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Biographical Sketch
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n 1989, Jean Duhamel obtained his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Institut Polytechnique de Lorraine in Nancy, France. The topic of his Ph.D. thesis was the study of the transient effects encountered in the reversible excimer formation of benzanthracene. He then joined the laboratory of Prof. M. A. Winnik at the University of Toronto, Canada as a postdoctoral fellow, where he learned how to apply fluorescence to the study of synthetic macromolecules. In 1993, he started a second postdoctoral appointment at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Prof. P. Lu, where he probed the internal dynamics of DNA and RNA oligonucleotides by fluorescence anisotropy. In 1996, he joined the University of Waterloo, Canada as an assistant professor. There he developed a research program focusing on the characterization of macromolecules in solution using pyrene excimer formation, which is the topic of the corresponding feature article in this issue of Langmuir.
Published: March 19, 2012 © 2012 American Chemical Society
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dx.doi.org/10.1021/la300988a | Langmuir 2012, 28, 6513−6513
