Committee

Scientific Committee of POLYCHAR

• A. Abdel Azim, Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute, Cairo
• Rameshwar Adhikari, Tribhuvan University, Katmandu
• Güneri Akovali, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
• Carmen Albano, Central University of Venezuela, Caracas
• Rimantas Banevicius, Kaunas University of Technology
• Virgil Barboiu, Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Iasi
• Dusan Berek, Institute of Polymers of the Slovak Academy of Science, Bratislava
• Alexander Bismarck, Imperial College, London
• Gisele Boiteux, Claude Bernard University
• Witold Brostow, Committee President; University of North Texas, Denton
• Cosimo Carfagna, University of Naples
• Victor M. Castaño, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Queretaro
• Hyoung Jin Choi, Inha University, Incheon
• B.V.R. Chowdari, National University of Singapore
• Peep Christjanson, Technical University of Tallinn
• Yoshiki Chujo, Kyoto University
• Stephen J. Clarson, University of Cincinnati
• António M. Cunha, University of Minho, Guimarães
• Nandika Anne D'Souza, University of North Texas, Denton
• Rashmi C. Desai, University of Toronto
• Karel Dušek, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
• Alexander Fainleib, Institute of Chemistry of Macromolecular Compounds
  of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv
• Aracelli Flores, Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, Madrid
• Enikõ Földes, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
• William C. Forsman, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
• Ulmas Gafurov, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Tashkent
• Andre Galembeck, Federal University of Pernambuco
• Andrzej Galeski, Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies of the Polish Academy of Science
• Ulf W. Gedde, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
• Jose Luis Gomez-Ribelles, Polytechnic University of Valencia
• Clæs-Gøran Gustafson, Norwegian National Technical University, Trondheim
• Jean-Michel Guenet, University of Strasbourg
• Jiasong He, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
• Mikael Hedenqvist, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
• Alex M. Van Herk, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven
• Michael Hess, Committee Vice President, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg
• Roald Hoffman, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
• Md. Mozaffor Hossain, Rajshahi University
• Bryony James, University of Auckland
• Dhanjay Jhurry, University of Mauritius, Reduit
• Byung-Wook Jo, Chosun University, Kwangju
• José M. Kenny, University of Perugia, Terni
• Jagjit Khurma, University of the South Pacific, Suva
• Vera Kovacevic, University of Zagreb
• Nodar Lekishvili, Ivane Javahishvili, Tbilisi
• Rimantas Levinskas, Deputy Director, Linthuanian Energy Institute
• Betty L. López, University of Antioquia, Medellin
• Elizabete F. Lucas, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
• Robert Maksimov, Institute of Polymer Mechanics of the National University of Latvia, Riga
• Peter E. Mallon,University of Stellenbosch
• James E. Mark, University of Cincinnati
• Masaru Matsuo, Nara Women's University
• Gregorio Meira, Universidad del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina
• Kevin P. Menard, Perkin-Elmer Co., Denton
• Véronique Michaud, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
• Goerg H. Michler, Martin Luther University, Merseburg
• Carles Miravitlles, Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona
• Ivanka Moneva, Institute of Polymers of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
• Werner Mormann, University of Siegen, Siegen
• Alejandro J. Mueller, Simon Bolivar University, Caracas
• Moshe Narkis, Technion, Haifa
• Mehrdad Negahban, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
• Martin Obadal, Borealis Polyolefine GmbH, Linz
• Haydee M. Oliva, University of Zulia, Maracaibo
• Jean-Jacques Pireaux, University of Namur
• Costas S. Patrickios, University of Cyprus, Nicosia
• Polycarpos Pissis, Technical University of Athens
• Ryszard Pyrz, Aalborg University, Denmark
• Deodato Radic, Pontifical University of Chile, Santiago
• Marcelo Rabello, Federal University of Campina Grande
• Volker Ribitsch, Karl Franzens University, Graz
• Bernabe L. Rivas, University of Concepción, Concepción
• Jean-Marc Saiter, University of Rouen, Saint Etienne du Rouvray
• Ester Segal, Technion, Haifa
• Danuta Sek, Centre of Polymer Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Zabrze
• Kwan-Ho Seo, Kyungpook National University, Taegu
• Michael Silverstein, Technion, Haifa
• Ricardo Simoes, Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave,Arcozelo
• George P. Simon, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
• R.P. Singh, University of Lucknow, Lucknow
• Karin Stana-Kleinschek, University of Maribor
• Robert F.T. Stepto, University of Manchester
• Tomasz Sterzynski, Poznan University of Technology
• Miriam Strumia, National University of Cordoba
• Kohji Tashiro, Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya
• Poonam Tandon, University of Lucknow
• John Texter, Eastern Michigan University
• Aglaia (Lila) Vassilikou-Dova, University of Athens
• Robert A. Weiss, University of Akron
• Graham Williams, University of Wales, Swansea
• Sujitra Wongkasemjit, Chulalongkom University
• Chi Wu, The Chinese University, Hong Kong
• Chunye Xu, University of Washington, Seattle
• Oleg Yurkevich, Institute of Metal & Polymer Mechanics of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Homel

European Organizing Committee in Rouen, France

The POLYCHAR 19 organizers in Kathmandu have earned privilege of strong moral and technical support from the POLYCHAR 17 organizer led by Professor Jean Marc Saiter (Univeristy of Rouen, France). In Particular, the Rouen group will take care of Management of Webpage and Assistance in Technical Program of the Conference. The French Committee comprises the following members:

• Jean-Marc SAITER
• Mohamed BENZOHRA
• Eric DARGENT
• Boulos YOUSSEF
• Laurent DELBREILH
• Florian HAMONIC
• Larisa DOBIRCAU
• Khadidja ARABECHE
• Manil SOUFI
• Lucie RUPERT
• Bidur RIJAL