Environmental Pollution and Health Hazards

Adina Anghelescu-Hakala is a Senior Research Scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and has a 26-year extensive expertise in polymer chemistry. She has obtained her PhD in Polymer Chemistry in 2001 from Technical University “Gheorghe Asachi” Iasi, Romania. After completing PhD, she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Helsinki, Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and as a Principal Scientist at “Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Bioactive and Biocompatible Polymers Department, Iasi, Romania. She has received Ecoinvent Award in 2003, Iasi, Romania. She has 53 peer-reviewed publications (28 in journal articles and 25 in conference proceedings), 10 patents, 2 patent applications and 12 invention disclosures. Her main competence areas are natural and synthetic polymers for ecological applications including treatment of waste water and water treatment chemicals, natural and synthetic polymers for biomedical applications, stimuli-responsive nanomaterials, controlled radical polymerization techniques and chemical modifi cation of biopolymers.