Ludwik Leibler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Ludwik Leibler

Polish physicist

Date of Birth: 02-Sep-1951

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Profession: physicist, chemist

Nationality: Poland, France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Ludwik Leibler

  • Ludwik Leibler, born in 1952 is a Polish-born French physicist.
  • He is Professor of École supĂ©rieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI ParisTech) and member of the French Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering. Ludwik Leibler received his PhD in 1976 in Theoretical Physics from Warsaw University, and then spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the Collège de France in Paris under the direction of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes.
  • He is a researcher in Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) which he joined first in Stasbourg then in Paris where he worked on theoretical and experimental aspects of polymer self-assembly and dynamics, interfaces, gels and charged polymers.
  • From 1996 to 2003 he was the founding director of a joint laboratory between CNRS and chemical company Elf Atochem (later Arkema) which regrouped researchers from academia and industry.
  • In 2001 he became professor of Soft Matter and Chemistry at École SupĂ©rieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles in Paris where his research interests include influence of molecular disorder on mesoscopic structure and properties of polymer materials, impact resistance, fracture and adhesion, design of stimuli responsive materials and supramolecular chemistry. Dr.
  • Leibler is a member of National Academy of Engineering, recipient of CNRS Silver Medal, France IBM Prize in Material Science, the Polymer Physics prize of the American Physical Society (2006) and the Polymer Chemistry Award of the American Chemical Society (2007).
  • In 2014, he was awarded EPJE Pierre-Gilles De Gennes Lecture Prize.
  • In March 2019, Ludwik Leibler received honorary doctoral degree from the division of the Faculty of Sciences of Ghent University .
  • The 2019 European Polymer Federation (EPF) prize was awarded to Ludwik Leibler “For groundbreaking contributions to the understanding of the phase behavior of block copolymers and for the discovery of new materials based on dynamic bonds like selfhealing rubbers, vitrimers and tissue glues” .

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