Stefan A. F. Bon is a full professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick. He has studied chemical engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TUe) in the Netherlands (cum laude, 1989-1993). He did his Ph.D. (1993-1998) in the polymer chemistry group of prof.dr.ir. Anton L. German at TUe, after which he worked as a post-doctoral research assistant in the group of prof. David M. Haddleton at the University of Warwick (1998-2000). He was appointed as Unilever Lecturer in Polymer Chemistry at the University of Warwick in January 2001. During this period of research he focussed on the mechanistic aspects of living radical polymerisation in both homogeneous and heterogeneous systems, including the first ever living radical polymerization performed in emulsion. 

In 2005 Stefan Bon shifted his research interests from reversible deactivation radical polymerization to supracolloidal chemical engineering, looking at the design of assembled supracolloidal structures and the synthesis of their colloidal and macromolecular building blocks. One of the key accomplishments was the use of Pickering stabilisation as a tool in mini-emulsion and emulsion polymerization strategies.

Stefan Bon continues to innovate in the area of polymer and colloid science with his scientific team, BonLab (https://bonlab.info). They combine polymer and colloid chemistry with soft matter physics and add a chemical engineering twist. The gained know-how is then coupled to material properties and behaviour with the aim to advance material design, often in close collaboration with industry. In the last few years, a “green transformation” on approaching and tackling scientific projects has been undertaken with a strong emphasis on sustainable technology and innovation, which now sits centrally in BonLab's research activities. 

At Warwick University he is the founder and chair of the Polymer Club, an international industrial consortium.

Stefan Bon is passionate about education. He is a 2021 recipient of an individual Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence (WATE) [read more].

He is a Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). He is a current member 2020- of the physical Newton international fellowship committee of the Royal Society. He sits on the advisory board of two of the Royal Society of Chemistry scientific journals, RSC Applied Polymers and Soft Matter.

He is an invited member, the 2013-2015 chair of the International Polymer Colloids Group (IPCG), and the founder and host of the 2020 COVID19 i-PCG webinar series. Bon has been visiting professor at the university Claude Bernard Lyon I (spring 2014) and visiting professor at the University of Tasmania (summer 2014). Stefan Bon was awarded the 2015-2016 Royal Society of Chemistry Materials Division Outreach Lecturer.