Guy Joly

Guy Joly has worked in industry for approximately 18 years. He began his career at 3M in the Corporate Research Materials Laboratory, developing materials for applications ranging from adhesives to dental composites. Guy has held a variety of technical and management positions within 3M and is a coinventor on more than 50 US patents. He was part of a collaborative team that received the 2020 ACS Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science and Engineering for the development of new monomer technology that has been commercialized in composite dental restoratives.

Guy is currently the Vice President and Technical Director of the 3M Corporate Research Materials Laboratory (CRML). The mission of the CRML is to develop material technologies that provide a sustainable competitive advantage for 3M’s businesses. The CRML has research focused on Adhesives & Release Materials Sciences, Films, Fibers & Coatings, Specialty Materials, Ceramics & Glasses and Physics & Optics. Within these focus areas, the CRML invents and develops differentiated materials, protects materials-related intellectual property, deploys materials technologies to the Business Groups, and supports the scale up and commercialization of new materials within 3M.

Guy received a B.A. in Chemistry from Hamline University and was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow at Harvard University where he earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry working in the laboratory of Professor Eric N. Jacobsen. Prior to joining 3M, Guy spent two years as an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT in the laboratory of Professor Timothy M. Swager.