Phil Coates, Professor of Polymer Engineering at the University of Bradford, was invited to give a talk entitled “High Strain Rate in-Process Rheometry of Unfilled and Nano-Filled Polymers” at the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIAC) on July 19, 2011.

Phil Coates is now Professor of Polymer Engineering at the University of Bradford, and Associate Director of the internationally recognized Interdisciplinary Research Centre (IRC) in Polymer Science and Technology. Prof. Coates has published more than 300 papers, in scientific journals and international conferences, and have co-authored 5 books, and edited 11 books. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1995, and has won more than 20 awards in recent years. Prof. Phil Coates’ major research is in-process measurements on polymers, real time computer control, analysis and computer modelling of polymer processing.