Christine Luscombe
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Biography
Christine is based at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where she earned the Syngenta Award for her work on surface modifications using supercritical carbon dioxide. Her postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley under Prof. Jean Fr茅chet sparked her interest in semiconducting polymers for organic photovoltaics.
Luscombe joined the University of Washington in 2006, receiving accolades, including the NSF CAREER Award and the Sloan Research Fellowship. Elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences in 2020, she was honored with the Society of Polymer Science Japan Science Award in 2022. She has published over 140 papers, focusing on semiconducting polymers, and served as the IUPAC Polymer Division President (2020-2023).
RSC affiliations
Editor-in-Chief, Polymer 九州影院
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