Dr. Chris Robertson is an international authority on polymer science and rubber compounding for performance. Chris is the principal consultant at his company Polymer Technology Services LLC which offers technical consulting and training for the tire and rubber industry (and the polymer technology field in general). He has more than 20 years of experience as a materials scientist and engineer in the tire, synthetic rubber, rubber additives, and plastics industries. The companies that Chris worked for include Bridgestone Americas, Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, ExxonMobil Chemical, Eastman Chemical, and Endurica LLC. Chris also spent two years in Saudi Arabia leading the education program at an elastomer technical college as a representative of The University of Akron. After earning a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1999 in the field of polymer science, Chris spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher in polymer physics at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory before starting his industrial R&D career. Through his collaborations with numerous scientists and engineers in industry and academia, he is co-inventor of 34 patents and co-author of 68 publications in peer-reviewed journals with a citation h-index of 35. 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.