Toward Sustainable Thermoplastic Elastomers:

Tapered Block Copolymers with New Terpene-Based

Monomers

Prof. Axel H. E. Müller (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

Tuesday, 2 December 2025, 17:15

Johannes Kepler University Linz, HS 11

Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz, Austria

Short CV:

Axel Müller obtained his Ph.D. from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. From 1999-2012 he was full professor of Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Bayreuth. After retiring from Bayreuth, he moved back to Johannes Gutenberg University as a Fellow of the Gutenberg Research College. His research interest focuses on the kinetics and mechanisms of controlled/living polymerizations, the design of complex polymer and hybrid structures and self-organized nanostructures obtained from these polymers in bulk and solution. He has published about 440 peer-reviewed research papers and reviews, 21 patents, and he edited seven books. His papers have been cited 36 000 times. He was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Polymer until 2019. Recent awards include the Hermann Staudinger Prize of the German Chemical Society (2012) and the International Award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (SPSJ, 2018).