Cluster PI Eva Blasco was awarded the 2026 Polymer Chemistry Lectureship by the Editorial Board of the journal Polymer Chemistry. The award honors an early-career researcher who has made a significant contribution to the polymer chemistry field. Eva Blasco earned her PhD at the University of Zaragoza and completed a Humboldt post‑doc at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology. She was appointed Junior Professor at Heidelberg University in 2020 and promoted to a W3 Professor at the new Institute for Molecular Systems Engineering and Advanced Materials in 2023. With more than 125 papers and awards such as the Ernst‑Haage, Dr‑Hermann‑Schnell, the Spanish Chemical Society’s Young Investigator Award and the 2024 Advance Science Young Innovator Award, she leads research on sustainable, functional polymers for high‑resolution 3‑D and 4‑D printing. Her latest open‑access work demonstrates light‑based 3‑D printing of a bio‑sourced monomer with tunable depolymerisation, highlighting the potential of nanoscale‑engineered polymer materials.
