Jean Pierre Ibar

Prof. Dr. J.P. Ibar, educated at ENSCP and MIT, has spent his entire career studying, characterizing

and processing the amorphous state of matter, both at an academic level (Professor of the Universities)

and through 3 start-ups that he co-founded and directed as Director of Research. He is the

recipient of numerous awards (Chaudron’s medal, Fulbright, Sigma-Xi Society (MIT Chapter), Marie-

Curie, Ikerbasque Fellowship etc.), has been granted over 300 patents worldwide (35 seminal ones)

and has authored more than 15 hundred peer-reviewed papers and 3 books. He has lectured as a

keynote speaker at numerous international conferences (APS, ACS, ANTEC, Gordon Conferences, ICR,

SOR, SER, PPS, Cambridge University, Russian Academy of Science, Sichuan University, etc.). He is

currently writing a series of books on the Duality and Cross-Duality of the interactions in polymer

science and engineering, and, more generally, to describe the physics of dissipative systems.