The “Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry

Research excellence
The “Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry (PPIMC), Iasi, Romania is an Institute of Excellence
of the Romanian Academy. Established in February 1949, PPIMC has a sixty years long tradition in
fundamental and applied research in polymer chemistry and physics, polymer materials, organic and
inorganic chemistry.
Located in Copou Hills and extended on an area of ten thousand square meters (laboratories of synthesis
and physico–chemical analysis, conference hall, library, production units, mechanical and electrical
workrooms), with a research team whose achievements (papers, patents, participation at national and
international meetings, technologies elaborated and implemented in industry) are recognized in Romania
and abroad, the Institute is for many years in the first line of the Romanian research and covers practically
the whole area of macromolecular compounds science and technology, as well as of polymeric materials.
Its leading research position is internationally recognized – the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI),
Philadelphia, USA, lists the Institute among the “main Romanian actors on the international scientific scene”
– in fact, PPIMC holds the first position as a research institute in Romania in the ISI classification.
PPICM coordinates numerous national and international projects and was appointed by the Romanian
Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sports as a Regional contact point for FP6/FP7 and ERA-
MORE.
In 2011, PPIMC organized/will organize several events dedicated to The International Year of Chemistry:
• Romania – Republic of Moldova Bilateral Conference – “Chemistry – our life, our future” (Chisinau,
Republic of Moldova, May 5)
• Dynamics of Complex Fluids Conference (Iasi, May 5–6) (Sponsors: European Social Fund –
“Cristofor I. Simionescu” Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, SRR – Romanian Society of Rheology,
PPIMC and SChR – Romanian Chemical Society)
• The 10 th International Conference on Colloids and Surface Chemistry, (Galati, June 9–11) (co-
organizer, PPIMC)
• Fourth Cristofor I. Simionescu Symposium “Frontiers in Macromolecular and Supramolecular
Science” (Bucuresti, May 30; & Iasi, June 1–2)
Featuring: Mihai Barboiu (IEM Montpellier, France), Luminita Ghimici (PPIMC Iasi, Romania), David M.
Haddleton (Warwick University, UK), Michael L. Klein (Temple University, Philadelphia, US), Egbert W.
Meijer (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands), Raffaele Mezzenga (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland),
Martin Möller (RWTH, Aachen, Germany), Marieta Nichifor (PPIMC Iasi, Romania), Roeland J.M. Nolte
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(University Nijmegen, Netherlands), Virgil Percec (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US), Hans-
Werner Schmidt (University of Bayreuth, Germany), Cristian S. Silvestru (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-
Napoca, Romania), Sir J. Fraser Stoddart (Northwestern University, US)
• Summer School “Trends in the synthesis and characterization of advanced materials for biological
and medical applications” (European Social Fund – “Cristofor I. Simionescu” Postdoctoral Fellowship
Program and PPIMC) (Timisoara, July 25–30)
• X th France-Romania Polymer Symposium (Douai, France, September 6–7) (Ecole des Mines de
Douai and PPIMC)
• Iasi Academic Days – Progress in organic and macromolecular science Symposium (Iasi,
September 29 – October 1) (PPIMC and SChR – Romanian Chemical Society)
• PPIMC Open day (Iasi, October 1)
Prof. Dr. Bogdan Simionescu
Member of Romanian Academy
President of Iasi branch of Romanian Chemical Society
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