Philippe Dubois

Name	Philippe Dubois
Work Groups	Work Group 1 - Synthesis Work Group 2 - Characterisation
Laboratory	Center of Innovation and Research in Materials & Polymers
Organisation	University of Mons UMONS
Website	morris.umons.ac.be/CIRMAP
Areas of Research	macromolecular chemistry, polymer sciences
Research Keywords	nanocomposites, polymers, bioplastics, catalysis, polymer blends
Areas of Future Interest	bioplastics and biocomposites

Brief CV
Philippe Dubois, Ph.D. in sciences, is full professor at University of Mons (UMONS, Belgium) and honorary senior research associate of the Belgian FNRS. He is currently director of the Center of Innovation and Research in Materials and Polymers (CIRMAP, ca. 130 persons). Prof. Dubois is Scientific Director at Materia Nova Research Center in Mons and Past-President of the Belgian Royal Chemical Society. His expertise covers organic chemistry, macromolecular chemistry, catalysis in polymer materials, melt (reactive) processing/engineering and physico-chemical and thermo-mechanical characterization of nanocomposite and nanohybrid materials, incl. biodegradable polymers and biosourced polymers.
He has authored more than 450 peer-reviewed scientific publications (incl. ca. 40 reviews and book chapters and 80 papers in “Macromolecules”, #1 in polymer science), more than 220 personal communications at conferences and is inventor of 49 patents. He edited 7 books and is member of the editorial board of 8 leading journals in the field of polymers and composites. He is also associate professor at University of Liège, invited professor at University of Namur and adjunct professor at Michigan State University (Faculty of Chemical Engineering, US). Ph. Dubois is currently Vice-Rector of scientific research at UMONS and member of the Royal Academy of Belgium.
Ranked in the “Top100 materials scientists of the 2000-2010 decade” by Thomson Reuters(publised in March 2011): world ranking : 18th (over 500,000 scientists), European ranking : 5th, Belgian ranking : 1st.