The American Chemical Society Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) has selected a new class of PMSE Fellows for 2025. The following distinguished PMSE members have been chosen:
Professor Richard Hoogenboom
Ghent University

For outstanding contributions to the development and use of computational approaches to advance the fundamental understanding of complex synthetic and biologically relevant macromolecular materials.
Professor Richard Hoogenboom joined Ghent University in 2010 where he founded the Supramolecular Chemistry Group that focuses on development of poly(2-oxazoline)s as biomaterials, dynamic supramolecular materials, and responsive polymers. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2005 from Eindhoven University of Technology under the supervision of Professor Ulrich S. Schubert and performed postdoctoral research with Professor Martin Möller (RWTH Aachen) and Professor Roeland Nolte (Radboud University Nijmegen). During his career, Professor Hoogenboom published more than 550 scientific articles that received more than 30,000 citations, and he holds 25 patent families. He is editor-in-chief of European Polymer Journal since 2019 and received several awards, including the RSC Polymer Chemistry Award (2015), the Polymer International IUPAC Young investigator Award (2016), the ACS Macromolecules/Biomacromolecules Young Investigator Award (2017), the ACS Carl S. Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award (2021) and the ACS POLY Fellows Award (2022). Professor Hoogenboom is also co-founder of Avroxa BV that commercializes poly(2-oxazoline)s as Ultroxa® and polyalkyleneimines as UltraPEI. The poly(2-oxazoline) chemistry he developed is at the basis of the first approved poly(2-oxazoline) based medical product, namely the EthiziaTM hemostatic patch.
Professor Arthi Jayaraman
University of Delaware

For creative development and use of computational approaches to advance the fundamental understanding of complex synthetic and biologically relevant macromolecular materials
Arthi Jayaraman is currently a tenured full professor in the Departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Delaware (UD), Newark. She is also the director for an NSF-funded NRT graduate traineeship program on ‘Computing and Data Science Training for Materials Innovation, Discovery, and Analytics’. She currently serves as associate editor for American Chemical Society’s journal Macromolecules and also served as the inaugural deputy editor for ACS Polymers Au for its first three years. Jayaraman received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University and conducted her postdoctoral research in Materials Science and Engineering at University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. After holding the position of Patten Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder from 2008-2014, she joined the faculty at UD in 2014. Her research expertise is in the development and use of physics- & chemistry-based as well as data-driven computational techniques to study macromolecular materials. In the past her research and teaching have been recognized with awards/fellowships including UD College of Engineering Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching (2023), AIChE COMSEF Impact Award (2021), American Physical Society (APS) Fellowship (2020), ACS PMSE Young Investigator (2014), AIChE COMSEF Division Young Investigator Award (2013), CU Provost Faculty Achievement Award (2013), Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research Award (2010), and CU Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering’s outstanding undergraduate teaching award (2011) and graduate teaching award (2014).
Dr. Abhishek Roy
National Renewable Energy Laboratory

For outstanding contributions to developing generations of polyamide chemistries resulting in commercialization of a significant portion of today’s reverse osmosis membranes
Dr. Abhishek Roy is a scientist and an innovator with deep expertise in applying polymer and separation science fundamentals to address water purification and energy efficiency challenges with over 23 years in academic, industry, and national labs. He is globally recognized for his industrial contributions at Dow Water Process Solutions, where, over ten years, he contributed to inventing and commercializing a significant portion of today’s commercial reverse osmosis membranes. He was awarded one of the highest recognitions from the Society of Chemical Industry (Gordon E Moore Medal, 2016) and the presidential Dow Sustainability Innovator award for developing a new generation of polyamide membrane chemistry that lowered brackish water desalination’s energy consumption by 30%. Over the last ten years, the invention introduced several new products in the industrial, residential, municipal, and industrial re-use market segments, addressing sustainability and energy efficiency for water purification. In 2017, he became the technical lead for the chemical process separation efforts at Dow Hydrocarbons, where his contributions led to the invention of next-generation carbon molecular sieve membranes to reduce energy consumption in chemical separation processes. He is a Chief Scientist at NREL, responsible for developing a separation science program for industrial energy efficiency, water purification, and recovering critical minerals from unconventional sources. Over the last 3 years, he succeeded in developing a multi-million-dollar portfolio for enabling translational membrane research at a National Lab for various membrane-driven applications.
He is a co-inventor of more than 200 global patents and applications and has published 40 peer-reviewed articles, including a cover page in Science and a special feature in PNAS. He was awarded the PMSE Cooperative Research Award two times in his career to drive collaborations between industry, academia, and national labs. He was recognized by the National Academy of Science, Medicine, and Engineering as one of the top 18 outstanding young professionals and inducted into the New Voices program (2018) to drive meaningful dialogues on how science, engineering, and medicine are shaping the global future. He is one of the Board of Directors for the North American Membrane Society, and a topic area lead for DOE’s water hub (NAWI).