Prof S茅bastien Perrier

Professor of Polymer Chemistry

S.Perrier@warwick.ac.uk
+44 (0)2476 5 28085
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About Me

S茅bastien Perrier is a Professor of Polymer Chemistry, and the Monash-海角社区 Chair in Polymer Chemistry.

S茅bastien holds a joint appointment with the Medical School, in DBS.

Groups at 海角社区

Perrier Group

Affiliations

Chemistry at 海角社区 University
海角社区 Medical School
Monash University

Biography

Professor Sebastien Perrier graduated from the Ecole National Sup猫rieure de Chimie de Montpellier, France, in 1998. He undertook his PhD at the University of 海角社区, in polymer chemistry, and spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He started his academic career at Leeds in 2002 as a lecturer, then moved to the University of Sydney in 2007, as director of the Key Centre for Polymers & Colloids. In October 2013, Sebastien was appointed as the Monash-海角社区 Chair in Polymer Chemistry, a joint appointment between WMS and Chemistry at 海角社区, and the Faculty of Pharmacy at Monash University, Australia. This joint appointment enables Sebastien鈥檚 team to have labs and infrastructure in 海角社区 Chemistry, 海角社区 Medical School and Monash Pharmacy.

Sebastien has published nine book chapters and over 200 articles, which have received over 15,000 citations (h-index 61), and supervised to date 35 PhD students. His recent awards include the Macro Group UK Young Researcher Award (2006), the Rennie Memorial Medal (2009), the RACI Applied Research Award (2012), a Future Fellowship (2012), the Australian Academy of Science Le F猫vre Memorial Prize (2013), the Wolfson Merit Award (Royal Society, 2014), the Biomacromolecules / Macromolecules Young Investigator Award (ACS, 2014) and the IUPAC / Samsung Young Polymer Scientist Award (IUPAC, 2014), the Macro Group UK Medal (2018).

2013-pres	Monash 鈥� 海角社区 Alliance Chair in Polymer Chemistry School of Chemistry, The University of 海角社区, UK Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Australia
2012-13	Professor in Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, Australia
2012-13	ARC Future Fellow
2011-13	Australian Research Council College Expert, Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences (PCE) panel
2007-13	Director of the Key Centre for Polymers & Colloids, University of Sydney, Australia.
2007-12	Associate Professor, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, Australia
2005-07	Senior Lecturer in Polymer Chemistry, Department of Colour and Polymer Chemistry, University of Leeds, UK.
2002-05	Lecturer in Polymer Chemistry, Department of Colour and Polymer Chemistry, University of Leeds, UK.
2001-02	Research Fellow, CAMD, University of New South Wales, Australia.

Current projects

Our group are working on the following projects at the moment:

Fundamental understanding of polymerization mechanisms
Development of synthetic strategies to make functional polymeric architectures
Self-assembly via supramolecular interaction
Engineering of nanostructured materials
Nanomaterials from biomedical applications

Research interests

Our research focuses on the synthesis of macromolecules with highly controlled and pre-determinable structures using modern polymer and organic synthetic methods. We exploit supramolecular interactions to organise these molecules into nanostructured materials, for applications in nanomedicine (e.g. drug delivery, vaccines, antimicrobial materials - our materials are tested in house and in our group at the Monash Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS) in Melbourne, Australia), nanotechnology (e.g. components for optoelectronic applications), materials science (e.g. rheology modifiers) or chemistry (catalysis, processes, etc.).

Publications

For an up to date list of publications, please visit .

Most representative publications:

1. Brendel, JC.; Sanchis, J; Catrouillet, S; Czuba, E; Chen, MZ; Long, BM; Nowell, C; Johnston, A; Jolliffe, KL; Perrier, S, Secondary Self-Assembly of Supramolecular Nanotubes into Tubisomes and Their Activity on Cells, Angewandte Chemie intl. Ed. 2018, DOI:

2. Larnaudie, S.C.; Sanchis, J; Nguyen, T; Peltier, R; Catrouillet, S; Brendel, J.C.; Porter, C.J.H.; Jolliffe, K.A.; Perrier, S Cyclic peptide-poly(HPMA) nanotubes as drug delivery vectors: In vitro assessment, pharmacokinetics and biodistribution Biomaterials, 2018, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2018.03.047

3. Rho, J.Y.; Brendel, J.C.; MacFarlane, L.R.; Mansfield, E.D.H.; Peltier, R.; Rogers, S.; Hartlieb, M.; Perrier, S. Probing the Dynamic Nature of Self-Assembling Cyclic Peptide鈥揚olymer Nanotubes in Solution and in Mammalian Cells, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2017, 1704569 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201704569

4. Gody, G.; Zetterlund, P.B.; Perrier, S.; Harrisson, S. The limits of precision monomer placement in chain growth polymerization, Nat. Commun. 2016, 7, 10514, 10.1038/ncomms10514.

5. Gody, G.; Robert; D.A.; Maschmeyer, T.; Perrier, S. A New Methodology for Assessing Macromolecular Click Reactions and Its Application to Amine鈥揟ertiary Isocyanate Coupling for Polymer Ligation, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b11831. Open Access PMCID# PMC4846186

6. Danial, M.; My-Nhi Tran, C.; Jolliffe, K.A. Perrier, S. Thermal Gating in Lipid Membranes Using Thermoresponsive Cyclic Peptide Polymer Conjugates, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136 (22), 8018-8026.

7. Danial, M.; My-Nhi Tran, C.; Young, P.G.; Perrier, S.; Jolliffe, K.A. Janus cyclic peptide鈥損olymer nanotubes Nat. Commun., 2013, 4:2780 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3780. Highlighted in the scientific press.

8. Gody, G.; Maschmeyer, T.; Zetterlund, P.B.; Perrier, S. Rapid and Quantitative One-Pot Synthesis of Sequence-Controlled Polymers by Radical Polymerization, Nat. Commun., 2013, 4:2505 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3505. Highlighted in Nature Chem, Dec 2013, 5 (12), 990.

9. Semsarilar M.; Perrier, S. 鈥楪reen鈥� Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain-Transfer (RAFT) Polymerization,Nature Chem, 2010, 2, 811-820.

10. Konkolewicz, D.; Gray-Weale, A.; Perrier, S. Hyperbranched Polymers by Thiol-Yne Chemistry, From Small Molecules to Functional Polymers. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131 (50), 18075-18077.

Teaching and supervision

S茅bastien teaches the CH272, CH404 undergraduate module and CH161 Organic Chemistry tutorials, and the CH967 and CH974 MSc modules.

Our group consists of ca. 20 researchers, PhD, Master students, postdoctoral fellows and technicians, across the Department of Chemistry and the 海角社区 Medical School.

We always have projects available from PhD and postdoctoral fellows, if you get in touch I'll see if a member of my team might be able to help.