The 2021 KINGFA Young Investigator Award winner is Dr. Feng Jiang, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Wood Science at the University of British Columbia, and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Sustainable Functional Biomaterials. Dr. Jiang received his PhD in 2011 from Virginia Tech, under the supervision of Professor Maren Roman. Prior to …
The 2020 KINGFA Young Investigator Award winner is Dr. Gustav Nyström, Head of Laboratory for Cellulose & Wood Materials, Empa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology. Dr. Nyström has made significant contributions mainly within the field of nanocellulose but also within the field of amyloid fibril self-assembly and amyloid based functional materials. …
The 2019 KINGFA Young Investigator Award winner is Dr Johan Foster, Associate Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Virginia Tech. Johan’s work has encompassed a number of fundamental contributions to the field of fibers and cellulose nanomaterials, including chemical modification, surface chemistry, and fundamental interactions. Specific examples that have had a large …
Silvia Vignolini is the 2018 KINGFA Young Investigator Award Winner. The ACS CELL Division is pleased to announce that Dr. Silvia Vignolini, Reader in Chemistry and Biomaterials at the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, has been selected as the winner of the 2018 KINGFA Young Investigator Award. Dr. Vignolini’s work centred around deciphering the …
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