José M. Asua

He earned his BS in Chemistry and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bilbao and the PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Zaragoza. He did postdoctoral research at the University of Liege. He was Fulbright scholar at Lehigh University and Visiting Professor at Waterloo University. His research has been focused on the fundamental investigation of industrially important polymerization processes. He has received several awards including Euskadi Research Award; Excellence in Research from RSEQ; Leloir Award from the Government of Argentina; Rhone-Poulenc Award for Clean Technologies and Prof. Martínez Moreno Award in Invention and Innovation. He was cofounder and Director for 12 years of the Institute for Polymer Materials (POLYMAT), as well as founder and Scientific Director for 12 years of the Basque Center for Macromolecular Design and Engineering, POLYMAT Fundazioa.