The Polymer Networks Group 2022 Workshop is on its way!

We are starting to work for the next edition of the Polymer Networks Group Workshop. It will be held in June 12^th-16^th 2022 in Rome, after four years from the Prague’s edition and the unfortunate cancellation of the 2020 edition due to the pandemic emergency. In this period the activities in the laboratories around the world have not stopped and in Rome, we expect a lot of enthusiastic people willing to report and discuss after such long, forced stop from meeting each other.

In addition, the 2022 PNG workshop site will be in the Eternal City, the town that has resisted and accompanied any kind of historical events, for more than 2000 years. Because of this, we think that Rome will be the perfect scenario for the re-establishment of our community meetings.

We will be sending periodic announcements and information materials as the event gets closer.

We hope to see you all back together in Rome in 2022 in the historical University of Rome “Sapienza”, at walking distance from “Termini”, the main railroad station in Rome and airport terminal, in a central zone of the town where you can find a huge number of hotels for your needs (a list of hotels will be provided in due time on our Official Website).

Check already on your agenda these days!
We look forward to meeting you in Rome!

Gaio Paradossi, Chair

Meet Gaio Paradossi, Chair of PNG 2022

Gaio Paradossi graduated at University of Rome Sapienza. After post doctoral positions at Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, IL, University of California Irvine, CA, USA and CERMAV, University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, FR, in 1984 he was appointed as Researcher at the Department of Chemistry, University of Naples, and tenured in 1987. In 1990 he moved to the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he became Associate Professor in 1999 and Full Professor of Physical Chemistry 2017. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Kyoto, Japan in 1999. Since 2017, he is Full Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He participated to five European Projects from the framework program FP6 to Horizon 2020, working on the formulation and the use of polymer based theranostic micro and nano devices and “smart” dosimeters for radiotherapy. He is author of more than 170 papers published in peer reviewed, high impact, international journals. Presently he is Head of the PhD School in Chemical Sciences of the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
His main scientific interests are: Multimodal imaging and drug delivery injectable microdevices, volume phase transition in polymer microgels, soft matter, Dynamic processes in hydrogels, Biomaterials.