Author: Jean-Pierre Pascault

Professor Jean-Pierre Pascault is Emeritus from 2005 at National Institute of Applied Science (INSA) Lyon France. He was Professor in the same Institute from 1983 to October 2005; Director of the Laboratory of Macromolecular Materials (Associated to CNRS) from 1982 to 1998; Director of a CNRS Polymer Network Group (FR CNRS) from 2000 up to 2006; President of the French Polymer Group, GFP, and of the Polymer Division of the French Chemical Society, SFC from 2001 to 2004. He has authored over 300 scientific publications including several book chapters and one book and 32 patents. Professor Roberto J. J. Williams is Head of the Polymer Division of the Institute of Materials Science and Technology (INTEMA), depending on the University of Mar del Plata and the National Research Council (CONICET), Argentina. He has authored over 200 scientific publications including several book chapters and two books (Thermosetting Polymers; Diffusion in Gases and Porous Media). His main contributions have been in the fields of thermosetting polymers and organic-inorganic hybrid materials. He has received several scientific awards and is a member of the National Academies of Engineering and Exact Sciences.