Dr Robert Chapman is a Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Newcastle. His research group works on the use of high throughput polymerisation techniques to design polymer therapeutics, to control the folding of polymers into protein-like mimics, and to design polymers that will bind to proteins, enzymes and antibodies. He has expertise in a broad range of polymer chemistry, peptide driven self assembly, drug delivery, tissue engineering and in nanoparticle based biosensing.
Robert completed a BEng in Industrial Chemistry (2002-07, Hons I) at UNSW, a PhD in Chemistry (2009-12) at the University of Sydney, and a postdoc (2013-15) at Imperial College London under Prof Molly Stevens. He began his independent group at UNSW as a Vice-Chancellors Research Fellow (2016) and DECRA fellow (2017-20), before moving to the University of Newcastle in 2020. He is affiliate of the Hunter Medical Research Insititute and member of their Precision Medicine Program, and has served on the NSW and national RACI poylmer groups since 2019.
