A specially appointed Judging Committee selects the winner of the DSM Performance Materials Award from among the shortlist of candidates submitted by the Nomination Committee. The judges will review the candidates on the basis of the following criteria: reputation among peers and publications in peer-reviewed journals; contribution to polymeric materials sciences and consistency of research activities; innovativeness of scientific contribution; communication and presentation skills.

Chair: Prof. Dr Joseph A. Put (DSM)

Secretary: Mr Vikas Sonak, MA (DSM)

Voting DSM members:

• Prof. Dr Joseph A. Put (chair) – Chief Technology Officer of DSM and Professor of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Hasselt (Belgium)
• Dr Rein Borggreve – DSM Director Performance Materials R&D
• Dr Markus Bulters – DSM Competence Manager Materials Science

Voting IUPAC members:

• Prof. Christopher K. Ober – President, IUPAC Polymer Division and Francis Bard Professor of Materials Engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (US)
• Prof. Robert F. T. Stepto – Former President, IUPAC Polymer Division and Research Professor in Polymer Science at the University of Manchester, Manchester (UK)