Jean-Francois Feller has been a professor of the Physical Chemistry of Polymers at the University of South Brittany (UBS), Lorient, France, since 2004, and is currently the head of the Smart Plastics Group. After his PhD (1995) at the University Claude Bernard of Lyon on the synthesis and characterization of coupling agents to control and tailor the glass fiber--poly(propylene) interphase in thermoplastic composites, he completed a post-doc at IN2P3, Lyon, which focused on the analysis of polymer coupling agents onto glass surfaces using particle-induced desorption mass spectroscopy (PDMS). In 1996, he obtained an assistant professor position at the University of South Brittany, where he studied several research topics related to the development of smart plastics for self-regulating heating, temperature, strain and vapor sensing. More recently, he has investigated the influence of nano- and micro-particles on the mechanical, rheological, thermal, diffusion and electrical properties of polymer nanocomposites and the possibility of minimizing the environmental footprint of plastics using recycled or bio polymers. He is now particularly focused on the development of e-noses for VOC detection in packaging and disease diagnostics and on sensing skins for the health monitoring of composites. He recently co-founded a startup to industrialize quantum resistive strain sensors that can be integrated into the core of structural composites to monitor their deformation and damage.
Jean-Francois Feller has been a professor of the Physical Chemistry of Polymers at the University of South Brittany (UBS), Lorient, France, since 2004, and is currently the head of the Smart Plastics Group. After his PhD (1995) at the University Claude Bernard of Lyon on the synthesis and characterization of coupling agents to control and tailor the glass fiber--poly(propylene) interphase in thermoplastic composites, he completed a post-doc at IN2P3, Lyon, which focused on the analysis of polymer coupling agents onto glass surfaces using particle-induced desorption mass spectroscopy (PDMS). In 1996, he obtained an assistant professor position at the University of South Brittany, where he studied several research topics related to the development of smart plastics for self-regulating heating, temperature, strain and vapor sensing. More recently, he has investigated the influence of nano- and micro-particles on the mechanical, rheological, thermal, diffusion and electrical properties of polymer nanocomposites and the possibility of minimizing the environmental footprint of plastics using recycled or bio polymers. He is now particularly focused on the development of e-noses for VOC detection in packaging and disease diagnostics and on sensing skins for the health monitoring of composites. He recently co-founded a startup to industrialize quantum resistive strain sensors that can be integrated into the core of structural composites to monitor their deformation and damage.