ProfessorAlexander Bismarck

Biography
Date Role
2009-
Professor of Polymer Materials, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London
2006-2009
Reader in Advanced Materials, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London
2002-2006
Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London
2001-2002
R&D Engineer/Project Leader, Sulzer Innotec, Dept. Mechanical Systems, Section Composite Engineering, later Sulzer Composites, Winterthur, Switzerland (since 01.05.2002 Gurit Suprem)
1999- 2001
Post-doctoral Research Fellow with Prof. Bob Aveyard and Dr. John H. Clint, Surfactant & Colloid Group, Department of Chemistry, The University of Hull
1995- 1999
Dr. rer.-nat. (PhD) in Chemistry, Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Technische Chemie, Fachgruppe Makromolekulare Chemie. Thesis title: "Chemische Modifizierung von Carbonfasern: Elektrokinetische und oberflächenenergetische Charakterisierung, Einfluss auf die Adhäsion zu thermoplastischen Polymeren"
1991-1995
Dipl.-Chem., Technische Universität Berlin (Germany)
Research interests
My research group, the Polymer & Composite Engineering (PaCE) Group, is a multi-disciplinary team with research interests in the manufacture and characterisation of fibre reinforced high performance (nano) composites, porous materials and hydrogels. We focus on the the development of renewable materials, biomaterials for applications in tissue engineering, composite super-capacitors and emulsion templating for the synthesis of porous polymers (so called polymerisable High Internal Phase Emulsions (polyHIPEs)). Furthermore, the group is interested in the social dimensions of materials research.

For more information about our research activities, facilities and the group please visit our webpage: www.ic.ac.uk/pace

Links
Polymer & Composite Engineering (PaCE) Group
The Composite Centre