Dr. Fréchet is the Henry Rapoport Endowed Chair in Organic Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley. He also serves as head of Materials Synthesis in the Materials Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and as director of the laboratory’s Organic and Macromolecular Facility in The Molecular Foundry. Dr. Fréchet’s research areas include organic synthesis and polymer chemistry applied to nanoscience and nanotechnology with emphasis on the design, fundamental understanding, synthesis and applications of functional macromolecules. He has authored more than 700 scientific papers and holds more than 70 U.S. patents. In addition to a B.S. degree from the Institut de Chimie et Physique Industrielles (CPE), he holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Syracuse University and State University of New York.