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Candace Chan is an Assistant Professor in the materials science and engineering program in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy at Arizona State University (ASU). Prior to joining ASU in 2011, she was a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Ber- keley in the Department of Chemistry. She received her Ph.D. in chemistry from Stan- ford University in 2009. As a graduate student, she was an NSF Graduate Fellow, Stanford Graduate Fellow, and winner of

Published on 26 April 2016. Downloaded 04/05/2016 06:37:12. the MRS Graduate Student Award (Silver) Andriy Zakutayev is a scientist at the ETH Zurich (Switzerland) for Ph.D. study. and TMS Ross N. Tucker Award in Elec- National Renewable Energy Laboratory Prior to his appointment at ICIQ, he was tronic Materials. She received a B.S. in (USA) working on materials research and an Oberassistent (Senior Scientist/ chemistry from Rice University in 2005. Her device development for novel solar energy Lecturer) at the ETH Zurich. His research research group is designing and studying conversion and other technologies, using interests are centered on the develop- the unique properties of nanostructured high-throughput combinatorial experiment of heterogeneous catalysts and materials for applications in electro- mental methods. Dr Zakutayev has a Ph.D. processes based on rational under- chemical energy storage, photocatalysis, in Physics from Oregon State University, standing aided by in situ and in operando and water treatment. whereheworkedonwide-bandgapp-type spectroscopic methods, especially for Cristina Tealdi is currently Assistant

semiconductors for transparent elec- CO2 conversion reactions. Professor at the Department of Chemistry tronics. Andriy received his B.S. in Elec- tronics from Lviv Polytechnic National University in Ukraine. Atsushi Urakawa has been a Group Leader at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Tarragona, Spain since 2010. He obtained his B.Sc. degree in Applied Chemistry at Kyushu University (Japan) including a one-year stay in the USA. Aerwards, he continued his education in Chemical Engineering at Del University of Technology (The Netherlands) for MSc study and further at

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of the University of Pavia, Italy, where she Mark D. Symes was born in London in received her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2006. 1982 and graduated from the University During her postdoctoral years she was of Cambridge in 2005. Aer a Ph.D. at the awarded an Alexander von Humboldt University of Edinburgh with David A. fellowship to work at the Technical Leigh (FRS), he undertook postdoctoral University in Munich, Germany, and in studies at the Massachusetts Institute of 2013 she was the recipient of a “Future in Technology (2009–2010). In late 2010, he Research” grant (FIRB) from the Italian returned to the UK and became a post- Ministry for Education, University and doctoral researcher at the University of Research. Her work is focussed on the Glasgow. This didn't put them oﬀ investigation of materials for clean though, and he joined the faculty at energy applications (i.e. fuel cells and Glasgow in 2013. His research interests batteries) through the use of computa- span energy conversion, small molecule tional as well as experimental techniques, Francesco Bonaccorso gained his Ph.D. activations, electrochemistry and coordi- with emphasis on the role of structure from the University of Messina, Italy aer nation chemistry, as well as new mate- and defects in tailoring materials workingattheItalianNationalResearch rials for all the above. performances. Council, the Engineering Department of Cambridge University (UK) and the Depart- ment of Physics and Astronomy of Vander- bilt University (USA). In June 2009 he was awarded a Royal Society Newton Interna- tional Fellowship at Cambridge University, and elected to a Research Fellowship at Hughes Hall, Cambridge, where he also obtained an MA. He is currently leading the processing and prototyping group at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Graphene Labs. He was responsible for dening the ten years scienticandtechnologicalroad- map for the European Graphene Flagship. His research interests encompass both the Dr Jian Lin has been an assistant Da Deng is an assistant professor of fundamental understanding and solution professor of Mechanical & Aerospace processing of novel nanomaterials with on- Published on 26 April 2016. Downloaded 04/05/2016 06:37:12. Chemical Engineering and Materials Engineering at University of Missouri Science at the Wayne State University. He demand designed structures, their spectro- (MU) since August, 2014. Prior to MU, he received his undergraduate training in scopic characterization, incorporation into was a postdoctoral research associate in Environmental Engineering at the polymer composites and their technological the Department of Mechanical Engi- National University of Singapore (NUS). application in solar cells, lithium-ion neering and Materials Science (now Aer graduation, he worked as a research batteries, light emitting devices and ultra- Materials Science & Nanoengineering) at engineer in Chemistry at NUS for one fast lasers. He organized several conferences Rice University from 2011 to 2014. He got year before he enrolled in a Ph.D. including Graphene2015/2016, Graphene a B.S. in Mechanical and Automation program in Chemical and Biomolecular Canada, GrapChina 2014/2015 and Engineering from Zhejiang University in Engineering in the same university. His symposia in MRS, e-MRS. He is currently an 2007. Then he studied at University of Ph.D. dissertation was awarded the Associate Editor of RSC Advances. California-Riverside and received his World Future Foundation (WFF) Ph.D. M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. Prize in Environmental and Sustain- in Mechanical Engineering in 2010 and ability Research. His received his rst 2011, respectively. Dr Lin's research postdoctoral training in Harvard Univer- centres on advanced materials synthesis sity and second postdoctoral training in and processing for applications in energy MIT. He joined the Wayne State Univer- storage/conversion and electronics sity as a faculty member in 2011. His through both computational and experi- research interests mainly focus on green mental approaches. So far, he has pub- materials for energy and environmental lished >30 peer-reviewed journal papers applications, particularly those involving in the areas of energy, electronics and sustainable bio-inspired and bio-derived nanomaterials. He holds 4 issued and functional materials synthesized with low pending US patents. He has been an overall environmental footprint. invited reviewer for 13 scientic journals.

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His work in electronics and energy Timothy Kelly is currently an Assistant group she received a NWO-VENI grant storage has been featured in NSF, ACS, Professor in the Department of Chem- (2010), an Athena premium (2012) and and Air Force Research Lab websites, and istry at the University of Saskatchewan, a NWO-VIDI grant (2014). In 2015, she widely reported by the main scientic and holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair became a member of the Dutch Young media such as C&EN, Science Daily, in Photovoltaics. He received his B.Sc. Academy. Manufacturing Engineering Magazine, degree in Chemistry from the Memorial Phys.org, IEEE Spectrum, etc. University of Newfoundland in 2005 and went on to complete his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Michael Wolf (2005– 2009) at the University of British Columbia. From 2009–2011 he was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Michael Sailor at the University of California, San Diego. In 2011 he began his independent academic career at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada. His research interests include perovskite solar cells, hard X-ray scattering techniques, organic photovoltaic devices, and the optoelec- Nicolas Vogel studied chemistry at the tronic applications of plasmonic Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Julian Dean is a senior lecturer within nanoparticles. Germany and Seoul National University the Department of Materials Science and in Seoul, Republic of Korea. In 2011, he EngineeringattheUniversityofSheﬃeld. received his Ph.D. working with Katha- Hisresearchisstronglylinkedtoexperi- rina Landfester at the Max Planck Insti- mental analysis and atomic scale simula- tute for Polymer Research in Mainz. He tions to provide verication and realistic joined the group of Joanna Aizenberg at input parameters in order to predict opti- the School of Engineering and Applied mised device performance. Using an in- Sciences at Harvard University as a post- house developed nite element (FE) doctoral fellow. In 2014, he was appoin- package for solving Maxwell's equations in ted associate professor in the Department space and time, predictions of the imped- of Chemical and Biological Engineering ance response, current density and electric

Published on 26 April 2016. Downloaded 04/05/2016 06:37:12. at the Friedrich-Alexander-University eld of a heterogeneous granular material Erlangen-Nuremberg. He likes to under- canbemadeallowinghimtobeginlinking stand how colloidal particles assemble the physical microstructure to the electrical and to see functional properties emerge microstructure. This work is supported by Marleen Kamperman is an Assistant entirely from controlling the structure of the development of a package capable of Professor at the Physical Chemistry and such self-assembled systems. When not designing multigrain structures. This can So Matter Laboratory at Wageningen in the lab, he prefers to be outdoors. generate models that incorporate realistic University, the Netherlands. Her research features such as variable grain size and focuses on the biologically inspired shape, graded material properties, core– synthesis of polymers and nano- shell microstructures, grain boundaries, structured surfaces with controlled porosity and interfacial roughness. adhesive properties. She received her Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, where she worked in the group of Prof Ulrich Wiesner. From 2008 to 2010, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Functional Surfaces group of Prof Eduard Arzt at INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbrucken,¨ Germany. In 2014, she was a visiting professor in the So Matter Sciences and Engineering Robert G Palgrave studied for his under- Laboratory at ESPCI ParisTech, Paris, graduate and Ph.D. degrees in the France. To establish her own research Chemistry Department, University

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College London. His doctoral work under University of Washington – Seattle with Prof. Ivan Parkin was on chemical depo- Professors Younan Xia and Xingde Li, sition of thin lms of nanoparticles. In designing nanomaterials for biomedical his postdoctoral work he moved to phys- applications. She is the James H. Rudy ical vapour deposition techniques – rst Associate Professor of Chemistry at working on molecular beam epitaxy of Indiana University – Bloomington and oxides at Oxford with Prof. Russ Egdell, a recipient of both NSF CAREER and then on pulsed laser deposition of arti- DOE Early Career Awards. She is a 2012 cial layered structures with Prof. Matthew Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar, Rosseinsky. He returned to UCL to take a 2013 Sloan Research Fellow, a 2014 up a lectureship in 2012, and now leads Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, and a group which has diversied away from recipient of the 2014 ACS Award in Pure thin lm deposition into general solid Chemistry and 2015 Baekeland Award. state chemistry and a number of other Her research group focuses on nano- areas – ionic liquids, biocompatible material design and synthesis. Rui Liu received his Ph.D. in chemistry polymers, photocatalysts and carbon from University of California, Riverside in nitride. 2010. He carried out his rst postdoctoral research at Oak Ridge National Labora- tory. In 2012–2015, he was a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Professor Rodney Priestley at Princeton University. In 2015, he joined Tongji University as a Young Thousand Talented professor. His research interests include nanoparticle preparation and polymer self- assembly.

Dr Vivek Polshettiwar is a reader at TIFR, Mumbai. Before joining TIFR, he Rodney D. Priestley is an Associate worked at ENSC, Montpellier, France;

Published on 26 April 2016. Downloaded 04/05/2016 06:37:12. Professor in the Department of Chem- US-EPA, Cincinnati and KAUST. He has ical and Biological Engineering at published more than 80 articles in top Princeton University. He obtained his journals and has an h-index of 39 and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from more than 5000 citations. Several of his Northwestern University in 2008. He articles are rated as Top 10, Top 5, Hot completed a NSF/Chateaubriand post- articles and appear on journal front doctoral fellowship at Ecole Superieure covers. He is the recipient of several de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de awards, such as the prestigious Oak la Ville de Paris. His research interests Ridge Institute for Science and Educa- Dr Sara Skrabalak received her B.A. include polymer glasses, nanoconned tion (ORISE) Research Fellowship, Asian degree in chemistry from Washington polymer dynamics, polymer thin lm Rising Star award at 15th Asian Chem- University in St. Louis in 2002 where she and nanoparticle formation, MAPLE ical Congress (ACC), etc. Recently, he conductedresearchwithProfessorWil- and responsive polymers. He is the wasadmittedasaFellowoftheRoyal liamE.Buhro.Shewastherecipientof recipientofnumerousawardsincluding Society of Chemistry (RSC), United the Sowden Award in undergraduate the Quadrant Award, ACS New Investi- Kingdom and has also been recognized research from the Department of gator Grant, 3M Non-Tenured Faculty asoneofthe175FacesofChemistry. Chemistry. She then moved to the Grant, NSF CAREER Award, AFOSR YIP, His research interests are in the area of University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- Presidential Early Career Award for advanced nano-materials, nanocatalysis paign where she completed her Ph.D. Scientist and Engineers, Alfred P. Sloan and green chemistry. He believes that degree in chemistry in fall of 2006 under Fellowship and Camille Dreyfus next generation catalysts can be devel- the tutelage of Professor Kenneth S. Teacher-Scholar Award. Most recently oped by shape and morphological Suslick. There, she was the recipient of he was named to The Root 100 list of control of nano-materials which will the T.S. Piper Thesis Award for her work most inuential African American in allow preferential exposure of active on porous materials. She then conduct- 2014. sites. ed postdoctoral research at the

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Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, Dr Zijian Zheng's research interests and School of Textile and Clothing Engi- include surface and polymer science, neering in Soochow University since nanolithography, exible/stretchable/ 2013. His research interests are focused wearable/graphene materials and elec-

on TiO2 nanostructures, bio-inspired tronic devices. He received a BEng in intelligent surfaces with special wetta- Chemical Engineering at Tsinghua bility, energy and environmental University in 2003, and Ph.D. in Chem- materials. istry at University of Cambridge in 2007 (under the supervision of Prof. Wilhelm T. S. Huck). In 2008, Dr Zheng joined the group of Prof. Chad A. Mirkin as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Depart- ment of Chemistry and International Institute for Nanotechnology at North- western University, working on the Yabing Qi is currently an Assistant development of dip-pen nano- Professor and Head of Energy Materials lithography and polymer pen lithog- and Surface Science Unit (EMSS) in Oki- raphy. He joined the Hong Kong nawa Institute of Science and Technology Polytechnic University as Assistant Graduate University (OIST). Dr Qi Professor in 2009 and was promoted to received his BS, MPhil, and Ph.D. degrees tenured Associate Professor via afast from Nanjing University, Hong Kong track. Dr Zheng has published >60 University of Science and Technology, papers in high-impact international and University of California Berkeley, Yun Hau Ng received his Ph.D. from scienticjournals. respectively. His research interests Osaka University in 2009. Aer a brief include perovskite solar cells, organic research visit to the Radiation Laboratory electronics, surface sciences, energy at University of Notre Dame (Prof. Pra- materials and devices. Dr Qi has co- shant Kamat's group), he joined the ARC authored 50 peer-reviewed papers and Centre of Excellence for Functional has delivered 70+ invited and contributed Nanomaterials led by Prof. Rose Amal at research presentations at international UNSW with the Australian Postdoctoral conferences, technical meetings and Fellowship (APD) in 2011. He is currently universities. a lecturer in the School of Chemical

Published on 26 April 2016. Downloaded 04/05/2016 06:37:12. Engineering at UNSW. His research is focused on the development of novel photoactive semiconductors (particles and thin lm) for sunlight energy conversion. He received the Honda- Fujishima Prize in 2013 in recognition of his work in the area of photo-driven water Ross Forgan is a Royal Society University splitting. He has published over 60 peer- Research Fellow in the School of Chem- reviewed research articles. istry at the University of Glasgow. Aer receiving MChem (Hons) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Edinburgh in 2004 and 2008, under the supervision of Prof. Peter Tasker, he spent three years as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Sir J. Fraser Stoddart at North- Yuekun Lai received his Ph.D. degree western University, USA. In 2011 he from the Department of Chemistry, Xia- returned to Scotland as a postdoctoral men University. During 2009–2011, he researcher in the group of Prof. Lee Cro- worked as a research fellow at Nanyang nin at the University of Glasgow, and took Technological University, Singapore. In up his current independent position in July of 2011, he moved to Muenster 2012. His research group is interested in University with Prof. Harald Fuchs and the crystallisation and functionalisation Prof. Lifeng Chi under the support of of MOFs, as well as their materials prop- Humboldt Scholarship of Germany. He is erties and biomimetic applications. currently a professor at National

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(China) in June 2011, and then moved to University of Singapore, and obtained the University of California, Riverside his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engi- and then Rutgers, The State University of neering from University of Minnesota in New Jersey as a Postdoctoral Scholar from 2011. Thereaer, he moved to University July 2011 to October 2013. He has been an of California, Berkeley and worked as associate professor in Jilin University a postdoctoral researcher in the since December 2013. His research Department of Chemistry during 2011– interests focus on the design and 2012 before joining the School of synthesis of noble metal-free, nano- Chemical and Biomedical Engineering structured materials for water splitting at Nanyang Technological University and renewable energy conversion. as an Assistant Professor in 2012. His main research interests are electro- catalysis, photovoltaics and Timothy Easun is a Royal Society photoelectrochemistry. University Research Fellow in the School of Chemistry at Cardiff University. Timothy received his MSci in Chemistry from Nottingham University and, aer a year out of academia, completed a Ph.D. in Supramolecular Photochemistry with Michael D. Ward at the University of Sheffield. He then returned to Notting- ham to undertake postdoctoral research with Mike George, combining photo- crystallography with time-resolved spec-  troscopies. Brie y holding a Teaching Osman M. Bakr holds a B.Sc. in Materials Fellow post, Timothy took on the role of Science and Engineering from MIT (2003) ffi Senior Research O cer for Martin as well as a M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied WilsonA.SmithisanAssistant Schroder,¨ also at Nottingham, super- Physics from Harvard University (2009). Professor in the Department of Chem- vising a large and highly active porous He is currently an Associate Professor of ical Engineering at Del University of materials research group. Moving to Materials Science and Engineering, Technology. He earned his BS in Physics Cardiff in April 2015 to take up an inde- SABIC Presidential Career Development from American University in 2005, and ff

Published on 26 April 2016. Downloaded 04/05/2016 06:37:12. pendent Cardi University Research Chair, at KAUST, Saudi Arabia. His his Ph.D. in Physics from the University Fellowship, his research is concerned research group focuses on the study of of Georgia in 2010, where he studied the  with the control of nanoscale ow of hybrid organic–inorganic nanoparticles synthesis and applications of nano- molecules within porous materials using and materials; particularly advancing structured photocatalysts. From there photochemistry as both probe and actu- their synthesis and self-assembly for he moved to Paris, France as a post- ator to make nanouidic devices. His applications in photovoltaics and doctoral research associate at the Uni- group designs, synthesises and charac- optoelectronics. versite Pierre et Marie Curie/Sorbonne terises photoactive porous metal-organic where he studied the defect structure frameworks. of doped semiconductors for solar Xiaoxin Zou was awarded a Ph.D. in water purication. In 2012 he began his Inorganic Chemistry from Jilin University current position at TU Del, where his group focuses on fundamental processes related to photo- electrochemical water splitting, electro-

catalytic water oxidation, and CO2 reduction catalysis using inorganic nanostructured materials. A specic focus is placed on studying only earth abundant materials, and using in situ techniques to probe the material properties and reaction Bin Liu received his B.Eng. (1st Class processes during (photo)electro- Honors) and M.Eng. degrees in Chem- chemical testing. ical Engineering from the National

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Aer completing his doctoral work (2010), Shane Ardo has been an Assistant Brent joined the Laboratoire de Réactivité Professor at the University of California, et Chimie des Solides in Amiens as a post- Irvine in the Department of Chemistry doctoral research associate under Jean- since 2013 and holds a joint appointment Marie Tarascon. Since 2012, he has been an in the Department of Chemical Engi- Assistant Professor in the Department of neering and Materials Science. He obtained Chemistry at the University of Southern a BS Degree in Mathematics in 1999 from California in Los Angeles where his group Towson University and was a goalkeeper continues to develop a deeper under- for their Division I-A Men's Soccer team. He standing of how the crystal structure and worked as an IT Consultant for one year composition of materials inuence their before deciding to become a teacher at the functional properties. Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) and then at Baltimore City College Vincent Tung is an Assistant Professor at High School. His science career began at the nascent University of California, CCBC where he took Organic Chemistry as ffi Merced and is a liated with the Molecular a part-time evening student. Aer that he Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National lab. obtained an MS Degree in Nutrition in 2005 He received his Ph.D. degree in materials from the University of Maryland followed science and chemistry from the University by a Ph.D. Degree in Photo-Physical Inor- of California, Los Angeles in 2009 and ganic Chemistry in 2010 from Johns Hop- became an Initiative for Sustainability and kins University. Then he worked as a DOE- Energy at Northwestern (ISEN) post- EERE Postdoctoral Research Awardee at the doctoral research fellow at the North- California Institute of Technology until western University in 2010. His main 2013. Prof. Ardo's research interests are research interest is in the general area of driven by the pursuit of understanding and materials chemistry and assembly of func- controlling energy conversion mechanisms tional nanomaterials for energy harvesting for applications in solar fuels devices, Marek Grzelczak found his passion for and storage. He is the recipient of an photovoltaics, seawater desalination, and chemistry while doing research as an America Chemical Society Petroleum Fund redox ow batteries. New Doctoral Investigator Award, and the undergraduate at Helmholtz-Zentrum Ber- Research Excellence Early Career Investi- lin (Germany). Aer receiving his BS at gator Award by the Graduate Council at the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznan University of California. He is also a die- (Poland), he pursued doctoral studies with

Published on 26 April 2016. Downloaded 04/05/2016 06:37:12. hard fan of the Red Sox and enjoys a cup of Professor Luis M. Liz-Marz´an at University coﬀee at Blue Bottle and Sight glass. of Vigo (Spain), where he received his Ph.D. in 2008. He then conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Trieste (Italy) with Professor Maurizio Prato and later at Max-Planck Institut with Professor Markus Antonietti. In 2012 he joined CIC bio- maGUNEinSanSebastianasaIkerbasque Research Fellow. His work at CIC bio- maGUNE focuses on the self-assembly of particles for plasmonic nanochemistry. DrJoelvanEmbdenisaSeniorLecturer and ARC Research Fellow in the School of Science at RMIT University. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Melbourne in 2008 for work on the synthesis and nucle- ation kinetics of nanocrystals under the Brent C. Melot received his Ph.D. from the mentorship of Professor Paul Mulvaney. Materials Department at the University of His research interests include the synthesis California, Santa Barbara under the super- of novel nanomaterials, the kinetics and vision of Ram Seshadri. His research at thermodynamics of nanoparticle forma- UCSB focused on understanding the relation, colloid surface chemistry, quantum tionship between the atomic structure and dot composite materials, and nano- magnetic properties of complex oxides. structured thin lms for optoelectronics

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and energy harvesting applications. At Maksym Kovalenko has been a tenure- and storage devices. Her research also present,hismajorresearchfocusisonthe track Assistant Professor of Inorganic includes bio-inspired nanochannel fabrication and characterization of novel Chemistry at ETH Zurich¨ since July 2011 design for energy harvesting and water solution processed inorganic solar cells. (Zurich,¨ Switzerland). His group is also treatment. partially hosted by Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dubendorf,¨ Switzerland) to support his highly interdisciplinary research program. Born and educated as a chemist in Ukraine, he completed doctoral studies at Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria, 2004–2007, with Prof. Wolfgang Heiss), followed by postdoctoral training at the University of Chicago (USA, 2008–2011, with Prof. Dmitri Talapin). His present research aims to provide novel inorganic materials for photovoltaics and other optoelec- tronic applications, rechargeable Manuel Tsotsalas was born in Dusseldorf,¨ Meidan Ye is an associate Professor in the lithium-ion batteries and post-lithium Germany and obtained his diploma degree Research Institute for So Matter and electrochemical storage devices. The in Chemistry in 2006 at the University of Biomimetics, Department of Physics, portfolio of investigated materials Munster¨ where he then attended the College of Physical Science and Tech- includes colloidal quantum dots, lead International NRW Graduate School of nology at Xiamen University. She received halide and lead-free perovskite nano- Chemistry and earned his Ph.D. under the her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the crystals and single crystals, as well as guidance of Prof. Luisa De Cola in 2010. State Key Laboratory of Physical Chem- metals, metal alloys, metal oxides, Aer completing his Ph.D., he was a DAAD istry of Solid Surfaces, and College of suldes and uorides. He is the recipient postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at of an ERC Starting Grant 2012, Ruzicka Prof. Susumu Kitagawa/group of Prof. Xiamen University in 2014. Her research Prize 2013 and Werner Prize 2016. Shuhei Furukawa at Kyoto University, interests include advanced nano-

Japan. Aer his postdoctoral research, he structured materials (e.g., TiO2, ZnO,

joined the Karlsruhe Institute of Tech- CuxS, CoS, SrTiO3, etc.) for energy and nology, where he is currently an indepen- environment applications, such as

Published on 26 April 2016. Downloaded 04/05/2016 06:37:12. dent group leader at the Institute of perovskite solar cells, dye/quantum dot- Functional Interfaces (IFG) and at the sensitized solar cells, hydrogen produc- Institute of Organic Chemistry (IOC). He is tion from photoelectrocatalytic water PI in the SFB 1176, molecular structuring of splitting, photocatalytic degradation of so matter and leader of the Helmholtz organic pollutants, and electrochromic Young Research Group, hierarchically devices. structured biomaterials. His research interests centre around the synthesis, processing and application of porous organic/ metal-organic frameworks.

Yun Jung Lee is assistant professor at Hanyang University. She earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees from Seoul National University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009. Upon completion of her Ph.D., she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Materials Sciences Group at Pacic Northwest National Laboratory. In Yu-Lun Chueh received his Ph.D. degree 2011, she joined Hanyang University and from the Department of Materials her research focuses on advanced nano- Science and Engineering, National Tsing materials design for energy conversion Hua University, Taiwan in 2006 and

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worked as a postdoctoral researcher in in 2007 with Prof. Edward I. Solomon. electrical engineering and computer Aer two years of postdoctoral work with science, UC Berkeley from 2007 to 2009. Prof. James P. Collman he joined IACS in He joined the Department of Materials June 2009 where he is now an Associate Science and Engineering, National Tsing Professor. He is the recipient of ACS Hua University in 2009; currently, he is division of inorganic chemistry young a professor in the same department. He investigator award, SPP Young investi- has published 211 peer-reviewed papers gator award and he has been young and 19 patents with total citations >6000 associate of the Indian Academy of and a h-index of 37. His research direc- Science, Bangalore. He is currently tions include: development of Cu(In,Ga) serving as editorial advisory board

Se2 solar cell and its light harvesting member to Inorganic Chemistry, Chemical behavior, growth of low-dimensional Communications, ACS Catalysis and Jour- materials and their possible functional nal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry.Heis applications, low power resistive random Stephen Sproules obtained a Ph.D. an inorganic chemist interested in access memory, development of various from the University of Melbourne, which generation, storage and transfer of methods to synthesize diﬀerent gra- included collaborations with the Univer- energy. A combination of synthesis, self- phene/two-dimensional materials and sities of Nottingham and Saskatchewan, assembly, spectroscopy, electrochemistry development of electrically charged- and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation and electronic structure calculations are induced selective ions in porous nano- Laboratory. His postdoctoral work used to attain these research goals. structures and their application in the focused on combining experiment and desalination of saline water. theory to elucidate the electronic structures of transition metal complexes with radical ligands at the then Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry with Karl Wieghardt. This was followed by a posting at the EPSRC National EPR facility at The University of Manchester. In 2013, he began his current position as lecturer at the University of Glasgow. Stephen's research focuses on the development of radical ligand complexes for a variety of magnetic and spintronic Published on 26 April 2016. Downloaded 04/05/2016 06:37:12. applications, as well as applying EPR spectroscopy to energy materials, bio- Mike Rose is an Assistant Professor in the inorganic systems, heterogeneous catal- Chemistry Department at the University ysis and chemical sensing. Debasish Haldar received his postgraduate of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from University of from UC Santa Cruz in 2009 (Advisor: Calcutta, Kolkata, India, in 1999 and later Prof Pradip Mascharak) in synthetic bio- his Ph.D. degree from Jadavpur University, inorganic chemistry, and went on to Kolkata, India, in 2005 under the supervi- a postdoctoral position at Caltech co- sion of Professor Arindam Banerjee, IACS, advised by Prof Harry Gray and Prof Nate Kolkata. Aer postdoctoral studies with Lewis under the auspices of the CCI-Solar Professor Ivan Huc at IECB in France, multi-investigator program. At Caltech, Professor Aline Miller at the University of Mike merged his interest in synthetic Manchester in UK and Professor Carsten inorganic chemistry with semiconductor Schmuck at the University of Wurzburg¨ in photoelectrochemistry and surface Germany, he joined the Indian Institute of chemistry. In his independent career at Science Education and Research Kolkata in UT, Mike has developed a hybrid molec- 2008 as Assistant Professor. He was made ular/materials approach to the function- Associate Professor in 2013. His research alization of silicon with organic linkers interests include developing designer Abhishek Dey was born in Calcutta where and materials or molecular catalysts

amino acids and analogues, peptides, fol- he did his B.Sc in the Presidency College. (MoS2, Pt, PNP-Ni chelates, etc.). Other damers and related materials. He has Aer completing his M.Sc. at the Indian projects include the synthesis and func- published over 70 papers, 5 book chapters Institute of Technology, Kanpur, he did tion of biomimetic models of [Fe]- and 2 books. his Ph.D. at Stanford University, CA, USA, hydrogenase, as well as the study of late

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transition metal complexes derived from Jin Suntivich is an assistant Jin conducted a postdoctoral fellowship heavy main group elements (Sb, Bi). professor in the Department of Mate- at Harvard University, MA, USA, where rials Science and Engineering at Cornell he studied transient spectroscopy and University. Aer receiving bachelor photochemistry of titanium dioxides. In degrees from Northwestern University, fall 2013, he began his Assistant IL,USA,hewenttoobtainhisdoctoral Professor position at Cornell. His degree in Materials Science and Engi- current research focuses on connecting neering at the Massachusetts Institute electrochemical properties with funda- of Technology (MIT), MA, USA, where he mental structure–property relation- studied precious metal and transition shipsinoxidesthroughtheuseofwell- oxide electrocatalysts for electro- dened surfaces and optical chemical energy conversion reactions. spectroscopy. Aer completing his doctoral degree, Published on 26 April 2016. Downloaded 04/05/2016 06:37:12.