Commemorating Timothy McKenna's 60th Birthday

IF 1.8 4区 工程技术 Q3 ENGINEERING, CHEMICAL
João B. P. Soares
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Abstract

I am pleased to celebrate the 60th birthday of our colleague and friend, Tim McKenna, in this special issue of Macromolecular Reaction Engineering (MRE). I am also thrilled that I am not the only one to reach this milestone, even though I preceded him by a couple of years. Welcome to the club, old man.

The number and scope of articles submitted to this special MRE issue reflect Tim's many accomplishments in polymer reaction engineering. Tim is the Director of Research of CP2M/CNRS and a Professor at CPE-Lyon in Villeurbanne, France. Tim's research program applies chemical engineering tools to understand, quantify, and control polymerization reactors, focusing on polyolefins and specialized latex products. He has published 269 peer-reviewed articles, 12 book chapters, 1 authored book, and is listed as an inventor in 6 patents. Tim has also given many keynote lectures and invited presentations in international conferences, and supervised a multitude of graduate students who are currently contributing to different areas of polymer science and engineering. He has also organized several international conferences, most notably Incorep (International Conference on the Reaction Engineering of Polyolefins), previously known as Ecorep (European Conference on the Reaction Engineering of Polyolefins), which will become the Blue Sky-Incorep conference in 2023, combining by the first time aspects of polyolefin chemistry, catalysis, and reaction engineering. Tim is also highly sought after as a consultant and as an expert witness for the polymer industry.

I was lucky to meet Tim when we were still at the beginning of our academic careers. If memory doesn't fail me—as it's prone to do after one's 60th birthday—we first met in 1997, in Palm Coast, Florida, while attending Polymer Reaction Engineering III. Tim was interested on improving single particle models for olefin polymerization, focusing on intraparticle transport phenomena, particle morphology development, and thermodynamic equilibrium, while I was integrating polymerization kinetics and microstructural characterization methods to better understand olefin polymerization with coordination catalysts. Luckily for us, our research interests superimposed just enough to foster collaboration but not to trigger the shadow of competition that haunts young academics. This first meeting led to a lifelong collaboration—including our book, Polyolefin Reaction Engineering, and a series of open and in-house industrial short courses—allowing us to visit most major polyolefin manufacturing companies and travel the world together.

But I suspect that work alone would not be enough to maintain our friendship over the years. Research interests aside, Tim and I are both liberal humanists who share a love for single malts, good wines, long dinners capped with perhaps a few too many poires, and an irreverent sense of humor. Above all, we don't confuse being serious about our work with taking ourselves too seriously.

It has been a privilege to have met a friend like Tim at the beginning of my career. I generally don't admit this in public, and never in his presence, but I have learned and benefited much from his expertise over these almost 30 years of collaboration.

For all your many achievements and enduring friendship, I would like to raise a toast to you, my old friend, and wish you a very happy 60th birthday on behalf of all the authors in this special issue. I look forward to working with you until both of us forget what a bivariate distribution is. (But, have you ever really understood it, Tim?)

Tim Mckenna and I (the older-looking guy is Tim) in 2017, experiencing a Game of Thrones moment in Sonoma Valley, irresponsibly skipping a few talks during Advances in Polyolefins.

纪念蒂莫西·麦肯纳60岁生日
我很高兴在本期《大分子反应工程》特刊上为我们的同事兼朋友蒂姆·麦肯纳庆祝60岁生日。我也很激动,我不是唯一一个达到这一里程碑的人,尽管我比他早了几年。欢迎加入我们,老家伙。提交给这期MRE特刊的文章的数量和范围反映了Tim在聚合物反应工程方面的许多成就。蒂姆是CP2M/CNRS的研究主任,法国维勒班里昂cpe的教授。Tim的研究项目应用化学工程工具来理解、量化和控制聚合反应器,重点是聚烯烃和专用乳胶产品。他发表了269篇同行评议文章,12本书章节,1本书,并被列为6项专利的发明人。Tim还在国际会议上发表了许多主题演讲和受邀演讲,并指导了许多目前在聚合物科学和工程的不同领域做出贡献的研究生。他还组织了几次国际会议,其中最著名的是Incorep(国际聚烯烃反应工程会议),以前称为Ecorep(欧洲聚烯烃反应工程会议),该会议将于2023年更名为蓝天-Incorep会议,首次将聚烯烃化学,催化和反应工程方面结合起来。作为聚合物行业的顾问和专家证人,Tim也备受追捧。我很幸运在我们的学术生涯刚刚开始的时候就遇到了蒂姆。如果我没记错的话——人过了60岁生日就容易失忆——我们第一次见面是在1997年,在佛罗里达州的棕榈海岸,当时我们正在参加聚合物反应工程III课程。Tim对改进烯烃聚合的单颗粒模型感兴趣,专注于颗粒内传输现象、颗粒形态发展和热力学平衡,而我则整合聚合动力学和微观结构表征方法,以更好地理解配位催化剂下的烯烃聚合。幸运的是,我们的研究兴趣刚好重合,足以促进合作,但不会引发困扰年轻学者的竞争阴影。这第一次会面导致了我们终生的合作——包括我们的书《聚烯烃反应工程》,以及一系列开放和内部的工业短期课程——使我们能够参观大多数主要的聚烯烃制造公司,并一起环游世界。但我怀疑,仅仅靠工作不足以维持我们多年的友谊。抛开研究兴趣不谈,蒂姆和我都是自由的人文主义者,我们都喜欢单一麦芽威士忌、好酒、长时间的晚餐(可能喝得太多了),还有一种不拘礼仪的幽默感。最重要的是,我们不会把认真对待工作和太认真对待自己混为一谈。在我的职业生涯之初就遇到蒂姆这样的朋友是我的荣幸。我一般不会在公开场合承认这一点,也不会当着他的面承认这一点,但在这近30年的合作中,我从他的专业知识中学到了很多,并从中受益良多。鉴于您取得的诸多成就和长久的友谊,我谨代表本期特刊的所有作者,为您的60大寿干杯,祝您生日快乐!我很期待和你们一起工作直到我们都忘记二元分布是什么。(但是,蒂姆,你真的理解过吗?)2017年,蒂姆·麦肯纳和我(看起来年纪大的那个是蒂姆)在索诺玛谷体验《权力的游戏》,在聚烯烃进展会议上不负责任地跳过了几场演讲。
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Macromolecular Reaction Engineering
Macromolecular Reaction Engineering 工程技术-高分子科学
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期刊介绍: Macromolecular Reaction Engineering is the established high-quality journal dedicated exclusively to academic and industrial research in the field of polymer reaction engineering.
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