Evelyne van Ruymbeke - Member at Large

Since 2012, Prof. Evelyne van Ruymbeke is Senior Research Associate of the FNRS and Professor at UCL working at the Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences, after two years as scientist in the Polymer Rheology and Processing Research department at DSM (Geleen, The Netherlands), and a three years postdoctoral stay with Prof. Dimitris Vlassopoulos at the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (Heraklion, Greece).

The overall objective of her research is to understand and model at the mesoscopic level the relationship between the composition of polymeric samples and their rheological behavior. Her interests include the study of the properties of supramolecular polymer networks and the study of the nonlinear viscoelastic properties of polymer melts and solutions under shear or elongation.

She is presently coordinator of the European MSCA doctoral Network ‘ReBond’, which aims at using vitrimers for enhancing the properties of plastic waste.

In 2011 and in 2018, she received the Journal of Rheology Publication Award of the Society of Rheology, and in 2016, she received the Arthur B. Metzner Early Career Award of the Society of Rheology. She is presently member at large of the Society of Rheology and Associated Editor of Macromolecules.