Congress Chair

Dr. Andriy Voronov

North Dakota State University, USA
Congress Chair

Andriy Voronov is a Professor of Coatings and Polymeric Materials Department at North Dakota State University in Fargo, ND, USA. Before joining NDSU in November 2007 as a tenure-track Assistant Professor, he held a research position at the Institute of Particle Technology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Erlangen, Germany (2003-2007). He completed his academic education in the Ukraine, gaining an MS in Chemical Engineering in 1990 and a PhD in Polymer Chemistry from Lviv Polytechnic National University in 1994. He received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at Coatings and Polymeric Materials in 2013. In May 2018 he was promoted to Full Professor at the same Department.

In 2000-2003, Andriy Voronov was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He has been a Visiting Scientist at Vienna University of Technology in Austria (1995), Visiting Fellow at the University of Ulm Germany (1998-2000), and Institute Charles Sadron, CNRS, Strasbourg, France (1996-1997).

Voronov’s research concentrates on polymers synthesis and further applying new polymers in making nanostructured polymeric materials, particularly, responsive polymeric materials, polymeric biomaterials, polymeric sustainable and renewable materials.