17th International conference on materials chemistry (MC17)

Kristi Anseth is a Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Associate Faculty Director of the BioFrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She currently holds the Tisone Professorship and is a Distinguished Professor. Dr. Anseth came to CU-Boulder after earning her B.S. degree from Purdue University, her Ph.D. degree from the University of Colorado, and completing post-doctoral research at MIT as an NIH fellow. Her research interests lie at the interface between biology and engineering where she designs new biomaterials for applications in drug delivery and regenerative medicine. Dr. Anseth’s research group has published over 400 peer-reviewed manuscripts, and she has trained more than 150 graduate students and postdoctoral associates. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (2009), the National Academy of Medicine (2009), the National Academy of Sciences (2013), the National Academy of Inventors (2016) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2019).  Most recently, she received the L’Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science Award in the Life Sciences (2020).  Dr. Anseth has served on the Board of Directors and as President of the Materials Research Society, Board of Directors for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Board of Governors for Acta Materialia, Inc, Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Gordon Research Conferences, the NIH Advisory Council for NIBIB, and as Chair of the NAE US Frontiers of Engineering meetings and NAE Bioengineering Section.

Svetlana Mintova’s research focuses on porous materials with expertise in synthesis of zeolites, advanced characterizations, and their applications in catalysis, separation, chemical sensors, membranes, and biomedicine. She has been recognized for the novelty and originality of her multidisciplinary research in nanosized zeolites, receiving awards such as the Baron Axel Cronstedt Award from the European Zeolite Associations Federation (FEZA), the Donald Breck Award from the International Zeolite Association (IZA), the “Le Prix La Recherche Chimie” in France, the Honorary Award from the French Zeolite Association  (GFZ), the Shandong International Science and Technology Cooperation Award (Shandong) and Qingdao Award in recognition for social and research contributions (Qingdao) in China. She serves as a Visiting Professor at China University of Petroleum (UPC), President of the International Zeolite Association (IZA), and Chair of the Synthesis Commission of the IZA.
She is an Associate Editor of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers (RSC) and Editor of Microporous Mesoporous Materials (Elsevier), and she has received the ERC Advanced Grant for 2022.
She is selected to carry the Olympic flame for Paris 2024, symbolizing academic excellence and sporting spirit.

Thuc-Quyen Nguyen is the Director of the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids and professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Nguyen received her B.S. (1997), M.S. (1998), and Ph.D. (2001) degrees in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles. From 2001-2004, she was a research associate in the Department of Chemistry and the Nanocenter at Columbia University working on molecular self-assembly, nanoscale characterization and devices. She also spent time at IBM Research Center at T. J. Watson (Yorktown Heights, NY) working with Richard Martel and Phaedon Avouris on molecular electronics. She joined the faculty of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at UCSB in 2004.
Her research interests are doping and charge transport in organic semiconductors, bioelectronics, and device physics of organic solar cells, ratchets, transistors, and photodetectors.
She is co-authored over 310 publications and 3 book chapters that received over 38,000 citations (H-index: 100). Recognition for her research includes 2005 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 2006 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2008 Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award, 2009 Alfred Sloan Research Fellows, 2010 National Science Foundation American Competitiveness and Innovation Fellows, 2015 Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Award, 2016 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019 Hall of Fame - Advanced Materials, 2019 Beaufort Visiting Scholar, St John’s College, Cambridge University, 2015-2019 World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds; Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers in Materials Science by Thomson Reuters and Clarivate Analytics, 2019 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2021 & 2022 Women in Materials Science by Advanced Materials, 2023 Wilhelm Exner Medal from Austria, 2023 Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors, 2023 de Gennes Prize in Materials Chemistry from the Royal Society of Chemistry, and 2023 Elected Member of the US National Academy of Engineering.

Matthew Rosseinsky obtained a degree and a D. Phil in Chemistry from the University of Oxford in 1990. He was a Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff at A.T.&T. Bell Laboratories then in 1992 was appointed University Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Oxford. In 1999 he moved to the University of Liverpool as Professor of Inorganic Chemistry. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2008, and was awarded the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society in 2011. In 2013 he became a Royal Society Research Professor. He was awarded the inaugural de Gennes Prize for Materials Chemistry (a lifetime achievement award open internationally) by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2009, the C.N.R. Rao Award of the Chemical Research Society of India in 2010 and gave the Muetterties Lectures at UC Berkeley and Lee Lectures at the University of Chicago in 2017, and the Davison Lectures at MIT in 2022. He was awarded the Davy Medal of the Royal Society in 2017. In 2019, he gave the Flack Memorial Lectures of the Swiss Crystallographic Society. In 2020, he became an Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Research Society of India. In 2022, he gave the Davison Lectures at MIT, and was awarded the Basolo Medal of the American Chemical Society Chicago Section. He received the 2023 Eni Energy Frontiers Award for the digital design and discovery of next-generation energy materials from the President of Italy. He was a member of the governing Council of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council from 2015 - 2019. Matthew’s work focuses on the synthetic chemistry, design and discovery of solid-state materials, which have applications ranging from catalysis to superconductivity. His group is developing new methods of identifying functional materials, emphasising the integration of experiment with computational methods spanning physical and computer science. His work has been characterised by extensive collaboration with many academic and industrial colleagues.

Nicola Gasparini is a lecturer in Chemistry at Imperial College London. Nicola is a member of the Class of 2020 World Economic Forum Young Scientists and the Centre for Processable Electronics. He made major scientific contributions to the photophysical properties of organic semiconductors, resulting in over 130 publications. His research interests are in organic and perovskite semiconductors, with particular interests in charge transport and recombination processes in solar cells and photodetectors. He received national and international prizes, including the 2024 Materials Chemistry Early Career Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the 2023 Junior PRISM category.

Matt holds a Chair in Sustainable Biomaterials at the University of Manchester, UK, in the Department of Chemistry and Manchester Institute of Biotechnology. Matt’s multidisciplinary research group focusses on developing biomaterials for Biotechnology and Healthcare. He has made significant contributions in the areas of cryobiology for the delivery of cells/tissue, and glycobiology in new biosensors. Matt was a Royal Society Industry Fellow with Cytiva (2019-2023), holds an ERC Consolidator Grant, and is co-founder of the biotech spin-out Cryologyx Ltd. Matt has been awarded several RSC prizes including the Corday-Morgan, McBain, Dextra and MacroGroup Young Researcher’s medals, and a Horizon Prize.

Pooja graduated with a First Class Hons from Coventry University followed by a Ph. D. in Chemistry from the University of Warwick.
She did a series of post-doctoral researcher appointments (2005 – 2015) at Uppsala, Sweden, Bath and Huddersfield respectively. Pooja joined Loughborough as a Lecturer in 2015 and has since held a Royal Academy of Engineering Industry Fellowship. She is a Reader in Materials Modelling and currently holds a Royal Society Industry Fellowship with Echion Technologies LTD. Her research expertise is in advanced modelling of materials for batteries, nuclear decommissioning and solar technologies.  This includes surface and interactions at interfaces.

Grace Han received her PhD in 2015 at MIT under the guidance of Professor Timothy Swager. She then joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT as a postdoctoral associate with Professor Jeffrey Grossman. She is currently an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Brandeis University, and her group’s research focuses on developing molecular photoswitches and photochemistry for solar energy storage and optically-controlled catalyst recycling.
Grace has been awarded honors during her independent career, including 2022 AFOSR Young Investigator Award, 2022 NSF CAREER Award, 2022 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, 2023 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 2023 DFG Mercator Fellowship, 2023 DoD DURIP Award, and 2024 ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship Award.

Professor Jun Huang received his PhD from University of Stuttgart in 2008. After his postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology and ETH Zurich, he joined the University of Sydney as a permanent faculty in 2010, moving up the ranks to Professor at Sydney. Jun is the Domain Leader of Materials in Nanoscale at Sydney Nano, Sydney Nano CO2Zero Grand Challenge Champion, and the Academic Leader of University of Sydney – Zhejiang University Joint Lab on Sustainable Environment. His research is to develop emerging nanoporous catalysts and supported nanometal catalysts for more attractive, practical, and cleaner processes using in situ characterization techniques coupled with innovative reaction engineering. Jun has published over 230 journal publications in high-rank Journals. He has been awarded over AU$ 12m research grants and many prestigious awards including ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award, CCST-IChemE Carbon Capture Outstanding Achievement Award, Australia’s Most Innovative Engineer, and the Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence Outstanding Research. Jun is the Editor-in-Chief of Materials Today Sustainability, Editorial Group Member of National Science Review, and the Editorial Board member of other high-rank journals.

Julien Nicolas received his PhD degree in 2005 from the University Pierre and Marie Curie. After a postdoctoral position at the University of Warwick, he obtained in 2007 a permanent CNRS researcher position at Institut Galien Paris-Saclay and got promoted Director of Research at CNRS in 2016 and group leader in 2019. His current research activities lie in advanced macromolecular synthesis and in the design of innovative polymer-based nanomedicines, in particular polymer nanoparticles and polymer prodrug nanocarriers for anticancer therapy. He is (co)author of more than 125 peer review articles in international journals, 7 patents and 13 book chapters. He serves as Associate Editor for Chemistry of Materials (ACS) and is part of the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Macro Letters (ACS), Macromolecules (ACS) and Polymer Chemistry (RSC). He received the 2016 SCF/GFP award, the 2017 Polymer Chemistry Lectureship award, the 2017 Novacap Prize of the Academy of Science, the 2018 Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator Award and the Prix des Innovateurs de la Région Île-de-France in 2023.

Emily Pentzer is Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, USA where she is also a Presidential Impact Fellow. Her work addresses the design, synthesis, and application of composite polymer materials for energy related applications, converging synthesis and processing. Prof. Pentzer currently serves as the inaugural Editor in Chief of RSC Applied Polymers (since 2023) and is a member of the 3rd cohort of the New Voices program at the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

Felice Torrisi is a Senior Lecturer in Chemistry of 2D materials in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London, UK. He is an executive board member of the Centre for Processable Electronics the, Institute for Digital Molecular Design and Fabrication and the EPSRC E-Textile network. His research interests cover graphene and related two-dimensional materials for flexible electronics and photonics, with particular focus on energy, sensing, wearable electronics and bioelectronics. In his career, he received the Schlumberger Research Fellowship, the Parmee Prize for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise and the Harrison-Meldola award by the Royal Society of Chemistry. He co-autored more than 75 publications, receiving > 11000 citations, and is the co-founder of three start-ups in the area of graphene, printed electronics and electronic textiles. He contributed to the development of the Science and Technology roadmap for Graphene.

Minghui Yang, FRSC, is a Professor at Dalian University of Technology. He earned his M. Chem. degree from the University of Liverpool and completed his Ph.D. in Materials Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh in 2010 under Professor J. Paul Attfield. Following postdoctoral research at Cornell University with Professor Francis J. DiSalvo, he has received numerous awards including the National Overseas High-Level Talents (Youth Project) (2013) and the Zhejiang National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2019). With 263 publications in SCI journals and 21 patents, He leads the Solid State Functional Materials Lab at DUT and CAS. His research focuses on solid-state materials for catalysis and sensing.