Philip Jessop, Chair
Queen's University, Canada
Dr. Philip Jessop, FRSC, is the Canada Research Chair of Green Chemistry at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada and the Technical Director of GreenCentre Canada. As a professor at the University of California-Davis (1996-2003) and since then at Queen’s, he has studied green solvents and the chemistry of CO2 and H2. He invented the concept of switchable solvents and has developed many other CO2-switchable materials. Distinctions include the Eni Award for New Frontiers for Hydrocarbons (2013), Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada (2013), the Canadian Green Chemistry & Engineering Award (2012), and the NSERC Polanyi Award (2008). He has chaired two international conferences and helped create GreenCentre Canada, a National Centre of Excellence for the commercialization of green chemistry technologies.
Buxing Han, Associate editor
Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Professor Buxing Han received his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1988, and did postdoctoral research from 1989 to 1991 at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He has been a professor at the Institute of Chemistry, CAS since 1993.
His research interests include physicochemical properties of green solvent systems and applications of green solvents in green chemistry. He has published more than 500 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, such as Science, Acc. Chem. Res., Nat. Commun., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Chem. Eur. J., Chem. Commun., Green Chem., ChemSusChem, J. Phys. Chem. B, Langmuir, and has presented more than 100 plenary and invited lectures at different conferences. The published papers have been cited more than 16000 times.
He is an elected Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, former Chairman of IUPAC Subcommittee on Green Chemistry, Titular Member of Division III, IUPAC.
Chao-Jun Li, Associate editor
McGill University, Canada
ORCiD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3859-8824
Dr. Chao-Jun Li received his Ph.D. at McGill University (1992) and spent 1992-94 as a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. He was an Assistant (1994), Associate (1998) and Full Professor (2000) at Tulane University (US). Since 2003, he has been a Canada Research Chair and E. B. Eddy Chair at McGill University. He serves as the Director of NSERC CREATE (Center) for Green Chemistry and the Co-Director of the FQRNT Center for Green Chemistry/Catalysis. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Chemical Institute of Canada, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He was listed as one of the World Most Influential Scientific Minds by Thomson Reuters (2014 and 2015).
Elsje Alessandra Quadrelli, Associate Editor
CNRS and ESCPE Lyon, France
ORCiD http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8606-1183
Alessandra is CNRS director of research in the “Surface organometallic chemistry” team of the C2P2 laboratory in Lyon (France). Her research in the C2P2 unit, under triple tutelage CNRS CPE and Université de Lyon 1, focuses on gaining molecular understanding of the interaction between organometallic precursors and solid surfaces, such as silica and more recently, metal organic frameworks and 2D supports, in route to heterogeneous catalysts and functional materials. As chairwoman of the Sustanability Chair of Chemical, Physics and Electronic Engineering School CPE Lyon, she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses an organizes the biyearly international conference “CO2 Forum” on large scale carbon dioxide utilisations”.
She has coauthored over 65 papers, among which 2 reviews, 2 book chapters and 3 patents and has edited 1 book. She serves as referee and evaluator in several French and European instances.
François Jérôme
University of Poitiers, France
ORCiD 0000-0002-8324-0119
François Jerome received his PhD degree in chemistry from the University of Burgundy in 2000 in the group of Prof. R. Guilard. Then, he moved as a postdoc to the University of California, Davis in the group of Prof. K. M. Smith followed by a second postdoctoral position at the University of Rennes 1 under the guidance of Prof. P. H. Dixneuf, where he worked on ruthenium-catalyzed reactions. In 2002, he joined the CNRS as a permanent researcher in the Laboratoire de Catalyse en Chimie Organique located at the University of Poitiers. In 2011, he was promoted as a CNRS research director at the Institut de Chimie des Milieux et Matériaux de Poitiers. In 2015, he created the research federation INCREASE, hosted by the CNRS, gathering scientists from academia working together with chemical companies on the design of sustainable chemicals. He is now deputy of the Institut de Chimie des Milieux et Matériaux de Poitiers, member of the executive committee of the French division of Catalysis and chairman of the International Symposium on Green Chemistry (ISGC); editions 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019. His main research interests concern the development of technologies capable of activating and converting concentrated feed of renewable polyols (glycerol, mono- and polysaccharides) to specialty chemicals.
Martina Peters
Bayer AG, Germany
Martina Peters studied Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University in Germany and at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. She finished her PhD with Prof. Walter Leitner at RWTH Aachen University in 2008 and continued as PostDoc at the CAT Catalytic Center at RWTH Aachen. In 2010 she joined Bayer Technology Services as project manager, focusing on chemical utilization of CO2 as C1-building block for polymers. In 2012 she became head of “Chemical Catalysis” at Bayer Technology Services, a team providing chemical expertise for different areas of application within Bayer. Since mid-2014 Martina has been a senior strategist at Bayer AG in the area of Technology and Manufacturing Strategy. In her free time she enjoys doing sports, especially mountain biking.
Helen Sneddon
GlaxoSmithKline, UK
ORCiD http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1042-7692
Dr Helen Sneddon read Natural Sciences at Christ’s College, Cambridge University, and stayed at Cambridge to complete her PhDin organic chemistry, on beta-keto-dithianes and their application to the synthesis of natural products, with Professor Steven V. Ley. After postdoctoral work on the asymmetric catalytic chemistry of Palladium (II) with Professor Larry Overman at the University of California, Irvine, she joined GlaxoSmithKline at Stevenage, UK in 2007 as a medicinal chemist, working on respiratory medicines. In late 2011 she founded GSK’s Green Chemistry Performance Unit, a team she continues to lead, looking at improving the environmental sustainability of research and development, and the routes arising from it. She was made Honorary Professor of Sustainable Chemistry at the University of Nottingham in August 2014. She has particular interests in solvent and reagent selection and the development of more efficient transformations.
Keiichi Tomishige
Tohoku University, Japan
ORCiD 0000-0003-1264-8560
Keiichi Tomishige received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from Graduate School of Science, Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo. During his Ph.D. course in 1994, he moved to Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo as a research associate. In 1998, he became a lecturer, and then he moved to Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba as a lecturer in 2001. Since 2004 he has been an associate professor, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba. Since 2010, he is a professor, School of Engineering, Tohoku University. His research interests are the development of heterogeneous catalysts for 1) production of biomass-derived chemicals, 2) direct synthesis of organic carbonates from CO2 and alcohols, 3) steam reforming of biomass tar.
Rajender Varma
US Environmental Protection Agency, USA
ORCiD http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9731-6228
Rajender S. Varma, (H-Index 92, listed among ‘Most Cited Researchers’ by Thomson Reuters 2016), was born in India (Ph.D., Delhi University 1976). After postdoctoral research at Robert Robinson Laboratories, Liverpool, U.K., he was faculty member at Baylor College of Medicine and Sam Houston State University prior to joining Sustainable Technology Division at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1999 with adjunct appointment at Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. He has over 40 years of research experience in management of multidisciplinary technical programs and is extensively involved in sustainable aspects of chemistry that includes photocatalysis, synthesis, environmental sciences, and development of environmentally benign synthetic methods using alternate energy input using microwaves, ultrasound, mechanochemistry, etc.; efficient technologies for greener remediation of contaminants; and environmental sciences. Lately, he is focused on greener approaches to assembly of nanophotocatalysts and sustainable applications of magnetically retrievable nanophotocatalysts in benign media. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of several international journals and has published over 455 scientific papers and been awarded 15 U.S. Patents.
Tao Zhang
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Professor Tao Zhang received his PhD in 1989 from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). After one year in University of Birmingham as a post-doctoral fellow, he joined DICP again in 1990 where he was promoted to a full professor in 1995. He was the director-general of DICP from 2007 to 2016. His research interests are mainly focused on the catalytic conversion of biomass and single-atom catalysis. He has won many important awards, such as the National Invention Prize, Distinguished Award of CAS, Excellent Scientist Award of Chinese Catalysis Society, Zhou Guangzhao Award, and HLHL Prize. Prof Tao Zhang is the author or co-author of more than 400 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 110 patents. He was elected as an academician of Chinese academy of Sciences in 2013 and was appointed as the vice president of Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2016.
