Ludwik Leibler, born in 1952 is a Polish-born

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physicist. He is Professor of

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(ESPCI ParisTech) and member of the

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and

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. Ludwik Leibler received his PhD in 1976 in Theoretical Physics from

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, and then spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the

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in Paris under the direction of

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. 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

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self-assembly and dynamics,

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s, 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

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) which regrouped researchers from academia and industry. In 2001 he became professor of Soft Matter and Chemistry at École Supérieure 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

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Awards

* 2019 Honorary doctoral degree from the division of the Faculty of Sciences of Ghent University * 2019 European Polymer Federation (EPF) prize * 2015 Descartes-Huygens Prize of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) * 2015 European Inventor Award 2015 * 2014 member of

* 2014 EPJE Pierre-Gilles De Gennes Lecture Prize * 2013 CNRS Medal of Innovation * 2012 Grand Prix, Fondation de la Maison de Chimie * 2012 Netherlands Polymer Technology Network Award * 2009 Grand Prix of French Chemical Society, Prix Pierre Süe * 2009 Grand Prix of Academy of Sciences, Prix IFP * 2007 American Chemical Society Award in Polymer Chemistry * 2006 Polymer Physics Prize of American Physical Society * 2004 Foreign Associate of National Academy of Engineering, Washington DC * 2004 Distinguished Polymer Scientist Award, IUPAC World Polymer Congress Macromolecules 2004 * 1989 IBM Scientific Prize in Materials Science * 1989 CNRS Silver Medal * 1986 French Polymer Society (G.F.P.) Prize * 1979 Joliot-Curie Fellowship, France * 1977 Rector of Warsaw University Award for the best Ph.D. thesis * 1974 Polish Physical Society Award for the best M. Sc. thesis Dr. Leibler was elected a member of

in 2004 for fundamental theoretical insights into the structure, self-assembly, and properties of polymer-based formulations.Nomination at the National Academy of Sciences
/ref> He is a recipient of the CNRS Silver Medal, France IBM Prize in Material Science, the Polymer Physics prizeAPS polymer prize
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(2006) and the Polymer Chemistry AwardACS polymer prize
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(2007). In 2014, he was awarded EPJE Pierre-Gilles De Gennes Lecture Prize. In January 2015, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has awarded him the annual Descartes-Huygens Prize. In March 2019, Ludwik Leibler received honorary doctoral degree from the division of the Faculty of Sciences of

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.Honorary doctorates of Ghent University
/ref> 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”.2019 European Polymer Federation Prize
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References

1945 births Living people 20th-century Polish physicists Academic staff of ESPCI Paris Members of Academia Europaea Members of the French Academy of Sciences 21st-century French physicists Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research {{Poland-scientist-stub