AVROXA - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Co - Founder
Victor R. de la Rosa studied Chemistry at the University of Valladolid (UVa; Spain) and Ghent University (UGent; Belgium), where he spent a year within the Erasmus programme. Upon graduating in 2010, he returned to Ghent to conduct a PhD on poly(2-oxazoline)s and supramolecular chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Richard Hoogenboom.
In 2015, he was awarded an IWT post-doctoral grant (now VLAIO) to create a spin-off company based on the poly(2-oxazoline) platform. He developed scalable processes for the production of high-quality polyoxazolines and derivatives, with a special focus on biomedical applications. He is co-inventor in five patents and has co-authored over 20 scientific publications, mostly in the polyoxazoline field.
Early 2018, Victor co-founded the spin-off company Avroxa, dedicated to the design and production of polyoxazolines and derivatives under the Ultroxa brand name. Victor leads the Avroxa team since 2020.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- Scientific Advisor
Richard Hoogenboom studied chemical engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e; Netherlands). In 2005, he obtained his PhD under the supervision of Ulrich S. Schubert (TU/e) and continued working as project leader for the Dutch Polymer Institute; partly combined with a part-time position as Senior Product Developer at Dolphys Medical.
After postdoctoral training with Martin Möller at the RWTH Aachen (Humboldt fellowship; 2008) and Roeland J. M. Nolte at the Radboud University Nijmegen (NWO veni-grant; 2009), he was appointed as associate professor at Ghent University in 2010 and promoted to full professor in 2014.
His research interests include poly(2-oxazoline)s, stimuli-responsive polymers, and supramolecular materials, fields in which he is (co)inventor in more than 10 patent families and has co-authored over 300 scientific publications. He is currently associate editor for European Polymer Journal and Australian Journal of Chemistry.
Avroxa counts with Prof. Richard Hoogenboom as Scientific Advisor. Prof. Hoogenboom is a worldwide recognized expert in the field of poly(2-oxazoline)s and derivatives, and his research accumulates over 12,000 citations (full publication list available here).