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ChemComm View Article Online PROFILE View Journal | View Issue Contributors to the Emerging Investigators Collection 2020 Cite this: Chem. Commun.,2021, 57,1066 DOI: 10.1039/d1cc90026a rsc.li/chemcomm Published on 25 January 2021. Downloaded 10/6/2021 3:54:48 AM. Hyun S. Ahn (a.k.a. Kevin) pursued his John Anderson graduated with a BS/MS Luis Miguel Azofra loves quantum PhD studies at the University of California in 2008 from the University of Chicago chemistry as much as the sea. The latter at Berkeley, in the field of inorganic working with Greg Hillhouse on phosphine was a gift he received for being born in chemistry under the supervision of Prof. complexes of Ni and their reactivity with the Canary Islands, the first is a passion T. Don Tilley. Upon conferral of his PhD in small molecules. He began his PhD at MIT he learned during his PhD in Prof. Alkorta’s 2013, Hyun continued his research at the and finished at CalTech in 2014 with Jonas lab (CSIC, Spain). In 2015, Dr Sun and Prof. University of Texas with Prof. Allen J. Bard. Peters working on an Fe catalyst for MacFarlane introduced him to the field of Hyun’s current research interest spans nitrogen fixation. John then did a post- catalysis (Monash University, Australia), and across both inorganic and electro- chemistry. doc at Northwestern with Dave Harris in 2016 he joined Prof. Cavallo’s group as an The main topics researched in his laboratory focusing on materials, particularly metal in silico designer (KAUST, Saudi Arabia). focus on solving energy related problems: organic frameworks. He returned to the Currently, Dr Azofra is an early-career understanding and materializing arti- University of Chicago in 2015 and has research leader at Universidad de Las ficial photosynthetic systems and advanced been interested in linking the physical Palmas de Gran Canaria, where he batteries. characteristics of transition metal centers, combines his efforts as researcher and including spin and radical character, to lecturer. reactivity and materials properties. 1066 | Chem. Commun.,2021,57, 1066--1079 This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2021 View Article Online Profile ChemComm Bloch Construction, he attended UW-Fond du Lac then transferred to UW-Milwaukee. He earned his PhD from UC-Berkeley and did a postdoc at Harvard. He started a faculty position at the University of Delaware in 2016 where his research focuses on the design and synthesis of porous molecules. When not on endless Zoom calls, Bloch’s idea of relaxation is working on his recently acquired 1969 International Harvester pickup truck with his wife. Jonathan Bauer was born in Augsburg Magnus R. Buchner studied chemistry at (Germany). He studied Chemistry at the the Technische Universita¨tMu¨nchen Julius-Maximilians-Universita¨tWu¨rzburg where he received his PhD in 2011 under (Germany) and received his doctoral the supervision of Klaus Ruhland. After degree in 2014 from the Technische postdoctoral stays in the groups of Flor- Universita¨t Dortmund (Germany) under ian Kraus (Munich), Robin Perutz (York) the supervision of Professor Carsten and Sjo¨rd Harder (Erlangen) and a stint in Strohmann. After postdoctoral studies the patent department of the Fraunhofer- with Professor David Milstein at The Gesellschaft, he started his independent Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) research at the Philipps-Universita¨t from 2014 to 2016, he moved back to Marburg in 2015, funded by the Deutsche Regensburg (Germany) and worked as a Forschungs Gemeinschaft, and since postdoc with Professor Manfred Scheer. 2019 within the Emmy Noether program. Since 2018, he has been leading an Danie¨l L. J. (Danny) Broere obtained his His research interests lie in the coordina- independent research group at the Uni- PhD in 2016 at the University of Amsterdam tion, organometallic and bioinorganic versita¨t Regensburg working in the fields working with Jarl Ivar van der Vlugt. chemistry of hard (pseudo) main group of Lewis-acidic cations, functionalized Subsequently, he worked as a Rubicon metals, with a predilection for beryllium. Published on 25 January 2021. Downloaded 10/6/2021 3:54:48 AM. siloxanes, and coordination chemistry. postdoctoral fellow with Pat Holland at Outside of the lab, cooking and singing Yale University. There, Danny met his in a chamber choir are his passions. (now) wife and also realized the goal laid out in his Rubicon proposal, albeit in a completely different way than proposed. In September 2018 he started as a tenure- track assistant professor at Utrecht University where his research focusses on the development of well-defined homogeneous multimetallic catalyst sys- tems. Outside of work, Danny is an avid traveler with a secret agenda to show his wife that there are places with worse weather than The Netherlands. After graduation in 2008, Cle´ment Cabanetos undertook a PhD at the CEISAM laboratory (Nantes, France) on the synth- Eric Bloch was born in Wisconsin in 1983 esis of new crosslinkable polymers for and raised on a dairy farm near Brownsville nonlinear optical applications. Shortly (population B400). After a stint as the after his thesis defense, he joined KAUST owner (and only employee) of Building (Saudi Arabia) as a postdoctoral fellow to This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2021 Chem. Commun.,2021,57, 1066--1079 | 1067 View Article Online ChemComm Profile prepare efficient p-conjugated macro- Stephen Buchwald’s lab at MIT, he was molecular materials for organic photovol- kindly supported by Prof. Xile Hu to taics. Thereafter, he was recruited as a indulge in interesting base-metal catalysis CNRS researcher and joined, in 2013, the at EPFL. In 2017, he began his adventure at MOLTECH-Anjou laboratory (Angers, TianjinUniversityasan associate professor France) to develop new and original con- with a fruitful collaboration with Prof. cepts for organic electronics. A loving Jun-An Ma. His current research interest husband (married to Christina) and is focused on organic synthesis based on father of two (Cassandre and Esteban), abundant feedstocks, hopefully providing he enjoys simple things such as listening more attractive synthetic methods like to rock music, BBQs and surfing. the myriad colors of budgies! Dr Zheng Chen is an assistant professor in the Department of NanoEngineering, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Programs at University of California San Diego (UCSD). He received his BS from Tianjin University (2007) and PhD from University of California Los Angeles (2012), both in Chemical Engineering. Then he served as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University before joining UCSD in 2016. Chen Chen received his BS degree from the His research group, the Sustainable Department of Chemistry, Beijing Institute Materials and Energy Laboratory (SMEL), Saurabh Chitnis obtained his PhD with of Technology in 2006, and his PhD degree mainly focuses on designing and under- Neil Burford at the University of Victoria from the Department of Chemistry, Tsin- standing novel molecules, nanostructured (2015) with a 6-month stint at TU-Dresden ghua University in 2011 under the direction materials, functional polymers and their (Germany) in the group of Jan Weigand. of Prof. Yadong Li. After postdoctoral work hybrid materials for energy storage and He then performed postdoctoral work Published on 25 January 2021. Downloaded 10/6/2021 3:54:48 AM. at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory conversion. with Ian Manners (Bristol) as a Banting with Prof. Peidong Yang, he joined the Fellow (2015–2017) and Doug Stephan in Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua Uni- Toronto (2017–2018). He joined Dalhousie versity as an associate professor in 2015. (Canada) in July 2018 where his research His research interests are focused on nano- is revealing new electronic structures and materials and catalysis. reactivity at heavy main group centres. In his free time, Saurabh enjoys discovering the coastal beauty of Atlantic Canada with his partner and pretending that he is a master chef, despite evidence to the contrary. Chi Wai Cheung gained exciting organo- metallics experience during his doctoral training with Prof. Kin Shing Chan at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. After amazing postdoctoral research on Pd-catalyzed cross-couplings in Prof. 1068 | Chem. Commun.,2021,57, 1066--1079 This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2021 View Article Online Profile ChemComm matter keep inspiring him to attempt synthesizing materials with adaptive properties. Regarding hobbies, Dibyendu absolutely loves cooking Indian cuisine and making fusion food. Swimming and cross country drives also excite him a lot. And to top it all, an 8 month old daughter keeps him busy when he’s back home! Scott Daly joined the University of Iowa Arnab Dutta probed first of their kind Department of Chemistry in 2014 and heteronuclear metallopeptides as hydro- was promoted to Associate Professor in genase enzyme models with Prof. Anne 2020. His research focuses on the develop- K. Jones during his PhD at Arizona State ment of transition metal complexes with University (2012). Next, he joined non-innocent ligands, XAS investigations Dr Wendy J. Shaw at Pacific Northwest of metal complexes with phosphorus National Laboratory as a post-doctoral ligands, and lanthanide and actinide coor- researcher and explored new routes to dination chemistry. As a US Army veteran, Neil Dasgupta is an Associate Professor incorporate minimal and essential features Scott leads a STEM outreach program called in the Departments of Mechanical of enzyme architecture into artificial the Chemistry Platoon that assists student Engineering and Materials Science at catalysts to boost their overall reactivity. A veterans in chemistry. Outside of work, the University of Michigan. He earned Ramanujan fellowship awardee, Arnab is Scott enjoys downhill skiing, listening to his PhD from Stanford University in currently appointed as an assistant profes- metal bands, and hanging out with his 2011. Prior to joining the University of sor at IIT Bombay, where he continues his wife and pug.