Polymers 2025

Prof. Richard Hoogenboom is heading the Supramolecular Chemistry (SC) group that was founded based on his appointment as associate professor in 2010 (full professor since 2014). He obtained a PhD from Eindhoven University of Technology under supervision of Prof. Ulrich S. Schubert and performed postdoctoral research with Prof. Martin Möller (RWTH Aachen) and Prof. Roeland Nolte (Radboud University Nijmegen). Prof. Hoogenboom has published more than 430 refereed scientific articles and received 20,000+ citations (h-index 65) and is listed as inventor on 21 patent families. He is currently editor-in-chief for European Polymer Journal and associate editor for Australian Journal of Chemistry. Prof. Hoogenboom is the recipient of the inaugural RSC Polymer Chemistry award (2015), the PI IUPAC young investigator award (2016), the Prometheus award for research from Ghent University (2016), the ACS Macromolecules/Biomacromolecules Young Investigator award (2017) and the ACS Carl S. Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award. Since January 2018, Prof. Hoogenboom is a cofounder of Avroxa BVBA  that commercialized poly(2-oxazoline)s as UltroxaTM.