Prof. Alex Adronov is a professor of chemistry at McMaster University. He received his BSc from McMaster University in 1996 and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001. He began his independent career as an Assistant Professor at McMaster University in 2001 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007, and Professor in 2013. He is currently the director of the Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research. His research interests include polymer synthesis, carbon nanotube functionalization, and polymer therapeutics.