Prof. Nico Bruns

Nico Bruns is Professor of Sustainable Functional Polymers at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. He studied chemistry at the Universities of Freiburg (Germany) and Edinburgh (UK) and graduated with a PhD in Macromolecular Chemistry from the University of Freiburg under the supervision of R. Mülhaupt and J. C. Tiller in 2007. After a postdoc in the biotechnology group of D. S. Clark at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the University of Basel in Switzerland where he received the Venia Docendi for Chemistry in 2014. From 2013 to 2018 he was Associate Professor of Macromolecular Chemistry at the Adolphe Merkle Institute of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) funded by a prestigious Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship. He then joined the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry of the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (UK) as full Professor of Macromolecular Chemistry from 2018 before relocating once more to TU Darmstadt at the end of 2021