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Associate Professor Bronwyn Laycock

University of Queensland

Bronwyn Laycock has a diverse background in translational research – degradable polymers, biomaterials, organic and organometallic synthesis, pulp and paper chemistry, and general polymer chemistry. She is currently working across a range of projects with a focus on materials for circular economy applications. A key area is the production and processing of biodegradable, bioderived polymers, including their fundamental crystallisation kinetics, compositional distribution and morphologies, mechanical property manipulation, and production of blends and (nano)composites for desirable properties and novel applications. The application areas in her research program include biopolymers (particularly polyhydroxyalkanoates), biocomposites, controlled release matrixes for pesticide and fertiliser applications, polyurethane chemistry, polymer foams, biodegradable packaging, carbon nanofibre production and peptide based conducting nanowires. In recent years the main focus has been on the mechanistic characterisation of polyhydroxyalkanoates produced using mixed culture bacteria and fermented waste carbon streams and their analogues.

As a Project Leader and Deputy Program Leader within the CRC for Polymers, she managed a project that delivered an oxodegradable thin film polyethylene that was commercially licenced by Integrated Packaging. This work earned the team a Joint Chairman’s Award for research/commercialization (CRC for Polymers) and an Excellence in Innovation Award (CRC Association).

As a former Senior Research Scientist (CSIRO Division of Molecular Science), she was also awarded the Joint CSIRO Medal for Research Achievement 2009 for her work on the extended wear contact lens project (within the Vision CRC), which was successfully commercialised by Ciba Vision as the Focus Day/Night and the O2Optix lenses. More than half of all contact lenses sold in the world today are silicone hydrogel lenses, which had their genesis in Australia through the CRC program, bringing much increased comfort to millions of people worldwide. In 2007 alone, the licence revenues from the sale of these products earned the Vision CRC more than $15 million. These extended wear contact lenses are recognised as CSIRO’s fourth top invention (http://www.csiro.au/en/About/History-achievements/Top-10-inventions).

She also has extensive experience in statistical analysis in diverse processes such as wastewater chemistry, kinetics of chemical reactions etc. and has four years’ experience in the pulp and paper industry, working on novel chlorine-free bleaching technologies.

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Dr Silvia Vignolini
Professor Brett P. Fors
Professor Kazuo Sakurai
Professor Dr André H Gröschel
Professor Hideharu Mori
Associate Professor Jenny Pringle
Dr Franck D’Agosto
Dr Muriel Lansalot
Associate Professor Joselito Razal
Professor Neil Cameron
Dr Maria Chiara Arno
Dr Bruno De Geest
Professor Derek Irvine
Professor Bart Jan Ravoo
Dr Amanda Pearce
Professor Laura De Laporte
Professor Guosong Chen
Professor Alan Rowan
Professor Greg Qiao
Mr Sebastian Spierling
Assistant Professor Christian Pester
Professor Dr Andreas Walther
Dr Rona Chandrawati
Professor Tanja Junkers
Dr Frederik Wurm
Professor Michelle Coote
Dr Guillaume Delaittre
Associate Professor Kei Saito
Professor Darren Martin
Dr Marion Gaborieau
Assistant Professor Maxwell J Robb
Professor Jadranka Travas-Sejdic
Associate Professor Erik Berda
Professor Naoko Yoshie
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