Welcome To CPS
The Centre for Polymer Sustainability (CPS) fast-tracks innovative technological solutions for how plastics are made, unmade and remade. Our mission is to engage, equip and educate our diverse and pioneering partners to deliver polymer circularity for sustainable and prosperous living. Our vision focuses on the preservation of natural resources and the reduction of polluting emissions while creating jobs and building market opportunities.
About Us
Centre for Polymer Sustainability Mission:
Fast track Advancing sustainable technology solutions, that preserve natural resources and reduce polluting emissions while creating jobs and building market opportunities.
The Centre for Polymer Sustainability (CPS), based at the Technological University of the Shannon(TUS), is dedicated to meeting the growing global need for circular solutions for plastics. We are CSP is fast-tracking innovations for how plastics are sustainably made, unmade and remade through research excellence and engaging industry, education and diverse partnerships. A number of innovative solutions for delivering circularity for plastics are being piloted and further technologies to provide circularity for plastics are under development. CPS provides a pertinent vehicle which is differentiated by its pivotal operation at the interface of a broad span of disciplines connected with polymers. CPS serves as a key platform, playing a crucial role in sustainable polymer research.
Enabling circularity for an increasingly wide source of plastics and polymers, including those that are not recycled/recyclable today is a core CPS activity. Our solutions are delivered by our talented cross-sectorial team and national and international projects designed to match the future needs of the new EU circular plastics economy across the full value chain.
Circularity for Polymer Technology
CPS adopts a dual approach that integrates both mechanical engineering and biotechnological innovation to transform how plastics are produced, deconstructed, and remade within a circular economy. Mechanical engineering pathways focus on advanced processing, material design, and scalable depolymerization recycling systems to enable life cycle circularity of polymer materials.
In parallel, CPS leverages biotechnological approaches, to enable low-energy breakdown and regeneration of plastics ,and development of high-performance drop-in alternative to mainstay fossil fuel-based plastics. By combining these disciplines, CPS accelerates the development of sustainable, high-performance polymer materials and closed-loop systems that reduce environmental impact while unlocking new economic opportunities.
What We Offer
Meet The Team
CPS’ team comprises many amazing, highly motivated and adept people, dedicated to building compelling ecological-based technology propositions, creating new prospects for industrial circularity. Our team works closely with consumers, industry, academia and policy makers on an international basis to foster and implement opportunities delivering radical innovation for a sustainable world.
Margaret Brennan Fournet
LIFE Research Institute Director and Manager of CPS
Necdet Özçelik
PhD Candidate
Jeovan Araujo
Principal Investigator
Everton Henrique Da silva Pereira
Postdoctoral Researcher
Laura Gabriela Rodriguez Barroso
Project Manager
Cuneyt Erdinc Tas
Postdoctoral Researcher
Bor Shin Chee
Postdoctoral Researcher
Buket Alkan Tas
Postdoctoral Researcher
Zeliha Ozcelik
PhD Candidate
Chaitra Venkatesh
Postdoctoral Researcher
Marija Nicevic
Senior Researcher
Let’s Not Forget Our Collaborators
Dr. Margaret Fournet
Dr. Margaret Brennan-Fournet is the Manager of the Centre for Polymer Sustainability (CPS) and newly appointed Director of the LIFE Research Institute at the Technological University of the Shannon.
She leads a talented cross-sectorial team of researchers delivering transformative technology solutions for economic, social and environmental sustainability.
An experienced physics lecturer, Dr. Fournet has lectured extensively both nationally and internationally. Dr Fournet received a PhD from the School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin in 2002 and joined the Polymer Technologies team at TUS (formally Athlone Institute of Technology) in 2018.
Contact Us
Technological University of the Shannon,
Athlone Campus,
Bunnavally,
Athlone,
Co. Westmeath,
N37 HD68
Email: Margaret.BrennanFournet@tus.ie