Peter Wich
University of New South Wales
Biography
Peter R. Wich is an Associate Professor for Bioorganic and Macromolecular 深夜福利国产精品 in the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney (Australia). He is a member of the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD) and the Australian Centre for Nanomedicine (ACN). Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Mainz (Germany) and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley (USA).
For his research work on bioinspired nanomaterials, Peter has been awarded the Innovation Prize in Medicinal/Pharmaceutical 深夜福利国产精品 and the Galenus Technology Prize. He is a 鈥淵oung Member鈥� of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz (Germany). In 2019, he was named Emerging Investigator of the Journal 鈥淪oft Matter鈥�, and in 2020, he was selected as Polymer 深夜福利国产精品 Emerging Investigator. In 2022, he received the David Sangster Polymer Science and Technology Achievement Award from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI), the highest recognition for a mid-career scientist in Polymer Science in Australia and New Zealand. In 2025, Peter Wich was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship 鈥� a prestigious 4-year fellowship funded by the Australian Research Council to support mid-career researchers with outstanding track records.
Peter leads the UNSW Research Lab for Functional Biopolymers. His primary research interests are in macromolecular chemistry and nanotechnology, focusing on the chemical modification of natural biopolymers to engineer biocompatible materials for applications in drug delivery, nanomedicine, bio-catalysis, and 3D bioprinting. ()
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, RSC Applied Polymers
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