SICC10 | 16 - 19 Dec 2018

Tanja Weil

Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research

Tanja Weil studied chemistry (1993–1998) at the TU Braunschweig (Germany) and the University of Bordeaux I (France) and completed her PhD at the MPI for Polymer Research under the supervision of K. Müllen. In 2003 she received the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society. From 2002 to 2008 she managed different leading positions at Merz Pharmaceuticals GmbH (Frankfurt) from Section Head Medicinal Chemistry to Director of Chemical Research and Development. In 2008 she accepted an Associate Professor position at the National University of Singapore. Tanja Weil joined Ulm University as Director of the Institute of Organic Chemistry III / Macromolecular Chemistry in 2010. In 2012 Tanja Weil has been awarded the ERC Synergy Grant together with Fedor Jelezko and Martin Plenio. Her current scientific interests include the synthesis of quantum materials, customized and adaptive macromolecules for precision sensing and therapy as well as polymeric catalysts and hybrid membranes that outperform existing materials. Prof. Dr. Tanja Weil joined the Max Planck Society in 2017 as one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research heading the department “Synthesis of Macromolecules”.

Hanadi Sleiman

McGill University

Canada Research Chair in DNA Nanoscience, Tier I (2013-present)
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of the American Chemical Society (2010-pres.)
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Bioconjugate Chemistry (2014-pres.)
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, ChemBiochem (2010)
Swiss Chemical Society Lectureship, 2013
E. Gordon Young Lectureship, Chemical Institute of Canada, Toronto, 2012
Strem Award for Pure or Applied Inorganic Chemistry, Canadian Society for Chemistry, 2009
William Dawson Scholar Award, McGill University (2009-2013)
Fellow, Canadian Institute of Advanced Research, Nanoelectronics Program (2009-2012)
NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement 2008-2011)
Leo Yaffe Award for excellence in teaching, McGill University, Faculty of Science, 2005
Principal’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching, McGill University, Assistant Professor Category, 2003
Research Corporation (USA), Cottrell Scholar Award for excellence in research and teaching (2002)

Member, NSERC CREATE Bionanomachines
Member, Centre for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures (CSACS)
Member, CIHR Drug Design Training Program (DDTP)
Member, Pharmaqam, Quebec

Natalia Shustova

University of South Carolina

Education
B.S., 2002, Moscow State University
M.S., 2004, Moscow State University
Ph.D., 2005, Physical Chemistry, Moscow State University
Ph.D., 2010, Inorganic Chemistry, Colorado State University

Research Interests
Research in her group will focus on materials for sustainable energy conversion, sensing, switches, and artificial biomimetic systems. Development of these materials will involve the synthesis and characterization of the porous (e.g., metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent-organic frameworks (COFs)) and graphitic materials. Specifically, three main directions related to 1) morphology control of the active layer of a bulk heterojunction solar cell, 2) light harvesting and energy transfer in well-defined self-assemblies, and 3) design of artificial scaffolds mimicking protein behavior will be developed.

The Active Layer Morphology Control in Organic Photovoltaics. Increase of efficiency in the currently used bulk heterojunction solar cells, the realistic candidates for an efficient photo-energy conversion, can be achieved through the precise control of the active layer morphology at the nanoscale level. The ultimate goal of the research in my group is to design new materials that can be used as active layer components, which will lead to efficiency enhancement of solar cells.

Light Harvesting and Controllable Energy Transfer in Well-Defined Self-Assemblies. Light harvesting chromophore assemblies with an ability to control Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) processes are required for the preparation of the next generation organic photovoltaics, molecular-scale digital switches, and sensors coupled to FRET. To address these issues, a new strategy to control energy transfer processes in self-assembled well-defined arrays of chromophores with integrated photochromic linkers will be developed.

Liu Bin

National University of Singapore

Education
• Ph.D. in Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore (2001)
• M.S. in Chemistry, Nanjing University, P. R. China (1998)
• Bachelor in Chemistry, Nanjing University, P. R. China (1995)

Professional Experiences
• Department Head, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (2017-present)
• Professor, National University of Singapore (2016-present)
• Provost’s Chair professor, National University of Singapore (2016-present)
• Dean’s Chair professor, National University of Singapore (2014-2016)
• Associate Professor, National University of Singapore (2010–2016)
• Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore (2005–2010)
• Assistant Researcher, University of California at Santa Barbara (2003–2005)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California at Santa Barbara (2001–2003)
• Research Associate & Research Fellow, Institute of Materials Research & Engineering, Singapore (2000–2001)

Awards & Honors
• Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics (2017)
• Fellow of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore (2017)
• President’s Technology Award (2016)
• Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (2016)
• The World’s Most Influential Minds; Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers in Materials Science by Thomson Reuters (2015)
• Materials in Society Lectureship, Elsevier (2015)
• Singapore National Research Foundation Investigatorship (2014)
• The World’s Most Influential Minds (Highly cited researchers by Thomson Reuters 2014)
• Singapore National Institute of Chemistry (SNIC)-BASF Materials Award (2014)
• Invited Lecturer of Asia Excellence, Japanese Polymer Society (2013)
• Asia Rising Star, 15th Asia Chemical Congress (2013)
• National University of Singapore Young Researcher Award (2013)
• National University of Singapore Faculty Young Researcher Award (2012)
• L’Oreal-Singapore Women in Science National Fellowship (2011)
• Defense Research and Innovative Program Award (2010)
• Singapore National Science and Technology Young Scientist Award (2008)
• National University of Singapore Young Investigator Award (2006)

Lee Pooi See

Nanyang Technological University

Prof Lee received her Ph.D. degree from National University of Singapore in 2001. She joined Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd (now Globalfoundries) in research and technology development department from 2001-2003. She is a recipient of the 2001 Norman Hackerman Young Author award presented by the Electrochemical Society, USA. In January 2004, she joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University as an Assistant Professor.She was promoted to tenured Associate Professor in 2009. In Sept 2015, she was promoted to Full Professor.

She has authored and co-authored many publications in the field of nanomaterials for energy and electronics applications. She holds more than 30 patents filed/provisional applications at present. She served as the Sub-Dean/Asst. Chair (undergraduate) in MSE from July 2004-2008, Associate Chair (Research) in June 2012-2014, and Associate Chair (Faculty) in March 2014. She was awarded the National Day Awards, Public Administration Medal (Bronze) in 2014 and is a recipient of the prestigious NRF Investigatorship, Class 2015.

She is a member of Materials Research Society and she serves as the editorial board member of Advanced Energy Materials, Scientific Reports and Frontier. She is interested in synthesizing innovative nanomaterials, and harnessing its multi-functionality through understanding the structural-property characteristics. She has developed high energy capacitors, energy saving electrochromic coatings, novel transparent conductors, flexible and stretchable devices. She is keen in advancing the frontier of green nanotechnology and to translate research outcomes into real solutions.

Matthew S. Sigman

University of Utah

Zhixiang Yu

Peking University, China

Zhi-Xiang Yu obtained his BS (Wuhan University, 1987-1991), MS (Peking University, 1994-1997, with Prof. Qingzhong Zhou) and Ph.D. (the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, 1997-2001, with Prof. Yun-Dong Wu). After a three-year postdoctoral study at University of California, Los Angeles (with Prof. M. Mascal and Prof. K. N. Houk), he joined the faculty of Peking University as an associate professor in 2004 and was promoted to a full professor in 2008. With a research philosophy of “Chem is try computationally and experimentally”, his laboratory focuses on application of computational and synthetic organic chemistry to study reaction mechanisms, develop new reactions, and apply the new reactions discovered from his group to synthesize natural and non-natural products. Selected recognition and awards from Prof. Zhi-Xiang Yu include: Chang-Jiang Professorship, Ministry of Education, China, 2015；Advisor of the Best 100 Ph.D Theses in China, 2012, Ministry of Education, China；Chinese Chemical Society-Sci Finder Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 2011; Chinese Chemical Society-Physical Organic Chemistry Award, 2011；Chinese Chemical Society-BASF Award, 2011；The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China, 2008; The Young Chemist Award, the Chinese Chemical Society & the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2008.

Yongfang Li

Institute of Chemistry, CAS, China

William Dichtel

Northwestern University, USA

Wenping Hu

Tianjin University, China

Shunsuke Chiba

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Kian Ping Loh

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Kenitchiro Itami

Nagoya University, Japan

Kenichiro Itami (born in 1971) received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University under the guidance of Prof. Yoshihiko Ito. He began his academic career at Kyoto University as an Assistant Professor in 1998, then moved to Nagoya University to become an Associate Professor in 2005, and promoted to Full Professor in 2008. Since 2012, he is the Director of the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) in Nagoya University. In 2013, he was selected as the Director of JST-ERATO Itami Molecular Nanocarbon Project.
The ultimate goal of the Itami group is to develop game-changing molecules, such as problem-solving functional molecules (“transformative molecules”) and beautiful molecules. With such goal in mind, the work of Itami group has centered on catalyst-enabling synthetic chemistry with broad directions including molecular nanocarbon materials, C-H activation catalysts, medicinal chemistry, and plant chemical biology.
>300 papers (h-index 60), >90 patent application, >350 plenary/invited lecturers

Representative awards and honors:
The Guthikonda Lecturer, Stanford University (2018), The Roland K. Pettit Centennial Lecturer, University of Texas, Austin (2018), CSJ Award for Creative Work, The Chemical Society of Japan (2018), Highly Cited Researchers 2017, Clarivate Analytics (2017), ICI Distinguished Lecturer, University of Calgary, Canada (2017), The Holger Erdtman Lecture, KTH, Sweden (2016), The Nagase Prize (2016), Treat B. Johnson Lecture, Yale University (2016), Ta-Shue Chou Lectureship Award, Academia Sinica (2016), R. C. Fuson Visiting Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2015), Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, American Chemical Society (2015), Swiss Chemical Society Lectureship Award (2015), Nankai University Lectureship Award (2014), The Aldrich Lectureship Award, Emory University (2014), The JSPS Prize (2014), Novartis Chemistry Lectureship Award (2013), Mukaiyama Award (2013), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK (2012), German Innovation Award (2012), Novartis-MIT Lectureship Award, MIT, USA (2012)

Jeff Bode

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

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Ib Chorkendorff

Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Ib Chorkendorff is Professor in Heterogeneous Catalysis at the Technical University of Denmark. He got his PhD in 1985 in experimental surface science from Odense University, Denmark. After working as a postdoc with Prof. John T. Yates Jr. at University of Pittsburgh, USA, he was employed in 1987 as Associate Professor at DTU to establish an experimental activity investigating fundamental aspects of heterogeneous catalysis. He became full Professor of Heterogeneous Catalysis at Department of Physics and Department of Chemical Engineering in 1999 and was Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Interdisciplinary Catalysis (ICAT) 1998-2005. From 2005-2016 he was director of Danish National Research Foundation Center for Individual Nanoparticle Functionality (CINF) at Department of physics at DTU. From 2016 he has been Director of The Villum Center for the Science of Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals (V-SUSTAIN). He has authored or co-authored more than 320 scientific papers, 17 patents and a textbook “Concepts of Modern Catalysis and Kinetics”. His research activities focus on investigating fundamental aspects of surface reactions and finding new catalysts for improving energy production/conversion and environmental protection. He is the co-founder of three start-up companies RENCAT APS, HPNOW APS and Spectroinlets APS.

Hui-Ming Cheng

Institute of Metal Research of CAS, China

Hong Cai Zhou

Texas A&M University, USA

Harry L. Anderson

Oxford University, UK

Harry Anderson completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge UK with Jeremy Sanders and did postdoctoral work at ETH Zurich, Switzerland with François Diederich. He has led an independent research group at the University of Oxford since 1995. His work includes the investigation of porphyrin-based molecular wires, cyclodextrin polyrotaxanes, insulated molecular wires, encapsulated π-systems, template-directed synthesis, multivalent cooperativity, nanorings, polyynes, nonlinear optical chromophores and functional dyes. His research group has extended the frontiers of macrocyclic chemistry by preparing the largest synthetic macrocycles and the largest known Hückel-aromatic rings. He was elected to become a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013.

Hans-Peter Steinrüeck

Hans-Peter Steinrueck

University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Hans-Peter Steinrück received his PhD in physics at TU Graz 1985, was postdoc at Stanford University 1985/86, received his Habilitation at TU München 1992, and became Professor of Physics at Würzburg University in 1993. Since 1998, he holds a chair of Physical Chemistry at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He was Guest Professor at USTC/Hefei in China, holds a honorary doctorate degree from Szeged University in Hungary, is member of the European Academy of Sciences, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Academia Europaea, Fellow of APS and AAAS, and received the AVS Medard W. Welch Award in 2017. His research focusses in surface and interface science, from ionic liquids, porphyrins, liquid metals and liquid organic hydrogen carriers to chemically modified graphene. He published 335 peer-reviewed papers.
https://www.chemistry.nat.fau.eu/steinrueck-group/

David Leigh

University of Manchester, UK

Bert Sels

University of Leuven, Belgium

Susumu Kitagawa

Kyoto University, Japan

Kitagawa received his Ph. D. at Kyoto University. He is now distinguished professor, Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study (KUIAS), and Director of Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) at Kyoto University. His main research fields are materials chemistry based on coordination compounds, in particular, chemistry of coordination space, and his current research interests are centered on synthesis and properties of porous coordination polymers/metal-organic frameworks. He received the Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry Award (2007), Humboldt Research Award (2008), The Chemical Society of Japan Award (2009), Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate (Chemistry) (2010), The Medal with Purple Ribbon, Japanese Government (2011), The RSC de Gennes Prize (2013), The 10th Leo Esaki Prize (2013). Japan Academy Award (2016), ACS Fred Basolo Medal (2016), Chemistry for Solvay Future Award (2017).

Samuel Achilefu

Washington University in St. Louis, USA

Klaus Müllen

Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany

Hajo Freund

Hans Joachim Freund

Fritz-Haber Institute of Max-Planck Institute, Germany

Prof Hans‐Joachim Freund is a scientific member and director at the Fritz‐Haber‐Institut der Max‐Planck‐Gesellschaft in Berlin where he is head of the Department of Chemical Physics. The department is dedicated to the study of model catalysts, applying a large number of techniques and instruments, some of which were newly developed within the department to investigate oxide surfaces and oxide metal interfaces.

He serves as Adjunct Professor at five universities in Germany and UK. He received awards in Europe, the US and China. He is a member of six Academies including the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds three honorary Doctorates. He received both, the Leibnitz Award of the German Science Foundation as well as the Ziegler Award of the German Chemical Society. He also received the Gaede‐Langmuir Award of the American Vacuum Society and is the recipient of the 2015 Michel Boudart for the Advancement of Catalysis by the North American Catalysis Society and the European Federation of Catalysis Societies.

He is Fellow of the American Physical Society and has published about 800 scientific papers with more than 40.000 citations and given more than 750 invited talks. He has held a number of named lectureships around the world. He has educated more than 130 PhD students and collaborated with more than 80 postdoctoral associates.

Barry Trost

Stanford University, USA

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1941, he obtained his B.A. degree at the University of Pennsylvania (1962) and his Ph.D. degree at MIT (1965). He moved to the University of Wisconsin where he became Professor of Chemistry in 1969 and subsequently the Vilas Research Professor in 1982. He joined Stanford as Professor of Chemistry in 1987 and Tamaki Professor in 1990. Among his awards, are the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry (1977), the ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (1981), the Baekeland Award (1981), ACS Guenther Award (1990), the Janssen Prize (1990), the ASSU Graduate Teaching Award (1991), the ACS Roger Adams Award (1995), the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (1998), the ACS Herbert C. Brown Award (1999), the Belgian Organic Synthesis Symposium Elsevier Award (2000), the Nichols Medal (2000), the Yamada Prize (2001), the ACS Cope Award (2004), the Nagoya Medal (2008), Ulysses Medal (2013), Noyori Prize (2013), August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann Denkmuenze (2014), and Tetrahedron Prize (2014). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Sciences (1982) and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1980).

Atsuhiro Osuka

Kyoto University, Japan

Atsuhiro Osuka received his Ph D degree from Kyoto University in 1982 on photochemistry of epoxyquinones. In 1979, he started an academic career at the Department of Chemistry of Ehime University as an assistant professor. In 1984, he moved to the Department of Chemistry of Kyoto University, where he became a professor of chemistry in 1996. His research interests cover many aspects of synthetic approaches toward artificial photosynthesis and development of porphyrin-related compounds with novel structures, electronic systems, and functions.

Call for papers	05 February 2018
Deadline for Abstract Submission	(29 June 2018) Extended to 30 July 2018
Notification of Acceptance	16 July 2018
Deadline for Presenting Authors Registration	05 October 2018
Deadline for Early Bird Registration	05 October 2018

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Barry Trost

Hans Joachim Freund

Klaus Müllen

Samuel Achilefu

Susumu Kitagawa

Bert Sels

David Leigh

Hanadi Sleiman

Hans-Peter Steinrueck

Harry L. Anderson

Hong Cai Zhou

Hui-Ming Cheng

Ib Chorkendorff

Jeff Bode

Kenitchiro Itami

Kian Ping Loh

Lee Pooi See

Liu Bin

Matthew S. Sigman

Natalia Shustova

Shunsuke Chiba

Tanja Weil

Wenping Hu

William Dichtel

Yongfang Li

Zhixiang Yu

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