members)
• Corresponding Member, Union for Polymer Research, Berlin - elected 1994
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London
• Full Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Mexico City.