Dr. Marly Jacobi Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Instituto de Química/ UFRGS Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500 Campus do Vale Bairro Agronomia Porto Alegre Brazil 91.501-970 Email: jacobi@iq.ufrgs.br Biographical Sketch: Lecturer at the Chemistry Institute of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) since 1981. Associate professor at the same Institute, since 2002. In 1989 obtained her doctoral degree at the University of Freiburg. Since 1982, she is involved with the syntheses and characterization of polydienes as well as the deformation mechanism of rubbery networks. In 1996, intensified her interest in the area of Science and Technology of Rubber, mainly chemical modification of diene rubbers, polymer-filler interactions in rubber compounds and processing and characterization of thermoplastics elastomers. Supervised 14 masters and 6 Ph.D. candidates at the pos-graduated program of Chemistry and Materials Science at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. |