Alumni news

Dr Houck has recently been awarded an ERC award that builds on a series of competitive funding successes, including a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and a EUTOPIA Science and Innovation Fellowship, co-funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie programme. Dr Houck is also recognised as a member of the EUTOPIA Young Leaders Academy, reflecting his growing influence in the European research landscape.

Dr Hannes Houck was an IAS EUTOPIA SIF Fellow 2021 – 2023, affiliated with the department of Chemistry. His research at the University of Warwick is situated at the interface of organic synthesis and polymer chemistry. He focuses on the development of light- and temperature-responsive chemical building blocks that can be incorporated into polymer materials in order to make them more sustainable. He is particularly devising new conceptual approaches to form, break and reform the chemical bonds that make up many of our daily life plastics, thereby aiding their (re)processing and recycling.