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).
Elena Boldyreva
Novosibirsk State University, Russia
Professor Dr Elena Boldyreva was born in Tomsk (Russia) in 1961 and graduated from Novosibirsk State University in 1982. She received a PhD in Physical Chemistry in 1988 and her Dr. Sci. in Solid State Chemistry in Russia. She is now employed by Boreskov Institute of Catalysis Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences and is the Head of the Chair of Solid State Chemistry of the Novosibirsk State University.
Elena Boldyreva is an Honorary Doctor of Sciences of the University of Edinburgh, a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Slovenia and a Member of the Academia Europea. She was a Humboldt Fellow and has spent many research terms in Germany, UK, Italy, France. She served as a member of the Executive Committee of the IUCr in 2008 - 2014.
Aurora Cruz-Cabeza
University of Manchester, UK
Dr. Aurora J. Cruz-Cabeza is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester, School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Sciences. After 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. She arrived to Manchester in 2016 where she has established her own research group in solid state chemistry and crystallisation. Aurora has authored over fifty research articles and has given over sixty research talks around the world.
Some of her best well-known work lies in the area of polymorphism in molecular crystals. She currently holds a Royal Society Industry Fellowship in AstraZeneca, is Editorial Board Member of CrystEngComm and she is a topic Editor for Crystal Growth and Design. Aurora has served as guest editors for several special editions for CrystEngComm and Crystal Growth & Design. She is also a mother of a wonderful boy, loves travelling, photography, music and Spain.
Susan Reutzel-Edens
The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, UK
Susan Reutzel-Edens was a senior research advisor in Small Molecule Design & Development at Eli Lilly and Company and adjunct professor at Purdue University. She earned her PhD at the University of Minnesota (1991) under the direction of the late Professor Margaret C. Etter. After, she joined Eli Lilly where she founded the solid form design programme.
For two decades she 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 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, as a topic editor for Crystal Growth and Design. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre.
Omar Farha
Northwestern University, USA
Omar K. Farha is an associate professor of chemistry at Northwestern University, Distinguished Adjunct Professor at King Abdulaziz University, president of NuMat Technologies and Associate Editor for ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. His research accomplishments have been recognized by several awards and honors. These include the Royal Society of Chemistry “Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division Early Career” Award, the American Chemical society “The Satinder Ahuja Award for Young Investigators in Separation Science and an award established by the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University in his honor; the Omar Farha Award for Research Leadership. This is awarded for stewardship, cooperation and leadership in the finest pursuit of research in chemistry and given annually to an outstanding research scientist working in the department.
His current research spans diverse areas of chemistry and materials science ranging from energy to defense related challenges. Specifically, his research focuses on the rational design of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and porous-organic polymers for sensing, catalysis, storage, separations and light harvesting. Prof. Farha has more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, holds 13 patents, and has been named a “Highly Cited Researcher” by Thomson Reuters in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Tong-Bu Lu
Tianjin University of Technology, China
Tong-Bu Lu was born in 1964. He graduated in Chemistry from Lanzhou University in 1993 and then moved to Sun Yat-Sen University as a Postdoc. joining the faculty and then becoming Professor of Chemistry in 2000. He moved to Tianjing University of Technology in 2016. He worked as a postdoc. in F. Albert Cotton’s group at Texas A&M University in 1998 and was there again in 2002.
His research interests focus on crystal engineering, including macrocyclic chemistry, MOFs and pharmaceutical polymorphs and co-crystals. He is currently working on the study of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts for water splitting and CO2 reduction. He obtained the National Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Youth Scholar award in 2006. He has over 200 scientific publications and an h-index of 43. He is currently a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), is on the Editorial Board of CrystEngComm, the Editorial Advisory Board of Current Green Chemistry and Current Pharmaceutical Design and is a co-editor of Acta Crystallographica Section C.
