André Alexis (UCLouvain) : Investigation about the role of the environment on the chain stretching in polymeric blends

Hannecart Céline (UCLouvain): New approach for predicting transient strain-hardening of linear polymer melts in non-linear extensional flow

Hart James (Durham University): Flow induced instabilities near the two phase boundary 

Hinton Zachary (Drexel University, USA) : Associating Polymers in Extensional Flows: Processing to Performance to Self-Healing

Co-author : Nicolas J. Alvarez

Kibbelaar Heleen (University of Amsterdam): Capillary instabilities in a pH responsive soft solid 

Parisi Daniele (FORTH, Heraklion) : Stress Relaxation in Ring-Linear Polymer Blends

Co-authors: M. Rubinstein and D. Vlassopoulos

Rehor Martin (University of Luxembourg) : Incorporation of slip in numerical simulation of extrusion ow of SBR compounds

Co-authors: Alex Gansen, Patrycja Polinska, Clemens Sill, Stephan Westermann, Jean Dheur, Jorg Baller, Jack S. Hale

Sato Takeshi (Kyoto University) : Slip-link Simulations of Well-Entangled Linear Polymer Melts under Fast Flows: Role of the Stretch/Orientation-Induced Reduction of Friction

Co-author: Takashi Taniguchi

Taghipour Hamid (UCLouvain): DYNAMICS OF ENTANGLED LINEAR POLYMERS AT FASTS DEFORMATIONS: INFLUENCE OF MATRIX VISCOELASTICITY

Co-authors: D. Vlassopoulos and Evelyne van Ruymbeke

Vereroudakis Emmanouil (FORTH, Heraklion): The role of humidity in the flow properties of supramolecular organogelators

Co-authors: N.J. Van Zee, E.W. Meijer and Dimitris Vlassopoulos