Christopher Barner-Kowollik (born 1973) is a German-Australian materials scientist who is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow working in macromolecular photochemistry.
[3] He is a principal investigator within the Soft Matter Materials Laboratory at QUT[4] and associate research group leader at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
[6] Following postdoctoral research with Tom Davis at the University of New South Wales, he held academic positions at the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD), and was appointed Full Professor of Polymer Chemistry in 2006 at the same institution.
[8] He is a founding PI and thrust speaker in the DFG Excellence Cluster 3D Matter Made to Order.
[28] Examples of precision photochemistry from his laboratory range from synergistically operating covalent bond forming systems and photoresins[29] requiring two colours of light to cure and examples of pathway independent wavelength orthogonal reaction systems[30] to using different colours of light to selectively adapt soft matter material properties.