Pierangelo Metrangolo, Chair
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Pierangelo Metrangolo (Lecce, 16 April 1972) is full professor at the Politecnico di Milano since 2011. He also holds a part-time position at the VTT-Technical Research Centre of Finland and from 2015 he is visiting professor at the Aalto University, Finland. He is Co-editor of Acta Crystallogr. B and sits in the Editorial Board of CrystEngComm and in the Editorial Advisory Board of Cryst. Growth Des.
He is author of 185 publications with 9266 citations (h-index: 49), 10 chapters in international books and holds 11 patents. He has given 45 invited lectures at national and international meeting and 26 invited seminars at universities and research institutes. He is currently Titular Member of the Physical and Biophysical Chemistry Division of the IUPAC. Since 2013 he is the holder of an European Research Council grant to carry with the project “FOLDHALO – Folding with Halogen Bonding”.
Susan Bourne, Associate editor
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Susan Bourne is the Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Cape Town. Her PhD, obtained at the University of Cape Town, was a study of organic inclusion compounds undertaken under the supervision of Professor Luigi Nassimbeni.
Her research interests include the application of physicochemical methods to inclusion compounds and crystal engineering of metal-organic materials - all with the aim of correlating solid-state structure with physical properties and reactivity. She has published over 120 papers and has supervised 20 postgraduate students. She is the chair of the Structural Chemistry Commission of the International Union of Crystallography, and is a Fellow of the University of Cape Town.
Christian Doonan, Associate editor
The University of Adelaide, Australia
Christian Doonan is Professor of chemistry at the University of Adelaide. He received his PhD at the University of Melbourne and carried out post-doctoral work with Professor Omar Yaghi at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research group focuses on the design and synthesis of Metal-organic Framework materials for application to biotechnology and catalysis.
Christian is a member of the international MOF commission and his research has been recognised through several awards including, an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship and a distinguished lectureship award from the Chemical Society of Japan.
Kwangyeol Lee, Associate editor
Korea University, Korea
Kwangyeol Lee is Professor of chemistry at Korea University. He graduated from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (1992) and obtained a PhD degree (1997) in Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign under the supervision of Professor John R. Shapley. After fulfilling his Korean military obligations he joined Korea University in 2003 as an Assistant Professor.
During his independent research career, he has studied nanocrystal growth, phase conversions in nanoscale as well as nanoparticle applications. He has contributed over 180 papers to the fields of Organometallic Chemistry and Nanochemistry. His current research efforts are focused on the development of synthetic methodologies for nanoscale materials and the development of nanotechnologies to support the environment by creating sustainable energy. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Lectureship Award (2007, The Chemical Society of Japan), Wiley-KCS Young Scholar Award (2009, The Korean Chemical Society) and the Excellent Research Award (2019, Inorganic Chemistry Division of The Korean Chemical Society).
C. Malla Reddy, Associate editor
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, India
Professor C. Malla Reddy (Hyderabad, India, 09 Feb 1975) received his PhD in Crystal Engineering in 2006 from the University of Hyderabad, and took up Post-Doctoral Research at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (2007 – 2008). He had been an Honorary Visiting Scientist to University of Bradford (2015-18) and a recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Mobility Grant, Distinguished Lectureship Award from the Chemical Society of Japan (2017) and Swarnajayanti Fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology, India. He is a Co-editor of Acta Crystallogr. B and served as an Associate Editor for RSC Advances in 2015-16. He served on the Local Organizing Committee of IUCr2017@Hyderabad, India.
His research group is engaged in understanding mechanical properties of organic solids, including pharmaceutical and optoelectronic crystals. Some of his well known contributions include the discovery of flexible elastic and plastic organic crystals, designing flexible crystals using Supramolecular Shape Synthons, etc. He has published over 90 research articles.
Dongfeng Xue, Associate editor
Multiscale Crystal Materials Research Center, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS, China
Dongfeng Xue is a Professor at the Multiscale Crystal Materials Research Center, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He received his PhD in inorganic chemistry at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, CAS, in 1998. Following postdoctoral studies at the Universität Osnabrück, University of Ottawa and the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, he was promoted to full professor in 2001 at Dalian University of Technology, China.
In 2011, he returned to Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry to assume his professorship in materials chemistry, as the director of State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization during 2015-2019. In 2020, he moved to Shandong University as the director of State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials. In 2021, he created Multiscale Crystal Materials Research Center at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology. His research interests focus on multiscale crystallization of inorganic matter for energy and optical applications. He has published more than 500 papers and book chapters, and holds around 20 patents. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Corresponding Member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (EAASH, Paris).
Aurora Cruz-Cabeza
Durham University, UK
Aurora joined the Chemistry Department at Durham University (Durham, UK) in 2022 where she leads a group of talented researchers in the area of Molecular Crystalline Materials and Crystallisation.
After obtaining her PhD from the University of Cambridge (2008), she worked at Pfizer and then held several postdoctoral positions at the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, the University of Amsterdam and Hofmann-La Roche. For nearly seven years, Aurora led a group in crystallisation in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Manchester. At Durham, Aurora continues her research in crystallisation and materials design, with a strong focus on understanding polymorphism, nucleation and crystal growth kinetics of pharmaceuticals.
Aurora has won several excellence prizes including the Best Chemistry Degree National Award in Spain (2002), the PANAlytical Thesis Prize in Physical Crystallography (2009) and the British Crystallographic Association Lecture Prize (2023). She has also been the recipient of competitive research fellowships such as the NWO VENI Talent Research Fellowship in the Netherlands (2011) and the Royal Society Industry Fellowship in AstraZeneca (2018). Aurora works very closely with the industry supporting impactful research and knowledge transfer.
Aurora is an Editorial Board Member of CrystEngComm and Crystal Growth and Design and has served as topic editor and guest editor for both these journals. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and is one of the founders of the Women in Crystal Engineering (WiCE) group. Aurora is a passionate supporter of diversity and inclusion. She is also a mother of a wonderful boy, loves her family, travelling, photography, music (she is a qualified classical guitar teacher) and Spain.
Susan Reutzel-Edens
SuRE Pharma Consulting, LLC, Zoinsville, USA
Susan Reutzel-Edens was Head of Science at the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre and an adjunct professor at Purdue University. Prior to joining SuRE Pharma Consulting, LLC, she earned her PhD at the University of Minnesota under the direction of the late Professor Margaret C. Etter and thereafter joined Eli Lilly and Company, where she founded the solid form design programme and for two decades led a team of cross-functional scientists charged with finding commercially viable crystalline forms for small-molecule drug products. She has contributed to the development of more than 150 compounds, is a named inventor on 12 US patents, and has published over 50 papers and book chapters on key aspects of solid form development.
Susan's research interests include crystal polymorphism, materials design and engineering, crystal nucleation and growth, structure-property relationships, crystal structure prediction and the digital design of drug products. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2018 and currently serves on the CrystEngComm Editorial Board. She is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of Crystal Growth & Design, Molecular Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Research and Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Changquan Calvin Sun
University of Minnesota, USA
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Changquan Calvin Sun is Professor of Pharmaceutics at the University of Minnesota, USA, from which he received his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics in 2000. After spending 8 years in the pharmaceutical industry, he joined the Department of Pharmaceutics as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to full professor in 2017. Professor Sun’s research focuses on efficient formulation design of high-quality tablet products through the appropriate application of materials science and engineering principles. Two main areas of his current research are 1) crystal and particle engineering for superior pharmaceutical properties; and 2) fundamental understanding of pharmaceutical processes, including powder compaction. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Professor Sun received the 2019 Ralph Shangraw Memorial Award from the International Pharmaceutical Excipient Council (IPEC) and the 2022 David J. W. Grant Distinguished Scholar Award in Basic Pharmaceutics from the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology and Education (NIPTE).
Bin Zhao
Nankai University, China
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Bin Zhao is a Distinguished Professor at Nankai University. He received his PhD degree from Nankai University in 2004 and has worked as a Full Professor at the Department of Chemistry since 2009. His current research interests focus on the construction of complicated metal clusters and structure, luminescence and catalysis of cluster-based coordination polymers, as well as their applications in the fields of energy, environment and health, such as the conversion and utilization of CO2, water splitting, luminescent probes etc. The related research won the support of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund. Bin Zhao has published over 180 research papers and has won various awards including the National Hundred Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (2006), the Chinese Chemical Society Prize for Young Scientists (2006), the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (2007) and the Youth Science and Technology Innovation Leader (2017).
