Chris Kozak

Dr. Christopher Kozak is a professor of chemistry at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, Canada. He obtained his B.Sc. in Biological Chemistry from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario in 1997. He then moved to The University of British Columbia in Vancouver to obtain his PhD. In 2002 he moved to the UK to perform postdoctoral research at the University of York, followed by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) postdoctoral fellowship at The University of Oxford. In 2004, he moved back to Canada and took up a position as an Assistant Professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. In 2005 he moved to his current position at Memorial University. His research focuses on earth-abundant transition metal-catalyzed polymerization of renewable feedstocks including CO2, cyclic esters, anhydrides and epoxides. In 2020 he and a team of colleagues received funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia to create the Atlantic Canada Environmental and Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering Centre. This funding allowed for a massive investment in the core research instrumentation in the region, transforming the analytical capabilities at Memorial University.