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Tuesday 18 October 2016

Michele Aresta

Michele Aresta
Michele Aresta
IMM Chair, NUS, Singapore Scientific Coordinator of CIRCC, Consortium on Catalysis, Italy
Education:
Doctor Industrial Chemistry, University of Milan-Italy, Research Assistant with Prof. R.S. Nyholm, University College, London
Professional Career:
1971-1975 Assistant Professor, University of Bari, Italy; 1975-1985 Associate Professor, University of Bari and University of Lecce, Italy; 1985-2012 Full Professor, University of Bari; Invited Professor 1982-2010 at the Institute de Catalyse, CNRS-Lyon(FR), Universities of Dijon (FR), Toulouse (FR), Bordeaux (FR), Rennes (FR); Tsukuba Research Centre (J); Sao Carlos (BR); Ekaterinburg (RU); Tianjin (CHINA).
Publications:
over 250 Research Articles in Chemistry in International Journals until April 2012; Editor of seven books on “CO2 chemistry” with Wiley, Reidel, ACS. Editor of the Book “Biorefinery: from Biomass to Chemicals and Fuels”, De Gruyter; Editor of the Book “Inorganic Micro and Nano-Materials. Synthesis and characterization”, De Gruyter. Author of numerous Chapters of Books upon invitation.
Awards and Honors:
Award of the Italian Chemical Society for the work on “Carbon Dioxide Activation” (1990). “Renoir Prize” for the diffusion of knowledge (1989). Awards from the Rectors of the University of Krakow, Wroclaw, Poznan, Opole for the dissemination of Sustainable Chemical Processes and curricula innovation in Chemistry (1991-1998). Recognition certificates by the Fuel Division of the American Chemical Society for the dissemination of Carbon Dioxide Chemistry. Honorary Professor of the University of Tianjin, 2004. Award of the Societé Francaise de Chimie for Inorganic Chemistry, 2005-06. IMM Chair NUS, Singapore 2013.


Dr. Michele Aresta is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Bari in Bari, Italy. Dr. Aresta serves as a Member of Scientific Advisory Board at Liquid Light Corporation. Dr. Aresta is President of the Inorganic Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society and Director of the Inter-university Consortium of Chemical Reactivity and Catalysis (CIRCC). He is the author or Editor of four books on the subject of carbon dioxide utilization. His awards include the Renoir Prize, Award of the Societe Francaise de Chimie, and the Award of the Italian Chemical Society for his work on Carbon Dioxide Utilization. Dr. Aresta is a Global Leader in carbon dioxide chemistry and the chemistry of small molecules. His research for 25 years has focused on catalytic means of using carbon dioxide as a feedstock for the chemical industry. Dr. Aresta holds a PhD in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Milan, Italy.
University of Bath
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michele_Aresta/info
michele.aresta@uniba.it

Research experience

  • Jan 2015–
    Dec 2016
    David Parkin Professor
    University of Bath · Department of Chemical Engineering
    United Kingdom
    Development of new reactors
  • Jan 2012–
    Aug 2016
    IMM Chair
    National University of Singapore · Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
    Singapore · Singapore
  • Nov 1970–
    Nov 2012
    Professor
    Università degli Studi di Bari · Department of Chemistry · Aresta-Quaranta-Dibenedetto
    Italy · Bari


imageProfessor Michele ARESTA

Professor of Chemistry and
Director of CIRCC- National Consortium on Catalysis
President of the Inorganic Chemistry
Division of the Italian Chemical Society
Michele Aresta Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bari-IT until 2012, since 2013 holds the IMM Chair at the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty at NUS-SG and chairs the Scientific Committee of the Interuniversity Consortium on Chemical Reactivity and Catalysis-ICCDU, Italy. His main reserach interests are: chemistry of small molecules, catalysis, carbon recycling, utilization of CO2 in the synthesis of chemicals, conversion of waste biomass into chemicals and fuels, photochemical reactions. He was and stilli is co-ordinator of several international and national projects.
He served as Italy delegate in EU Programmes. He was Director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, and of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Bari. He was Dean of the Environmental Sciences Faculty at the same University for over 10 years. He is author of over 250 peer reviewed papers and author or editor of seven books on "CO2 utilization" and "Biomass utilization implementing the concept of biorefinery". He received several awards, among which the Renoir Prize for the dissemination of scientific culture, the Award of the Italian Chemical Society for the pioneering work on CO2 utilization, the Award of the Societé Française de Chimie for Inorganic Chemistry, several Awards of ACS, the Green Chemistry Award of the Chinese Academy. He is Honorary Professor at the University of Tianjin-Tianjin Chin


Prof. Michele Aresta

Director, Inter-university Consortium of Chemical Reactivity and Catalysis (CIRCC), University of Bari, EuroBioRef

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R. Tom Baker

R. Tom Baker
R. Tom Baker
Professor of Chemistry and Director, Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation, University of Ottawa, Canada
Webpage:
http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rbaker/index.html
Education:
B.Sc. (Honours) in Chemistry (1975) from UBC, Canada and Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry (1980) from UCLA (with M. Frederick Hawthorne).
Professional Career:
1980-1981 Postdoctoral Fellow with Philip Skell at Penn State University; 1981-1996 Research chemist at DuPont CR&D, Delaware, USA; 1996-2008 Staff scientist and Program Manager, Los Alamos National laboratory, New Mexico, USA; 2008-present Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Catalysis Science for Energy Applications, CCRI Director and Chemistry professor at uOttawa, Canada; 2012 invited professor at ENS Lyon, France.
Publications:
More than 100 peer-reviewed publications and 18 US patents.
Awards and Honors:
2009 Appointed Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2011 Canadian Institute of Chemistry's Green Chemistry and Engineering award and 2013 Kalev Pugi award from the Canadian chapter of the Society of Chemical Industry.
Research Interests:
Mild catalyzed routes for biomass conversion including tandem catalysis schemes; greener synthesis of small molecule hydrofluorocarbons and fluoropolymers using organometallic catalysis; catalysts for selective hydrogen release from chemical hydrides; new classes of 'tunable' heterogeneous catalysts.

Jitendra K. Bera














Jitendra K. Bera
Professor, IIT Kanpur, India
Webpage:
http://home.iitk.ac.in/~jbera/
Bera received his M. Sc. from the University of Kalyani in 1993 and his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science in 1999. After a couple of postdoctoral stints at Purdue University and at Texas A&M University, he joined the faculty at IIT Kanpur in 2003 where he is presently a Professor. He is the recipient of the Ramanna fellowship and the SwarnaJayanti fellowship from DST, India, and has received the CRSI bronze medal for the year 2011. Bera's research interests span synthetic, structural and mechanistic organometallic chemistry. Recent efforts are directed toward bifunctional activation of small and abundant molecules and their catalytic transformations to useful and value-added chemicals.

Jitendra K. Bera



Dr. Jitendra K. Bera


Academic Background
May -June 2014   Visiting Professor, University Paul Sabatier, France
Jan - Feb 2014     Visiting Professor, Osaka University, Japan
2012 - present        Professor of Chemistry, IIT-Kanpur
2008 - 2011           Associate Professor of Chemistry, IIT-Kanpur
2003 - 2007           Assistant Professor of Chemistry, IIT-Kanpur
2000 -2003          Post-doc, Texas A&M University, USA.
1999 - 2000          Post-doc, Purdue University, USA.
1999                       Ph D, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India.
1993                       M. Sc. Kalyani University
            1990                       B. Sc. Vidyasagar University
Research Interest
  • Bimetallic Synergism
  • Small Molecule Activation
  • Metal-Ligand Cooperativity
  • N-Heterocyclic Carbene
  • Green Chemistry
    
Professional Societies Membership and Activities
  • Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, IIT Kanpur, 2014-2016
  • Member, Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Council, 2014-2017
  • Member, National Organizing Committee (NOC) -MTIC, 2014
  • Member of the Editorial Board of  Resonance -Journal of Science Education
  • Member of the International Advisory Board of the XXV ICOMC (Lisbon, 2012)
  • Member of the International Advisory Board of the XXVI ICOMC (Sapporo, Japan, 2014)
  • Life Member, Chemical Research Society of IndiaBangalore (1999 )

 Fellowships and Awards
Agency
Award/Fellowship
Year
IIT Kanpur
Satish Chandra Agarwal Chair
2015-2017
National Academy of Sciences
FNASc
2014
Indian Academy of Sciences.
FASc
2014
Chemical Research Society of India
Bronze medal
2012
Department of Science and Technology, India
Swarnajayanti Fellowship
2008
Department of Science and Technology, India
Ramanna Fellowship
2007








Ten Recent Publications
(1) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015137, 6168. (2) Organometallics 201534, 0000. (3) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014,136, 13987. (4)  Chem. Eur. J. 201420, 16537. (5)  Chem. Eur. J. 201420, 6542. (6) Tetrahedron Lett. 201455, 1444. (7) Chem. Commun.201349, 9764. (8) Organometallics 201332, 4306. (9) Inorg. Chem. 201352, 1432. (10)  Organometallics 201332, 340.

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Dr. Christian Bruneau

Dr. Christian Bruneau
Dr. Christian Bruneau
Professor of Chemistry, CNRS-The University of Rennes, France
Webpage:
http://scienceschimiques.univ-rennes1.fr/catalyse/personnels/interface/CB.htm
Dr. Christian Bruneau graduated in chemistry from the Institut National Supérieur de Chimie Industrielle de Rouen (France, 1974) and obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Rennes in the field of organic and environmental chemistry (1979). He got a CNRS position in 1980 and from 1986 has been working in the field of organometallic chemistry, catalyst design, and molecular catalysis. Initially in the group of Prof. Pierre H. Dixneuf, he is now mainly involved in ruthenium-catalyzed selective transformations including olefin metathesis, allylation, sp2- and sp3-C-H bond activation/functionalization, asymmetric catalysis, and bio-resources transformations. From 2000 to 2011, he has been the head of the CNRS-University of Rennes research group involved in ‘‘Organometallics and Catalysis’’.

Yun Chi

Yun Chi
Yun Chi
Distinguished Chair Professor in Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Webpage:
http://chem-en.web.nthu.edu.tw/files/13-1117-33460.php
Yun Chi obtained his Ph.D. degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1986, and pursued a one-year postdoctoral work at MIT. Since 2010, he becomes a Distinguished Chair of Chemistry at National Tsing Hua University. His earlier academic endeavors cover the transition-metal cluster chemistry and design of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) precursors suitable for making metal-containing thin films and nanomaterials. His current researches are focused on subjects involving the design and testing of transition-metal based materials for organic light emitting diodes (OLED) and photovoltaic applications. He is a co-author of over 270 research papers with > 7,500 citations and h-index of > 45, and co-inventor of > 20 Taiwan and US patent applications.

Pierre H. Dixneuf

Pierre H. Dixneuf
Pierre H. Dixneuf
Professor of Chemistry, CNRS-The University of Rennes, France
Webpage:
http://scienceschimiques.univ-rennes1.fr/catalyse/personnels/interface/PHD.htm
Pierre H. Dixneuf obtained his doctorate of Science in Rennes (France) with Prof René Dabard, on ferrocene chemistry, and did postdoctoral work as a CNRS researcher on the first steps of N-Heterocyclic Carbene complexes with Michael F. Lappert at the university of Brighton UK. He is Professor in Rennes since 1978. His research interests, at the interface of organometallics and catalysis, included the activation of alkynes and the design of vinylidenes, allenylidenes, indenylidenes and carbon-rich organometallics with bimetallic and then ruthenium complexes. He developed in Rennes a research team on homogeneous catalysis since 1985 and contributed first to the activation of small molecules, the catalytic incorporation of CO2, the synthesis of vinyl carbamates and unsaturated carbonates and carbamates, introduced ruthenium-vinylidenes in catalysis and antiMarkovnikov additions. Then he performed oxidative couplings of unsaturated molecules with electron rich ruthenium catalysts and since 1997 he contributed to alkene metathesis by creating allenylidene-ruthenium catalyst precursors that opened the road to indenylidene-ruthenium catalysts that are efficient in catalytic plant oil transformations. He is currently contributing to inert C-H bond activation/functionalization with stable ruthenium(II) catalysts, developing catalysis in water and the synthesis of polyheterocyclic molecules. He has co-authored more than 420 publications and co-edited 3 books. He obtained several international awards: Humboldt prize for Research 1989, Le Bel SFC award and Grignard-Wittig Prize (GDCh) 2000, Institut universitaire de France membership since 2000, academie des sciences IFP prize and Sacconi medal (Italy) in 2006.

John A. Gladysz

John A. Gladysz
John A. Gladysz
Distinguished Professor and Dow Chair in Chemical Invenetion, Texas A&M University, USA
Webpage:
http://www.chem.tamu.edu/rgroup/gladysz
Education:
B.S. Chem, University of Michigan, 1971; Ph.D, Stanford University, 1974.
Professional Career:
UCLA (Assistant Professor, 1974-1982), University of Utah (Associate Professor and Professor, 1982-1998), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Chair, Organic Chemistry, 1998-2007), Texas A&M University (Distinguished Professor, 2008-).
Awards and Honors:
Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1980-1984); Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Grant recipient (1980-1985); Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (1988); University of Utah Distinguished Research Award (1992); ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry (1994); von Humboldt Foundation Research Award for Senior Scientists (1995); International Fluorous Technologies Award (2007); Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2009); Texas A&M Distinguished Achievement Award in Research (2013); RSC Award in Organometallic Chemistry (2013); Associate Editor, Chemical Reviews (1984-2010); Editor in Chief, Organometallics (2010-).

Andy Hor

Andy Hor
Andy Hor
Professor of Chemistry, The National University of Singapore, Singapore
Webpage:
http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~andyhor/
Andy Hor was graduated from Imperial College London (B.Sc.(Hon)) and University of Oxford (D.Phil.) and postdoctoral Associate of Yale University. He is Professor of Chemistry of the National University of Singapore (NUS), and Executive Director of the Institute of Materials Research & Engineering (IMRE) of A*Star in Singapore as well as Concurrent Professor of Fudan University of China. He is Fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science (SNAS), President of the Singapore National Institute of Chemistry (SNIC) and President of the Federation of the Asian Chemical Societies (FACS). His research interests are heterometallic materials, organometallic catalysis and supramolecular self-assembly, and has published ~320 ISI paper with ~500 annual citations in recent years. He has delivered numerous plenary, keynote and invited lectures in various international, regional and local meetings. He chaired the 15th Asian Chemical Congress (ACC-15) in 2013 and the coming 41st International Coordination Chemistry Conference (ICCC-41) in July 2014. He is on the international/advisory board of the Chemistry – an Asian Journal, Dalton Transactions and Inorganica Chimica Acta, and Associate Editor of the Australian Journal of Chemistry and Editor of the Journal of Molecular & Engineering Materials (JMEM).

Mark G. Humphrey

Mark G. Humphrey
Mark G. Humphrey
Director of the Australia-China Joint Research Centre for Functional Molecular Materials, Australian National University, Australia
Webpage:
http://chemistry.anu.edu.au/people/professor-mark-humphrey
Mark Humphrey received BSc (1981), BSc(Hons) (1982, with M.I. Bruce), and PhD (1987, with M.I. Bruce) degrees from the University of Adelaide, Australia. He was a Humboldt Fellow at the Universität Würzburg (1987-1989, with G. Erker), a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois (1989-1990, with J.R. Shapley), and a Lecturer (1990-1993) and Senior Lecturer (1994) at the University of New England, Australia, before being appointed to the Australian National University (1994-present) where he was most recently Associate Director (Research) of the Research School of Chemistry (2011-2013). He has been awarded fellowships by the CNRS (France, 1988), Telecom Research Laboratories (Australia, 1991), the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (Australia, 1997), the Science and Technology Agency (Japan, 2001), the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK, 2002), and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Japan, 2009), as well as the Gritton Fellowship by the University of Sydney (Australia, 1990). He was awarded the inaugural Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) Organometallic Award (1998), the RACI Inorganic Award (Burrows Award) (2008), the RACI H.G. Smith Memorial Award (2010), and the David Syme Research Prize (Australia, 2001), an Australian Research Council (ARC) Australian Research Fellowship (1994-1998), ARC Senior Research Fellowship (1999-2003), and two ARC Australian Professorial Fellowships (2004-2008, 2009-2013). He has been Visiting Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium, 2006), Professeur Invité at the Université Rennes I (France, 2007), has received a DSc degree (2003) from the University of Adelaide, Australia, and holds Honorary Professorships at Nanjing University of Science and Technology and Jiangsu University (China, 2007-present) and is a Professor of Jiangnan University (China, 2012-present). He was President of the Australian Capital Territory Branch of the RACI (1999-2001) and Chair of the Inorganic Division of the RACI (2010-2013), and has served on several editorial boards including Journal of Organometallic Chemistry (2002-present) and Organometallics (2007-2009). He is the Australian Director of the Australia-China Joint Research Centre for Functional Molecular Materials and International Distinguished Professor of Jiangsu Province (2011-2014), and is the author of ca 260 publications, with research interests centred on the materials (and particularly nonlinear optical) properties of organometallic complexes.

Guo-Xin Jin

Guo-Xin Jin
Guo-Xin Jin
Professor of Chemistry, Fudan University, China
Webpage:
http://www.chemistry.fudan.edu.cn/usr2000/gxj/index%20eng.htm
Dr Guo-Xin Jin received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Nanjing University in1987. He was a postdoctoral fellow from1988-1990 as Humboldt Fellow and a research staff member from1990-1995 at Organometallic Chemistry Institute of Bayreuth University, Germany. He joined Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, CAS as a Professor and head of a Laboratory in 1996. He moved to Chemistry Department, Fudan University in 2001 as Chair Professor (Cheung Kong Scholarship). His current research interests include various aspects of organometallic chemistry and catalysts for olefin polymerization. He has published more than 280 research papers and 10 review papers and books, and has been involved in 45 patents. He has delivered more than 20 plenary and keynote lectures in international conferences. He is Associate Editor of Dalton Transactions

William D. Jones

William D. Jones
William D. Jones
Charles F. Houghton Professor of Chemistry, The University of Rochester, USA
Webpage:
http://www.chem.rochester.edu/faculty/faculty.php?name=jones
William D. Jones was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1953, and was inspired to work in inorganic chemistry as an undergraduate researcher with Mark S. Wrighton at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, 1975). He obtained a Ph.D. degree in chemistry at California Institute of Technology (1979), working with Robert G. Bergman. He moved to the University of Wisconsin as an NSF postdoctoral fellow with Chuck Casey, and in 1980 accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1984 and Professor in 1987, and is now the Charles F. Houghton Professor of Chemistry. Professor Jones has received several awards, including an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (1984), a Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award (1985), a Royal Society Guest Research Fellowship (1988), a Fulbright-Hays Scholar (1988), a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (1988), the ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry (2003), and an ACS Cope Scholar Award (2009). He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2009), and a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2010). He also has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society since 2003. Professor Jones' research interests include organometallic research in strong C-X bond cleavage, catalysis, model studies, mechanisms, kinetics, thermodynamics, and synthetic applications.

Peter Junk

Peter Junk
Peter Junk
Nevitt Professor in Chemistry, James Cook University, Australia
Webpage:
http://www.jcu.edu.au/phms/chemistry/staff/JCU_106241.html
Peter Junk graduated from The University of Western Australia in 1984 obtaining a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in Chemistry, and completed his Ph.D in Organometallic Chemistry in 1988. His Ph.D. work involved the use of organometallic reagents in organic syntheses, and also the synthetic and structural aspects of organo- and amido- main group metal complexes. After four years employed in the petroleum industry, Peter held several Postdoctoral positions including two years with Prof. Jerry Atwood at Alabama, and one year with Prof. Glen Deacon at Monash University. In 1997, Peter gained an academic position at James Cook University as a Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry. He was given an accelerated promotion to Senior Lecturer in 1999. He moved to the School of Chemistry at Monash University in 2001 where progressed to Professor of Chemistry. Since July 2012 he has been the Nevitt Professor of Chemistry at James Cook University. His main research interests are in rare earth and main group organometallic, organoamido and aryloxo chemistry, but has applied interests in X-ray imaging and corrosion inhibition. He has published in excess of 340 publications and is the Associate Editor of New Journal of Chemistry.

Stuart Macgregor

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Stuart Macgregor
Professor and Head of Institute of Chemical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Webpage:
http://www.che.hw.ac.uk/cic/group.html
Stuart Macgregor was born in Edinburgh in 1966 and received his BSc (1988) and PhD (1992) from the University of Edinburgh. His PhD was obtained under the supervision of Prof Alan Welch and Prof Lesley Yellowlees and concerned structural, electrochemical and spectroscopic studies of metallaboranes. In 1992 he won a NATO Western European Fellowship to work with Prof Odile Eisenstein at the Université de Paris-Sud in Orsay and he subsequently spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra. In 1997 he returned to Scotland take up a lectureship at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. He was promoted to a chair position in 2009 and has been Head of Institute since 2010. Stuart Macgregor's current research uses computational chemistry to model the chemical structure and reactivity of transition metal systems, often of relevance to homogeneous catalysis and metal-mediated organic synthesis. He is particularly interested in bond activation processes, especially those involving challenging C-H and C-F bond cleavage. Techniques employed are based on high-level quantum mechanics, primarily density functional theory and hybrid QM/MM approaches. Most of his work is performed in close collaboration with experimentalists.

Audrey Moores

Audrey Moores


Audrey Moores
Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair in Green Chemistry, Associate Director of the Centre for Green Chemistry and Catalysis, McGill University, Canada
Webpage:
http://moores-group.mcgill.ca/
Education:
B.Sc, Chemistry, 2001, Ecole Polytechnique, France; M.Sc. and Ph.D. with P. Le Floch, Chemistry, 2005, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Professional Career:
2006-2007: Post-doctoral Fellow with R. H. Crabtree, Chemistry, Yale University, USA; Since 2007: Assistant Professor, Chemistry, McGill University, QC, Canada
Publications:
40 peer-reviewed publications, 2 book chapters
Awards and Honors:
Best Ph.D. Thesis Award (2005, Ecole Polytechnique, France); Lavoisier Post-doctoral Fellowship (2005-2006); Science Communication Fellowship for Green Chemistry (2011, Environmental Health News and Advancing Green Chemistry)
Research Interests:
Our research focuses on synthesizing, characterizing and studying novel and simple catalysts, based on metal nanoparticles, ionic liquids and/or cellulose nanocrystals in order to propose innovative and recyclable catalysts for organic reactions. We are also interested in developing greener, solvent free, nanoparticles synthetic methods.

Hsyueh-Liang Wu

Hsyueh-Liang Wu

Hsyueh-Liang Wu
Associate Professor of Chemistry, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Webpage:
http://www.chem.ntnu.edu.tw/people/bio.php?PID=669
Hsyueh-Liang Wu was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He received his B.Sc. from National Tsing Hua University in 1997, and obtained his Ph.D. in 2004 under the supervision of Prof. Biing-Jiun Uang. He then carried out postdoc trainings in Osaka University (with Prof. Toshikazu Hirao, from 2005-2007), National Tsing Hua University (Prof. Biing-Jiun Uang, from 2007-2008), and MIT (with Greg. C. Fu, from 2008-2009). In 2009, he joined the Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan Normal University as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 2013. His research interests include: synthetic organic chemistry and organometallic chemistry.











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Zuowei Xie

Zuowei Xie
Zuowei Xie
Choh-Ming Li Professor of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Webpage:
http://www.chem.cuhk.edu.hk/faculty_xie_zuowei.htm
Professor Zuowei Xie obtained a BSc degree from Hangzhou University in 1983 and a MS degree from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1986. After earning a PhD from a joint Ph.D. program of Technische Universität Berlin and Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry in 1990, he spent one year as a Research Associate in the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry and three years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Southern California. He then joined the Department of Chemistry at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1995 as an Assistant Professor, and is currently a Choh-Ming Li Professor of Chemistry and Associate Dean of Faculty of Science. His research interests encompass the chemistry of boron clusters, carboranes and metallacarboranes, organometallic chemistry of transition metals, homogenous catalysis and the activation of small molecules. Professor Xie has co-authored over 210 publications in peer-reviewed journals and received an array of honors and awards, including the State Natural Science Award in 2008, the Chinese Chemical Society Huang Yao-Zeng Award in Organometallic Chemistry in 2010, Research Excellence Award from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2007 and the Croucher Award from The Croucher Foundation (Hong Kong) in 2003. He also serves on the editorial board of Organometallics, Dalton Transactions, Science China (Chemistry), Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers and Chinese Journal of Chemistry.

Zhenfeng Xi

Zhenfeng Xi



Zhenfeng Xi
Professor of Chemistry, Peking University, China
Webpage:
http://www.chem.pku.edu.cn/xizf/revised/
Zhenfeng Xi was born in Henan Province, China. He received his B.Sc. degree from Xiamen University in 1983, and his M.Sc. degree from Nanjing University, Zhengzhou University and the Henan Institute of Chemistry in 1989. He joined Professor Tamotsu Takahashi’s group at the Institute for Molecular Sciences, Japan, as a Ph.D. course student in 1993 and obtained a Ph.D. degree in 1996. He took an Assistant Professor position at Hokkaido University, Japan, in 1997, after he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow with Professor Takahashi at CRC. In 1998, he joined the College of Chemistry at Peking University, where he is now a Professor. Prof. Xi’s research interests include (1) Development of Organo-bi-metallic Reagents, (2) Reactive Organometallic Intermediate-based Organic Synthesis, and (3) Transition-metal Catalyzed Synthesis of Silacycles and Azacycles via Cleavage Si-C, silyl C-H, and C-N Bonds. He has published more than 200 papers in refereed journals, delivered more than 200 invited lectures to conferences, universities, research institutes, and industry around the world. Prof. Xi received several awards including Outstanding Young Investigator award from Hong Kong Qiu Shi Science & Technologies Foundation in 2000 and Yaozeng Huang Organometallic Chemistry Award in 2004. He serves for several international journals as editors or advisory board members, including Associate Editor of Applied Organometallic Chemistry (Wiley), Member of the advisory board of Synlett, Synthesis, Chem. Lett. and Asian J. Org. Chem., Member of the Consulting Board of Editors of Tetrahedron/Tetrahedron Letters. He also serves for several Chinese journals as editors or advisory board members, including Associate Editor of Chinese Science Bulletin, and Chemistry.










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Wai-Yeung Wong

Wai-Yeung Wong


Wai-Yeung Wong
Chair Professor in Chemistry and Associate Department Head, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Webpage:
http://chem.hkbu.edu.hk/rwywong
Wai-Yeung Wong received his BSc (1992) and PhD (1995) degrees from the University of Hong Kong. After a postdoctoral year with Prof. F. Albert Cotton in Texas A&M University in 1996, he worked for Profs. The Lord Jack Lewis (FRS) and Paul R. Raithby at the University of Cambridge in 1997. He joined Hong Kong Baptist University as an Assistant Professor in 1998, rising through the academic ranks to Chair Professor in Chemistry in 2011 at the age of 40. Professor Wong’s research interest focuses on synthetic inorganic/organometallic chemistry and materials chemistry. He is internationally renowned for his research in metallopolymers and metallo-organic molecules with energy functions and photofunctional properties. 
Professor Wong has a distinguished publication record of >420 scientific articles to date and his current h-index is 54. He becomes the first Chinese scientist to be presented with the Chemistry of the Transition Metals Award by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2010. He has also won the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship Award in 2009, FACS Distinguished Young Chemist Award in 2011, Distinguished Lectureship Award from The Chemical Society of Japan and Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation in 2012. Recently, he received the State Natural Science Award (Second-class) of P.R. China in 2013. Professor Wong is currently the Regional Editor (Japan and East Asia) of Journal of Organometallic Chemistry and Associate Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry C, and serves on the editorial/international advisory boards of Polymer Chemistry,Chemistry: An Asian JournalDalton TransactionsDyes and Pigments,Macromolecular Rapid CommunicationsMacromolecular Chemistry & Physics,Comments on Inorganic Chemistry etc. At present, he is the Chairman of the Hong Kong Chemical Society and Secretary of Royal Society of Chemistry (Hong Kong Section).














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Gerard van Koten

Gerard van Koten


Gerard van Koten
Honorary Distinguished Professor of the Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Webpage:
http://www.gerardvankoten.nl
Education and Professional Career:
Studied at Utrecht University (MSc 1967). Joined the Institute for Organic Chemistry, TNO in Utrecht (1967-1977), PhD (1974; Summa Cum Laude, Utrecht University, Prof. dr. G. J. H. van der Kerk). 1977-1986 University of Amsterdam (Inorganic Chemistry), 1984 (personal) Chair (Organometallic Chemistry). Chair of Organic Chemistry and Catalysis at the Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science of the Utrecht University (1986-2007). Current: Distinguished University Professor of the Utrecht University (2004-2016) and Distinguished Research Professor (part time) of the University of Cardiff (UK) (2007-2010) and Honorary Distinguished Professor (2011- 2016).
Science interests:
Research interests comprise the study of fundamental processes in organometallic chemistry (e.g. organo-copper and –lithium), the application of organometallic complexes as catalysts for homogeneous catalysis, in particular for fine-chemical synthesis, and as materials with special physicochemical properties. Well known for ground breaking fundamental and applied research on XCX-Pincer metal complexes and the preparation and use of the first examples of homogeneous metallodendrimer catalysts as supramolecular systems with (organometallic) catalytically active functionalities. Author of over 800 scientific publications and review papers and of 35 patents.
Miscellaneous:
Member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Foresight Group Chemistry of the Netherlands Government (responsible for the coordination and initiation of innovation in Industry and Academia in The Netherlands). Chairman of the committee for the renewal of the Chemistry Education Program at pre-university level of the Ministry for Education and Science (2003-2011) in the Netherlands. Consultant of chemical and pharmaceutical companies, e.g.DSM, Novartis, DOW Chemicals, Ciba Specialty Chemicals (until 2008) and Arkema Vlissingen (current) and Givaudan (current).











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Yong Tang

Yong Tang

Yong Tang
Research Professor, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China
Webpage:
http://english.lomc.sioc.cas.cn/People/Faculty/201007/t20100723_56887.html
Education:
1986 B.S. (Sichuan Normal University); 1996 Ph.D. (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry).
Professional Experience:
1996 Research Associate (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry); 1996-1999 Postdoc (Prof. Y. Shi, Colorado State University); 1997-1999 Postdoc (Prof. A. Kozikowski, Georgetown University); 1999 Assistant Professor (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry); 2000- Professor (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry).
Honors & Awards:
2000 Talented Scientists Program, Chinese Academy of Sciences; 2001 The First Class Award of Progress of Science and Technology of Shanghai (rank 3 in the awardees); 2002 National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars; 2002 The CAS-Bayer Award; 2002 The Second Class Award of National Natural Sciences (rank 3 in the awardees); 2004  SYNTHESIS/SYNLETT Journal Award; 2006  Science and Technology Award for Chinese Youth; 2011 The First Class Award of National Natural Sciences of Shanghai (rank 1 in the awardees); 2012 The Second Class Award of National Natural Sciences in China (rank 1 in the awardees); 2012 Yao-Zheng Huang Organometallic Chemistry Award, Chinese Chemical Society.
Research Interests:
Ylide Chemistry in Organic Synthesis, Asymmetric Catalysis, Control Synthesis of Polyolefin.

Armando J. L. Pombeiro

Armando J. L. Pombeiro
Armando J. L. Pombeiro
Professor of Chemistry, The University of Lisbon, Portugal
Webpage:
http://cqe.ist.utl.pt/personal_pages/pages/armando_pombeiro.php
Armando J. L. Pombeiro got his PhD at University of Sussex (under the supervision of Prof. J. Chatt and Prof. R. L. Richards), is/was Vice-President of the Class of Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, Secretary-General of this Academy and a representative at ICSU (International Council for Science), EASAC (European Academies Science Advisory Council) and ESF (European Science Foundation), President of the Portuguese Electrochemical Society (co-founder of this Society and of its journal), member of the Higher Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (Portugal), member of External Evaluation Commissions of various Universities, and of scientific and advisory NATO panels. He is the Director of the PhD Program on “Catalysis and Sustainability” (CATSUS) and the Coordinator of the scientific area of “Synthesis, Molecular Structure and Chemical Analysis” (IST).
His research Group on Coordination and Organometallic Chemistry, Molecular Electrochemistry, Synthesis and Catalysis, addresses the activation of small molecules (e.g., functionalization of alkanes under mild conditions) with industrial, environmental or biological significance, including metal-mediated synthesis and catalysis, crystal engineering and self-assembly of polynuclear and supramolecular structures, complexes with bioactivity, high pressure gas reactions, molecular electrochemistry of coordination compounds (redox potential-structure relationships and induction of reactivity by electron-transfer), and theoretical studies.
He was the Chairman or member of organizing/scientific committees of ca. 40 international conferences or schools, including the XXV International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (XXV ICOMC, Lisbon, 2012). Editor of the silver/gold Jubilee ICOMC celebratory book “Advances in Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis” (J. Wiley, ISBN: 9781118510148). He has been awarded the Madinabeitia-Lourenço Prize (Spanish Royal Chemical Society) and other prizes for the excellence and productivity of his research. He has supervised over 85 PhD or MSc students and Post-Doc Fellows, edited 3 books, authored another one, (co-)authored ca. 600 research publications (including 75 chapters in books or reviews), 33 patents, 510 conference communications, and presented 90 invited lectures at international conferences. His work has received ca. 11,000 citations, h-index = 48 (ISI Web of Knowledge).