Michael Londesborough at Athens Science Festival 2022

Michael Londesborough, researcher at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), accepted the invitation of the Czech Centre Athens and comes to Athens Science Festival and provides us with a talk especially designed for the festival, an exciting and humorous overview of plastic polymer chemistry – its beginnings, and its current trends – with a number of demonstrations/experiments.

More information about Michael Londesborough:
He is a researcher at CAS and award-winning science communicator and broadcaster. Previously, he was a consultant for Semequip Inc., an ion implantation material development company. In 2015, he published the invention of the first boron hydride laser. He collaborates on science popularization projects with the British Council and Czech Television. He is chairman of his CAS Institute’s Council, author of 60 professional publications, co-author of two books about boron hydride chemistry and their application in modern technologies, and the co-owner of one international patent. He is a multiple winner of the Best Young Chemist competition, winner of the Cryptur award, and laureate of the Vojtěch Náprstek Medal for his contribution to science popularization. Michael has a doctorate from the British University of Leeds.