Prof Iain McCulloch

Iain McCulloch is Professor of Polymer Materials in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London. His research interests are in the design, synthesis and application of conjugated materials for optical and electronic applications. He obtained a PhD in Polymer Chemistry in 1989 at the University of Strathclyde, UK, then joined the research department of Hoechst Celanese Corp., engaged in the research of novel functional polymers for nonlinear optics, lithography and drug delivery. Before joining Imperial, he was a Research Manager at Merck Chemicals, UK from 2000 to 2007, responsible for novel solution processable organic semiconductor materials for application in organic field effect transistors and photovoltaic devices. He has edited one book, is co-inventor on over 50 patents, and co-author of over 120 papers and four book chapters.

 

He is currently the guest editor for organic electronics special editions of Advanced Materials, and has recently been the guest editor for special editions of both the Materials Research Society Bulletin and Journal of Display Technology. He is an associate editor of Materials Science and Engineering Reports and serves on review panels for the UK government, is a Technology Strategy Board Monitoring Officer, is on the scientific advisory committee of several government funded projects and sits on review panels for the TSB and EPSRC. He is a co-founder and Director of Flexink Ltd, a specialty semiconductor materials start-up company and is a founding partner in the technology consultancy, C-Change LLP.

 

As the Research Manager of the Organic Electronics group at Merck Chemicals, he was the technical expert responsible for due diligence during the acquisitions of both the Avecia Electronic Materials group (including Covion) and the Schott Organic Lighting group.