Nicholas Ballard

Dr. Nicholas Ballard is Ikerbasque Research Associate Professor at the Basque Center for Macromolecular Design and Engineering, POLYMAT Fundazioa. He obtained a scholarship to attend the University of Warwick (United Kingdom) and was awarded a bachelor degree with first class honours in Chemistry in 2008. He earned a PhD in Chemistry with Industrial Collaboration in the group of Dr. Stefan Bon at the University of Warwick, graduating in 2013. Following the completion of his doctoral studies he moved to the Basque Center for Macromolecular Design & Engineering where he worked as a postdoctoral researcher before beginning his independent scientific career in 2018 with an Ikerbasque research fellowship. In 2024 he was promoted to Ikerbasque research associate professor. The main focus of his research is polymer reaction engineering, with a particular focus on polymerization processes in dispersed media and the development of knowledge-guided machine learning methods.