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.