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Melville Lecture
Each year we host the Melville Lecture where we invite a world-leading scientist to come to Cambridge and spend up to a week in the Melville Laboratory. During this time they engage with the researchers in the lab and also give a lecture to the department. It is a great opportunity for group members to engage in a more informal manner with an internationally leading academic and also present and discuss their own research.
2023 | Prof. Nicholas A. Kotov
University of Michigan
“Chirality-Complexity Relations for Nanostructures”
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"Topometric Design of Self-Assembled Biomimetic Composites"
2019 | Prof. Luisa de Cola
Université de Strasbourg
"Luminescent complexes: assemblies, sensing, towards artificial virus"
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"Breakable and self-assembled materials. Synthesis and applications"
2017 | Prof. Takuzo Aida
University of Tokyo
"Stimuli-Responsive Smart Soft Materials Fabricated under Non equilibrated Conditions"
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"Rational Strategy for Chain-Growth Supramolecular Polymerization"
2016 | Prof. Karen L. Wooley
Texas A&M University
"Natural Product-based Engineering Polymers: A Special Emphasis toward (Degradable) Materials for Orthopedic, Drug Delivery and Other Applications"
2014 | Prof. David A. Weitz
Harvard University
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2013 | Prof. Jeffery S. Moore (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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2012 | Prof. Laura L. Kiessling (Wisconsin-Madison)
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2011 | Prof. Geoffrey W. Coates (Cornell)
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2009 | Prof. Dennis E. Discher (Pennsylvania)
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2007 | Professor David A. Tirrell (Caltech)
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2006 | Prof. Bert Meijer (TU/e, Eindhoven)
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Previous Winners
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