Marc A. Hillmyer

Marc Hillmyer is the McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Chemistry at the University of Minnesota. He leads a research group focused on the design, synthesis, characterization, and applications of advanced macromolecular materials. The aim is to establish structure-property relationships and to discover and develop technologically important applications of polymers. Hillmyer uses modern polymer synthesis techniques that include various controlled polymerizations and selective polymer modifications, and these synthetic efforts provide the foundation for most projects. The underlying goal is to not only expand knowledge of fundamental polymer science but also to advance new technologies.

In addition to his teaching and research responsibilities, Hillmyer is currently the editor-in-chief of Macromolecules and the director of the Center for Sustainable Polymers at the University of Minnesota.

He received B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Florida in 1989 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1994. After completing a postdoctoral research position in the University of Minnesota’s Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, he joined the Chemistry faculty at Minnesota in 1997.