Virgil Percec Elected to Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences

Virgil Percec, P. Roy Vagelos Professor of Chemistry, has been appointed a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, the oldest academy of engineering sciences in the world. Foreign members are chosen based on their record of outstanding work for the benefit of society and efforts to build ties within Swedish research and business industries.

Percec’s research interest is at the interface of organic, supramolecular, and macromolecular chemistry; liquid crystals; nanoscience; and biology. He has been recognized through numerous awards internationally, from the Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists to the Polymer Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry in the Netherlands. Percec is the author of hundreds of publications, over 1,000 plenary and endowed lectures, and many patents. He is currently on the editorial board of over a dozen journals and a long-time editor of the Journal of Polymer Science. At Penn since 1999, Percec has also served as a visiting professor at the Universities of Freiburg, Ulm, and at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, and at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences is an independent arena for the exchange of ideas among individuals in industry, academia, business, and public administration. Through lectures, conferences, research exchanges, and other projects, experts from different disciplines and countries come together to generate new knowledge that contributes to the social good.