Speakers & Programme

Invited speakers at ISACS6 include:

Takazo Aida

Dr. Aida started his academic carrier in the University of Tokyo in 1984 and was promoted to full professor in 1996.  His research interests include all aspects of supramolecular chemistry and materials science.  He has received many awards such as ACS and CSJ Awards in 2009, Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2010, Humboldt Research Award and Fujihara Award in 2011.

Harry Anderson

Harry L. Anderson studied for his PhD with Professor J. K. M. Sanders (Cambridge) and did postdoctoral work with Professor F. Diederich (ETH Zurich). He has led a research greoup in Oxford since 1995. His research reflects a fascination with the interplay between electronic delocalization, supramolecular architecture and function.

Matthew Francis

Prof. Matthew B. Francis received his Ph.D. degree in 1999 working with Prof. Eric Jacobsen at Harvard University. He then received a Miller Postdoctoral Fellowship to study materials chemistry with Prof. Jean M. J. Fréchet at the University of California, Berkeley. Matt joined the UC Berkeley Chemistry Department as a faculty member in 2001, and was promoted to a tenured position in 2007. He also holds a faculty position in the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has been the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, the GlaxoSmithKline Young Investigator Award, the Noyce Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and the University Distinguished Teaching Award.

Philip Gale

Phil Gale is Professor of Supramolecular Chemistry and Head of the School of Chemistry at the University of Southampton.  His research interests focus on the supramolecular chemistry of anionic species and in particular the selective recognition, sensing and lipid bilayer transport of anions.  He is the author or co-author of over 170 publications (h-index 50) and has won a number of research prizes including a Society/Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines Young Investigator Award (2004), the Bob Hay Lectureship (RSC UK Macrocycles and Supramolecular Chemistry Group - 2004), a 2005 Corday-Morgan medal and prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry and a 2010 JSPS Invitation Fellowship.

Wenping Hu

Wenping Hu obtained his Ph.D degree in Institute of Chemistry (1999), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). As a research fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation he worked in Osaka Univ. and Stuttgart Univ. for 4 years. After that as a research associate he worked in Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT, Japan). Then, as a permanent staff member he joined in Institute of Chemistry, CAS. Now, he is a Professor of Institute of Chemistry (CAS), and is focusing on Molecular Electronics and has ?180 refereed publications with citation>2,200 times.

Myongsoo Lee

Myongsoo Lee received his Ph.D. degree in Macromolecular Science from Case Western Reserve University in 1993. After short postdoctoral appointments at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he joined the Faculty of Chemistry at Yonsei University (1994) and then moved to Seoul National University in 2009, where he is presently Fellow Professor of Chemistry. He currently serves as Editorial Board Member for Chemistry an Asian Journal and J. Polym. Sci: Polym. Chem. His main research interests include self-assembling molecules, controlled supramolecular structures and peptide assembly.

David Leigh

David Leigh obtained his PhD in supramolecular organic chemistry from the University of Sheffield in 1987. After postdoctoral research at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa, David returned to the UK as a Lecturer at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in 1989. In 1998 he moved to the University of Warwick as Professor of Synthetic Chemistry and in 2001 he moved again to take up the Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh.

Leigh's research interests include the development of new strategies for interlocked molecule synthesis and the design and construction of artificial molecular motors and machines. He has won a number of major international awards including the 2007 Izatt-Christensen Award for Macrocyclic Chemistry, 2007 Descartes Prize and the 2007 Feynman Prize for Nanotechnology. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK's National Academy of Sciences, in 2009. David is the Associate Editor of Chemical Science responsible for Supramolecular Chemistry.

Stefan Matile

Stefan Matile received this PhD (1994) from the University of Zurich.  After a postdoc at Columbia University, New York (1994-1996), he joined Georgetown University, Washington DC, as an Assistant Professor.  In 1999, he moved to the University of Geneva, where he is currently Full Professor in the Department of Organic Chemistry and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) in Chemical Biology.  He is an ERC Advanced Investigator.

E. W. (Bert) Meijer

Bert Meijer is Distinguished University Professor in the Molecular Sciences and Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His main research interests are the design, synthesis, characterization, and possible applications of supramolecular architectures, with special emphasis on chirality, dendrimers, ?-conjugated oligomers and polymers, hydrogen bonding architectures, and their use in functional materials and biomedical applications. He published ~500 scientific papers and ~25 patents. From the research activities in his group, two companies are started: SyMO-Chem, a professional research contract company, and SupraPolix, focusing on supramolecular polymers. Since 2006, he is chairman of the External Scientific Board of Royal DSM. Bert Meijer is member of many editorial advisory boards, including Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, Chemical Communications, Angewandte Chemie and Journal of the American Chemical Society. Since 2005 he is Editor of Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry. Bert Meijer received numerous awards, including the 1999 Silver Medal of the Macro UK group, the Spinoza award in 2001, the ACS award for Polymer Chemistry in 2006, the AkzoNobel Science Award 2010 and he is member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science.

Colin Nuckolls

Colin Nuckolls received his B.S. in 1993 from UT Austin and his Ph. D. in 1998 from Columbia University.  He was an NIH post-doctoral fellow at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California until he joined the Faculty at Columbia University as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry in 2000.  In 2006, Nuckolls was promoted to the rank of Professor, and in July 2008 he assumed the Chairmanship of Columbia's Department of Chemistry.  His research focuses on integrating reaction chemistry into electrical devices.  He is a founding member of the Columbia University Nanoscience Center.  Amongst other awards, he is a recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship, a Beckman Young Investigator Award, a 2008 ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, and the 2009 ACS Baekeland Award.

Jian Pei

Professor Jian Pei joined in Peking University as an undergraduate student in 1985. He obtained his Ph. D. degree in Peking University in 1995, and then he moved to National University of Singapore as a postdoctor fellow. In 1998, he joined the group of Professor A. J. Heeger to study organic semiconducting materials for OLEDs, OFETs, and photovoltaics. From 2001, he has stayed in Peking University till now.

Julius Rebek, Jr.

Julius Rebek, Jr. is the Director of The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology at The Scripps Research Institute. He was born in Hungary and educated at the University of Kansas and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He held professorships at UCLA, the University of Pittsburgh and MIT before moving to La Jolla in 1996. His research interests include synthetic, self-replicating molecules, self-assembling systems, recognition phenomena and molecular behavior in small spaces.

Alan Rowan

Alan E. Rowan was made Professor and Head of Molecular Materials department of the IMM at the Radboud University Nijmegen (NL) in 2006. His research interests include the relationship between architecture and properties of catalytic and electronic systems.

Hanadi Sleiman

Hanadi Sleiman received her PhD from Stanford University under the guidance of Prof. L. McElwee-White. Following a CNRS postdoctoral stay in supramolecular chemistry with Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn at the Université Louis Pasteur in France, she joined the faculty of McGill University in 1999, where she is currently professor of chemistry and Dawson Scholar (McGill's Canada Research Chair).  Sleiman was named Cottrell Scholar of the Research Corporation in 2002.  She received the Principal's Prize (2002) and the Leo Yaffe Award (2004) for excellence in teaching, was named William Dawson Scholar in 2004, received the NSERC Discovery Accelerator Award in 2008, and the 2009 Strem Award of the Canadian Society for Chemistry.

Samuel Stupp

Professor Samuel Stupp has been a Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science, Chemistry, and Medicine member at Northwestern University since 1999. He is also the Director of Northwestern's Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine. Professor Stupp is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and fellow of the American Physical Society and the Materials Research Society.

Ben Zhong Tang

Ben Zhong Tang received his Ph.D. degree from Kyoto University and is now Chair Professor of Chemistry at The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. He is serving as Science News Contributor to Noteworthy Chemistry (ACS), Editor-in-Chief of Polymer Chemistry Series (RSC), and Editor of Polymer Bulletin (Springer).

Xi Zhang

Dr. Xi Zhang is a full professor of the Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is senior editor of Langmuir and has served as Editorial Board Members of several journals, including Chemical Communications and Polymer Chemistry. In 2007, he was selected as a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since 2010, he is vice president of Chinese Chemical Society. His research interests are focused on supramolecular assembly and polymer thin films.

 

Other high profile speakers include:

• Matthew Francis, University of California, Berkeley, USA