Doctor of Science honoris causa, Ivane Javahisvili University, Tbilisi, June 29, 2015 Dr. honoris causa in Chemistry, Lvivska Politechnika National University, 1999 Doctor of Science in Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw Doctor of Science in Physics, University of Warsaw Master of Science in Chemistry, University of Warsaw
Polymer and Composite systems
Materials Science Education
Biomaterials
Drag reduction and flocculation
Long term prediction of service performance of polymer-based materials (PBMs)
Materials modification via irradiation and/or magnetic fields
Materials recycling
Mechanical and tribological properties
Molecular dynamics computer simulations of mechanics and tribology
Phase structures
Polymer liquid crystals
Honorary Member of the Society of Plastics and Rubber Engineers, Zagreb – elected
March 27, 2007
Paul J. Flory Polymer Research Award (with Koichi Hatada), April 21, 2006, Nara, Japan
Doctor of Science honoris causa, University of Lucknow - awarded February 6, 2006
Visiting Professor of Physics, University of Rouen, Springs in 2003, 2004 and 2005
Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry - elected April 2004
Honorary Member of the Chemical Society of Georgia, Tbilisi - elected April 2003
Member of the European Academy of Sciences, Brussels - elected October 2002
Keynote Speaker on Polymer Performance at the 62nd Annual Technical Conference of
the Society of Plastics Engineers (ANTEC-SPE), San Francisco, May 2002
Visiting Professor of Polymer Engineering, Royal Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok,
2001
President, Scientific Committee of POLYCHAR World Forum on Advanced Materials (53 countries represented), 2000-
Doctor honoris causa in Chemistry, Lvivska Politechnika National University, Lviv, September 14, 1999 (the second honorary doctorate since World War II in the University
founded in 1844; their first ever Dr. h.c. degree was awarded in 1912 to Marie Curie)
Visiting Professor of Polymer Engineering, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm,
summers in 1992, 1994 and 1999
International Council on Materials Education: President 1999–
Visiting Professor of Physics, Argentinian National University at San Luis, Fall 1998
U.S. Navy Distinguished Visiting Professor, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Summer 1988
Fred A. Schwab International Award of the Society of Plastics Engineers, 1997 (one
of 6 annual prizes for 38 000 members)
Corresponding Member, Union for Polymer Research, Berlin - elected 1994
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London
Full Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Mexico City.
University of North Texas 
