Petr Vlcek

Dr Petr Vlcek Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Controlled Macromolecular Synthesis Heyrovsky Sq. 2 Prague Czech Republic 16206 Email: vlcek@imc.cas.cz Biographical Sketch: He was born in 1941 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He graduated in 1961 in Chemistry in the Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, where worked on coordination polymerization of butadiene. Then he joined Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Prague, and started to work on anionic polymerization of methacrylates. Here he received his PhD in 1975. In 1977 he was a postdoc at the State University of New York, Syracuse with Professor Michael Szwarc, working on stability of living alpha-methylstyrene. After coming back he was engaged in the ligated anionic polymerization of acrylic esters and in a cooperation with L. Lochmann he developed one of the systems for living acrylate polymerization. Afterwards, his research interest turned to controlled radical polymerization, namely ATRP and to controlled modifications of natural polymers. He was promoted in 2001 to Doctor of Science in the Academy of Sciences and to Adjunct Professor to North carolina State University in 2005.