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Haritz has been an Associate Professor at the University of the Basque Country since 2021 and Group leader at POLYMAT. He graduated from the University of the Basque Country in 2011 with honours before joining the group of Dr Hedrick at IBM Almaden Research Centre as a Postdoc in 2012, where he spent two years.

In 2014 he returned to Spain with a Spanish Ministry grant and joined POLYMAT as a group leader. He has participated in 145 peer-reviewed publications, with more than seventy as the corresponding author. The impact of his work can be measured by the increasing number of citations, near 2000 in 2023. He has been awarded with several awards including the ACS Macomolecules Young Investigator Award, Excellence of Young Researcher in 浪花直播 Award by the Spanish Royal Society (2021) and the Excellence of Young Researcher in Polymers Award by the Grupo Espa帽ol de Pol铆meros (2020).

His research aims to prepare new functional polymeric materials using sustainable polymerization processes. Specifically, his investigations involve the use of green polymerization processes such as monomers from plastic recycling, reagents from renewable sources or the use of less hazardous organocatalysts.

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