Curriculum Vitae
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Name :
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Harm-Anton Klok
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Date of birth :
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June 21st, 1971
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Place of birth :
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Hoogezand-Sappemeer, The Netherlands
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Nationality :
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Dutch
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Marital status :
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Married, three children
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Languages spoken :
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Dutch, German, English, French
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Education
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August 1989 – October 1993
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Studies of Chemical Technology, University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands)
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November 1993 – January 1997
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Research and teaching assistant in the group of Prof. M. Möller (Organische Chemie III/Makromolekulare Chemie, Universität Ulm, Ulm, Germany)
Topic of PhD Thesis: “Supramolecular and polymeric building blocks for the development of optical ion sensors”
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November 10th, 2004
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Habilitation on “Protein-mimetic polypeptides and protein-inspired hybrid block copolymers” and venia legend in macromolecular chemistry (RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany)
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Academic record
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December 1992 – March 1993
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Research stay at the Central Polymer Research Laboratory of BASF AG (Ludwigshafen, Germany)
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February 1997 – November 1997
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Postdoc in the group of Prof. D. N. Reinhoudt (Laboratory of Supramolecular Chemistry and Technology, Department of Chemical Technology), University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands)
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December 1997 – January 1999
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Postdoc in the group of Prof. S. I. Stupp (Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemistry), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana-Champaign, USA)
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February 1999 – February 2003
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Project-leader in the group of Prof. K. Müllen, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Mainz, Germany)
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March 2003 – September 2008
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Assistant Professor (tenure track) and director of the Polymers Laboratory (Institute of Materials), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland)
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October 2008 – July 2009
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Associate Professor and director of the Polymers Laboratory (Institute of Materials), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland)
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January 2009 – June 2012
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Director of the Section of Materials Science and Engineering (~ Director of undergraduate studies elsewhere).
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August 2009 –
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Full Professor and director of the Polymers Laboratory (Institute of Materials and Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland)
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July 2012 –
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Director, Institute of Materials (EPFL) (~ Department head elsewhere).
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Research interests and competences
Materials & synthetic strategies: Peptide/protein-based materials and peptide/protein-polymer hybrids; Surface-initiated polymerization and polymer brushes; Controlled/”living” polymerization and macromolecular engineering; Dendritic and hyperbranched polymers.
Fields of application: Polymer therapeutics/Nanomedicine; Smart hydrogels; Controlled drug delivery and release systems; Polymer surface modification; Biomaterials coatings; Protein microarrays; Biomineralization; Environmental sensors.
Board and committee membership
1) Board member of the Polymer Group Switzerland (2005 – 2007). As of 08.06.2007, the Polymer Group Switzerland was terminated and merged as a new Division with the Swiss Chemical Society.
2) Board member of the Division Polymers and Colloids of the Swiss Chemical Society (2007 – ).
3) Steering committee member of the European Science Foundation’s (ESF) Research Networking Programme “Experimental and theoretical design of stimuli-sensitive materials (STIPOMAT)”. (2005 – 2009)
4) Steering committee member of the European Science Foundation’s (ESF) Research Networking Programme “Precision Polymer Materials” (P2M) (2011 – 2015).
5) Swiss representative at the European Polymer Federation (EPF). (2006 – )
6) Member of the Editorial (Advisory) Board of the journals:
· Biomacromolecules (01.01.2007 – 31.03.2007)
· European Polymer Journal (01.08.2008 -)
· Journal of Polymer Science A: Polymer Chemistry (01.06.2011 – ).
· Macromolecules (01.01.2012 – 31.12-2014)
· ACS Macro Letters (01.01.2012 – 31.12.2014)
· Macromolecular Rapid Communications (11.2012 – )
· Macromolecular Bioscience (11.2012 – )
7) Associate Editor of the American Chemical Society journal Biomacromolecules (01.04.2007 – )
8) Member of the external advisory board of The Graduate School of Excellence “MAterials science IN mainZ” (MAINZ) (2013 – ).
Awards, academic honours
1) Talent-postdoctoral fellowship of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). (01.12.1997 – 01.12.1998).
2) Emmy Noether Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). (01.09.1999 – 30.04.2003).
3) Thieme Journal Award, 2002.
4) Arthur K. Doolittle Award, American Chemical Society (Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Division), 2007.
5) Visiting Professor, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux (France), July 2010.
6) Chair Professor, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou (China), 2011 – .
7) Visiting Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst (USA), July 2012.
8) Chinese Academy of Sciences visiting professorship for senior international scientists, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China), 2012 – 2013.
9) Guest Professor, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun (China), 2012 – .