Richard Hoogenboom#
| Membership Number: | 7127 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.sc.ugent.be |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7398-2058 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-hoogenboom-66b5441/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 Senior full professor at Ghent University
- 2018 Founder and scientific advisor at Avroxa BV to commercialize poly(2-oxazoline)s and polyalkyleneimines
- 2014 Full professor at Ghent University
- 2010 Associate professor at Ghent University (research professorship awarded based on competitive open call)
- 2009 Senior postdoctoral researcher at the Radboud University Nijmegen (Veni-award; NWO) Institute for Molecules and Materials, supervisor Prof. Roeland Nolte
- 2008 Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the RWTH Aachen DWI, supervisor Prof. Martin Möller
- 2007 Senior product developer at Dolphys Medical BV (part-time 0.3 fte)
- 2005 Project leader for the Dutch Polymer Institute in the group of Prof. U.S. Schubert
Fields of Scholarship
- Responsive polymers
- Poly(2-oxazoline)s
- Supramolecular materials
- Polymers for biomedical applications
- Hydrogels
- Polymer chemistry
Honours and Awards
- 2025 ACS PMSE Fellows award
- 2022 SPSI 3rd Dr. Sivaram endorsement lecture award
- 2022 ACS POLY Fellows award
- 2021 ACS Carl S. Marvel award for creative polymer chemistry
- 2017 ACS Macromolecules/Biomacromolecules young investigator award
- 2017 Elected member of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE)
- 2016 Prometheus Award for Research from Ghent University
- 2016 5th Polymer International IUPAC young investigator award
- 2015 Polymer Chemistry Lectureship award from the royal society of chemistry
- 2012 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
