Cyrille is a professor in the school of chemical engineering, Associate Dean (Research and Training) in the Faculty of Engineering and an Australian Laureate Fellow at the University of New South Wales. He works on creating functional macromolecules for use in nanomedicine, advanced materials, and energy storage. Professor Boyer is best known for pioneering PET-RAFT polymerization—a light-activated method for making polymers with excellent control—along with developing synthetic bioactive polymers, such as antimicrobial materials, and new 3D printing techniques for precisely shaping materials at the nano- and macro-scale.