Conference Chair            Rudolf Hufenus, Empa, Switzerland

Conference Co-Chair      Edith Perret, Empa, Switzerland

Secretariat                        Brigitte Jungnickel, Empa, Switzerland

Organization                    Polymer Processing Society

                                           Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

                                           Olma Messen St. Gallen, Switzerland

                                           St.Gallen-Bodensee Tourismus, Switzerland

General Symposia           Injection molding and molds

                                           Frank Ehrig, University of Applied Science Eastern Switzerland, Switzerland

                                           Roberto Pantani, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy

                                           Albert Van Bael, KU Leuven, Belgium

                                           Krzysztof Wilczyński, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

                                           Hiroshi Ito, Yamagata University, Japan

                                           John Vlachopoulos, McMaster University, Canada

                                           Andrew N. Hrymak, Western University, Canada

                                           Rubber and elastomers

                                           Robert Eberlein, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

                                           Phan Trung Nghia, Hanoi University of Science & Technology, Vietnam

                                           Young Wook Chang, Hanyang University, South Korea

                                           Sadhan C. Jana, University of Akron, USA

                                           Li Jia, The University of Akron, USA
 

                                           Fibers and films

                                           Sorin Fabien, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland

                                           Michael Buchmeiser, University of Stuttgart, Germany

                                           Sanjay Rastogi, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

                                           Takeshi Kikutani, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

                                           Yurong Yan, South China University of Technology, China

                                           Xungai Wang, Deakin University, Australia

                                           Abdellah Ajji, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
 

Foams and membranes

Volker Altstaedt, University of Bayreuth, Germany

José Ignacio Velasco, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Ernesto Di Maio, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy

Shu-Kai Yeh, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Luiz A. Pessan, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil

Chul B. Park, University of Toronto, Canada

Benjamin Hsiao, Stony Brook University, USA
 

Polymer composites

Paolo Ermanni, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Frank Clemens, Empa, Switzerland

Samuel Kenig, Shenkar College of Engineering & Design, Israel

Tim A. Osswald, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
 

Mixing and compounding

Daniel Schwendemann, University of Applied Science Eastern Switzerland, Switzerland

Christian Hopmann, RWTH Aachen, Germany

Bruno Vergnes, MINES ParisTech, France

Wie Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
 

Morphology and structural development

Edith Perret, Empa, Switzerland

Peter Van Puyvelde, KU Leuven, Belgium

Masayuki Yamaguchi, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Uttandaraman Sundararaj, The University of Calgary, Canada

Frej Mighri, Université Laval, Canada
 

Polymer blends and alloys

Clemens Holzer, Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria

Abderrahim Maazouz, INSA de Lyon, France

Johan Verbeek, University of Auckland, New Zeland

João Maia, Case Western Reserve University, USA
 

Nanotechnology

Per Magnus Kristiansen, University of Applied Sciences & Arts FHNW, Switzerland

Pötschke Petra, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden, Germany

José A. Covas, University of Minho, Portugal

Phil Coates, University of Bradford, UK

Satinath Bhattacharya, RMIT University Melbourne, Australia

Hathaikarn Manuspiya, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Mukerrem Cakmak, Purdue University, USA

Luyi Sun, University of Connecticut, USA
 

Polymerization and synthesis

Frank Nüsch, Empa, Switzerland

Dorina Opris, Empa, Switzerland

Tony McNally, University of Warwick, UK

José M. Kenny, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy

Yusuf Menceloglu, Sabanci University, Turkey
 

Modeling and simulation

Ali Gooneie, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Jean-François Agassant, MINES ParisTech, France

Evan Mitsoulis, National Technical University Athens, Greece

Patrick D. Anderson, Eindhoven University of Technology , The Netherlands

Toshihisa Kajiwara, Kyushu University, Japan

Fardin Khabaz, University of Akron, USA
 

Polymer recycling

Rudolf Koopmans, Hochschule für Technik & Architektur Freiburg, Switzerland

Kim Ragaert, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Valérie Massardier-Nageotte, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France

Juan F. Rodriguez, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Hani E. Naguib, University of Toronto, Canada
 

Functional additives and reactive processing

Sabyasachi Gaan, Empa, Switzerland

José-Marie Lopez-Cuesta, Centre des Matériaux des Mines d'Alès, France

Suprakas Sinha Ray, DST/CSIR Nanostructured Materials, South Africa

Costas Tzoganakis, University of Waterloo, Canada

Marianna Kontopoulou, Queen's University, Canada
 

Rheology and characterization

Jan Vermant, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Paula Moldenaers, KU Leuven, Belgium

Nino Grizzuti, University of Naples, Italy

Kyung Hyun Ahn, Seoul National University, Korea

Krishnamurthy Jayaraman, Michigan State University, USA
 

Biopolymers

Manfred Zinn, HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland

Miroslawa El Fray, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland

Jean-Marie Raquez, University of Mons, Belgium

Joung Sook Hong, Seoul National University, Korea

Jorge Alberto Medina, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Special symposia           Additive manufacturing

Manfred Schmid, Inspire AG, Switzerland

Dietmar Drummer, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Hesheng Xia, Sichuan University, China
 

Medical applications

René Rossi, Empa, Switerland

Carsten Werner, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden, Germany

Luc Avérous, University of Strasbourg, France

Shih-Jung Liu, Chang Gung University, Taiwan

Masami Okamoto, Toyota Technological Institute, Japan

Lih-Sheng Turng, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
 

Polymers at surfaces and interfaces

Manfred Heuberger, Empa, Switzerland

Pierre Jousset, University of Applied Science Eastern Switzerland, Switzerland
 

Microplastics

Bernd Nowack, Empa, Switzerland

Denise Mitrano, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Nathalie Tufenkji, McGill University, Canada
 

Plasma polymer treatment

Dirk Hegemann, Empa, Switzerland

Sonja Neuhaus, University of Applied Sciences & Arts FHNW, Switzerland

Rainer Dahlmann, RWTH Aachen, Germany