Profile
Stefan Bon
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About Me:
Originally from the Netherlands, I live with my husband ,who is from China, in Coventry. I am a first generation professor in polymer and colloid chemical engineering in the day. In our free time we enjoy weekend trips, cooking, gardening, and watching fantasy/sci-fi. 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 🇳🇱🇨🇳
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🏳️🌈LGBTQ+ STEM🏳️🌈: https://lgbtstem.wordpress.com/2019/07/15/an-interview-with-stefan-bon/
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My pronouns are:
he/him
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My Work:
My work is a combi of scientific research with my amazing team Bonlab (https://bonlab.info), where we collaborate with a range of industries, and teaching polymer and colloid science from a chemical engineering perspective. 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 🇳🇱🇨🇳
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I teach on both undergraduate and postgraduate level modules in polymer chemistry and physics and colloid science. In our research team, Bonlab, environmental sustainability sits at the heart of a chemical engineering approach to innovate in polymer and colloid science.
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My Typical Day:
Wake up around 6:00, walk the dog for 45 min-1 hour, have breakfast (yoghurt, a nice sandwich) and then get to university campus, arriving around 830. Upon arrival load up on decaf coffee and check up on the BonLab team what the latest scientific discoveries are. Throughout the day, have meetings with industry about our science, do teaching, read and learn more science. Later in the afternoon 1600-1800 have discussions and planning with the team. Home around 1800-1900.
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What I'd do with the prize money:
I would spend the £500 on transport arrangements for schools to visit one of our science activities on campus or a trip to one of our industrial partners.
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Education:
1983-1989 Cobbenhagen College (Tilburg, The Netherlands, VWO)
1989-1993 Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) to study Chemical Engineering (BSc+MSc: ir.).
1993-1998 Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands) to work as a PhD researcher in polymer and colloid science (PhD: dr. ir.).
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Work History:
During my undergraduate studies I did an IAESTE internship at Nippon Paint in Osaka (Japan, 1992) After my PhD, I became a postdoctoral research at Warwick University (UK) for 2.5 years in the area of polymer chemistry. From January 2001 I was the Unilever lecturer in Polymer Science at Warwick University. In 2014, I became full professor in Polymer and Colloid Chemical Engineering at Warwick University.
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Employer:
The University of Warwick (Coventry, UK)
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My Interview
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How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
Small plastics enthusiast
What did you want to be after you left school?
a 1980s geeky computer scientist
Were you ever in trouble at school?
No, i was quiet and shy in school (not anymore haha)
If you weren't doing this job, what would you choose instead?
Something creative with people
Who is your favourite singer or band?
Julio Iglesias (Yep, he was BIG in the 1970-1990s in Europe)
What's your favourite food?
Chinese
If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!
That everyday would be a happy and eventful day, that our research would contribute to a cleaner and fairer world, that people would celebrate diversity.
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