Professor Paul D. Topham is the Co-Director of Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence (AIME) at Aston University (Birmingham, UK) and a Guest Professor at the South China University of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou, China. He is the Secretary of the IUPAC Polymer Division, a Chartered Chemist (CChem), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). He joined the Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry subject group at Aston in August 2008 as a Lecturer in Chemistry, became a Senior Lecturer in August 2012, a Reader in Polymer Chemistry in August 2013 and a Full Professor in August 2017. He received a PhD in Polymer Science from the University of Sheffield in 2006. He has been awarded the prestigious position of representing Hydrogen in the Periodic Table of Younger Chemists for the celebration of IUPAC100 and IYPT in 2019 and was the MacroGroup UK Young Researchers Medal 2014 recipient. He was also a member of the Soft Matter Panel for the UK's synchrotron radiation facility, the Diamond Light Source.
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Professor Paul D. Topham is the Co-Director of Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence (AIME) at Aston University (Birmingham, UK) and a Guest Professor at the South China University of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou, China. He is the Secretary of the IUPAC Polymer Division, a Chartered Chemist (CChem), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). He joined the Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry subject group at Aston in August 2008 as a Lecturer in Chemistry, became a Senior Lecturer in August 2012, a Reader in Polymer Chemistry in August 2013 and a Full Professor in August 2017. He received a PhD in Polymer Science from the University of Sheffield in 2006. He has been awarded the prestigious position of representing Hydrogen in the Periodic Table of Younger Chemists for the celebration of IUPAC100 and IYPT in 2019 and was the MacroGroup UK Young Researchers Medal 2014 recipient. He was also a member of the Soft Matter Panel for the UK's synchrotron radiation facility, the Diamond Light Source.
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