Matyjaszewski began studying chemistry atLodz University of Technology in late 1960s and later graduated from the Petrochemical University in Moscow.[9] He received his doctorate from the Center of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies of thePolish Academy of Sciences in 1976 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at theUniversity of Florida in 1977. From 1978 to 1984, he was a research associate of thePolish Academy of Sciences. From 1984 to 1985, Matyjaszewski held appointments at theUniversity of Paris, first as a research associate and then as a visiting professor.[2] In 1985, he joined the chemistry department atCarnegie Mellon University. He founded and currently directs the university's Center for Macromolecular Engineering.[10] This center is funded both by an active consortium and government agencies, including theNational Science Foundation. In 1998, Matyjaszewski was appointed the J.C. Warner Professor of Natural Sciences. In 2004 he was named a university professor, the highest distinction faculty can achieve at Carnegie Mellon.[11] Matyjaszewski is also an adjunct professor in Carnegie Mellon's department of materials science and chemical engineering.[12]
From 1994 to 1998, Matyjaszewski served as head of the department of chemistry at Carnegie Mellon and assisted in recruiting additional faculty with strengths in polymer chemistry. At the same time, he formed a research consortium with various industrial corporations to expand the understanding of controlled radical polymerization, including ATRP, and accelerate the transfer of this technology to different commercial applications. A second consortium, the CRP Consortium, formed under his leadership in 2001, continues and expands these efforts, training university and industrial scientists in procedures for responsive polymeric material development[13] and has comprised 60 industrial members.[14] The same year, Matyjaszewski became an adjunct professor atPolish Academy of Sciences and at the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering of theUniversity of Pittsburgh.[2]
Matyjaszewski is a co-inventor on 72 issued U.S. patented technologies and holds over 150 international patents.[11]
One of the leading educators in the field of polymer chemistry, Matyjaszewski has mentored more than 300 undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students since joining Carnegie Mellon. He has co-authored 25 books, 100 book chapters and more than 1300 peer-reviewed scientific papers. According to Google Scholar, his work has been cited in the scientific literature more than 203,000 times, with an h-index of 214,[15] making him one of the most citedchemists in the world.[1][2][16][14]
Matyjaszewski has received numerous awards for his work, including the 2023 National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences, 2020 Grand Prix de la Fondation de laMaison de la Chimie, France,[7] 2017Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry,[17] 2017 Medema Lecture Award,[18] 2015Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences,[19] 2014 National Institute of Materials Science (Japan) Award,[17] 2012Dannie Heineman Prize from theGöttingen Academy of Sciences, 2011Wolf Prize in Chemistry and the 2009Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. He has been honored by theAmerican Chemical Society (ACS) with the 2002 Polymer Chemistry Award,[20] 2011 Applied Polymer Science Award,[21] 2011 Herman Mark Award,[22] 2015 Charles G. Overberger Prize,[23] 2019 Chemistry of Materials Award,[24] 2020 Paul Flory Polymer Education Award[25] and 2020 Nichols Medal.[26] He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Inventors, as well as a member of the Polish, Australian and European Academies of Sciences.[27] He also is an honorary member of the Israeli and Chinese Chemical Societies.[28][29]
^Wang, Jin-Shan; Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof (May 1995). "Controlled/"living" radical polymerization. Atom transfer radical polymerization in the presence of transition-metal complexes".Journal of the American Chemical Society.117 (20):5614–5615.Bibcode:1995JAChS.117.5614W.doi:10.1021/ja00125a035.
^"PTN Medema Lecture Award".PTN Dutch National Graduate School of Polymer Science and Technology. Archived fromthe original on October 4, 2017. RetrievedOctober 3, 2017.
