Craig Hawker

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Craig J. Hawker holds 25 U.S. Patents, has co-authored over 200 papers in the areas of nanotechnology, materials science and chemistry and is listed as one of the Top 100 most cited chemists worldwide over the last decade (1992-2002). He is currently considered to be among the top polymer chemists in the world, and is currently a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Craig Hawker received a B.Sc. degree and University Medal in chemistry from the University of Queensland in 1984 and a Ph.D. in bioorganic chemistry from the University of Cambridge in 1988 under the supervision of Prof. Sir Alan Battersby. Jumping into the world of polymer chemistry, he undertook a post-doctoral fellowship with Prof. Jean Fréchet at Cornell University from 1988 to 1990 and then returned to the University of Queensland as a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow from 1991 to 1993. In 1993 he joined the IBM Almaden Research Center and was recently awarded the 2000 Young Scientists Award from IUPAC, the 2001 Carl S. Marvel Award in Creative Polymer Science by the American Chemical Society, and the 2003 Cooperative Research Award from the American Chemical Society with Professor Tom Russell.

In addition to a variety of named lectureships, Dr. Hawker is editor of the Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Chemistry, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at the University of Queensland and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Intezyne, SYMYX Technologies, Microbar Systems, and Warwick Effect Polymers.

His research has focused on the interface between organic and polymer chemistry with emphasis on the design, synthesis, and application of well-defined macromolecular structures in biotechnology, microelectronics and surface science.