Dr. Chris Robertson is principal consultant at Polymer Technology Services LLC in Akron, Ohio (USA), a company that he founded in 2021 to provide technical consulting and training for the rubber industry and the polymer technology field in general.  Chris has more than 20 years of experience as a materials scientist and engineer in the tire, synthetic rubber, rubber additives, and plastics industries, including 10 years working in R&D at tire companies.  Since 2020, Chris is serving as the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Rubber Chemistry and Technology and was an associate editor for 10 years prior.  Chris also teaches online graduate courses on elastomer science and technology as an adjunct professor in the Department of Plastics Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.  Chris has expertise and research interest in polymer viscoelasticity and rheology, rubber compound development, and elastomer fracture behavior.