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www.rsc.org/chemcomm PROFILE Contributors to the Emerging Investigators Issue 2012

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Paramjit Arora was born in New Delhi and relocated to Los Angeles in his early teens. He obtained his BS in Chemistry from UC Berkeley and his earliest research experience in the lab of Professor Richard Mathies. He received his PhD in Chemistry under the guidance of Professor James Nowick at UC Irvine and pursued an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellowship with Professor at Caltech before joining the faculty of NYU in 2002. He is interested in using the principles of physical organic chemistry to regulate biological phenomena, in particular to develop synthetic approaches to target protein interfaces. His group’s research Jared L. Anderson obtained his BS Guillem Aromı´graduated in Chemistry from efforts have been recognized by the degree in chemistry at South Dakota the Universitat de Barcelona. He received James D. Watson Investigator Award, State University in 2000 and his PhD in his PhD in 1999 from Indiana University, Published on 11 January 2012. Downloaded 26/10/2014 23:31:13. the Cottrell Scholar Award and the analytical chemistry at Iowa State with Prof. George Christou, and worked as Whitehead Fellowship for Young Faculty University in 2005. He joined the chem- a Marie-Curie Postdoctoral fellow with in Biomedicine. istry department at The University of Prof. Jan Reedijk (Leiden University) and Toledo in August 2005 as an assistant later with Prof. Richard Winpenny professor. He was granted tenure and (Manchester University). In 2003, he was promoted to associate professor in awarded a Fellowship ‘‘Ramo´ n y Cajal’’ at August 2009. He is the recipient of the theUniversitatdeBarcelona,wherehehas 2012 Young Investigator in Separation been an Assistant Professor since 2007. He Science Award given by the American received the 2008 ICREA Academia prize Chemical Society. His research interests for excellence in research and is the recipient include all aspects of separation science, of an ERC Starting Grant since 2011. the synthesis of new classes of ionic His research interests are the design and liquids and materials derived from synthesis of coordination complexes with polymeric ionic liquids, the use of ionic functional properties. liquids as catalytic solvents, and the use of ionic liquids in analytical extractions, purification, and chromatography. Gonen Ashkenasy earned his PhD in 2001 from The Weizmann Institute of Science. From 2001 to 2006 he was a postdoctoral fellow at The Institute (La Jolla, CA). He joined the Depart- ment of Chemistry at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in 2006, and in April 2011 was promoted to Associate Professor. His lab interests are focused

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on the design, synthesis and analysis of Luca Bernardi studied Industrial Chem- functional peptides and proteins for istry at the University of Bologna (Italy) Systems Chemistry. Prof. Ashkenasy is (MSc, 2000). He then carried out his a recipient, among others, of the HFSP PhD studies in synthetic organic chemistry Career Development Award (2007) and (Prof. A. Ricci) in Bologna, which were ERC Starting Grant (2010). completed in 2004. After a post-doctoral stay in Aarhus (Denmark, with Prof. K. A. Jørgensen) he went back to Bologna, where he was appointed assistant professor in 2011. Luca is mainly working on the development of new organocatalytic enantioselective reactions and on the observation of chemical processes occurring in biological settings to develop new chemistry. He believes that many key issues in synthetic organic Craig Banks is currently a Reader in chemistry are still waiting for a satis- Chemistry at The Manchester Metro- factory solution. politan University and has published over 200 papers with an h-index of 35 (as of Jan 2011), inventor of 13 patents and recently co-authored the book Understanding Voltammetry (1st Edition Omar Azzaroni studied chemistry at the Sept 2007; 2nd Edition Dec 2010). Craig Universidad Nacional de La Plata is a Fellow of The Royal Society of (Argentina), receiving his PhD in 2004 Chemistry (FRSC) and an Editorial for research involving the use of self- Board Member of the RSC journal assembled monolayers in alternative Analytical Methods. Craig was awarded nanofabrication techniques. For his the Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize in thesis work he was awarded the 2005 2011 for his contributions to the under- Honorable Mention of the IUPAC Prize standing of carbon materials, in parti- for Young Chemists. His postdoctoral cular graphene and its application as an studies were carried out at the University electrode material. Craig’s research is

Published on 11 January 2012. Downloaded 26/10/2014 23:31:13. of Cambridge (2004–2006, Marie Curie diverse ranging from Forensic Science Research Fellow) and the Max Planck (BloodPattern Analysis and drug of Institute for Polymer Research (2007, abuse detection) through to micro- Alexander von Humboldt Research fabrication utilising screen printing and Michael Best received his BS in Chemistry Fellow). In 2008, he moved back to the pursuit of studying the fundamental from Boston College, where under- Argentina as a staff scientist of understanding and applications of graduate research involved the synthesis CONICET and established the Soft nano-electrochemical systems such as of fullerene derivatives in the lab of Prof. Matter Laboratory of the Instituto de graphene, carbon nanotube and nano- Laurence T. Scott. He next obtained his Investigaciones Fisicoquı´ micas Teo´ ricas particle derived sensors. PhD from the University of Texas at y Aplicadas (INIFTA). Since 2009, he is Austin working with Prof. Eric V. also the head of a Max Planck Partner Anslyn on the development of molecular Group working in INIFTA and Assistant sensors for analyte detection. Following Professor of Physical Chemistry at this, he performed post-doctoral work at UNLP. His research interests include the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla thin polymer films, biorecognition- with Prof. Chi-Huey Wong, which driven assembly on surfaces, nano- focused on the development of carbo- structured hybrid interfaces, supra- and hydrate microarrays and inhibitors of macromolecular materials science and sulfotransferase enzymes. In 2005, he soft nanotechnology. More information joined the faculty at the University of can be found at: http://softmatter.quimica. Tennessee at Knoxville, where his unlp.edu.ar group’s research generally involves the design, synthesis and study of synthetic probes of use for understanding bio- logical processes, particularly those involving lipids.

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(2005) with Prof. T. Don Tilley. After a Stephen Connon was born in 1976. He post-doctoral fellowship with Prof. received his PhD from University Daniel E. Morse at the University of College Dublin under the supervision of California, Santa Barbara, he began his Prof. A. F. Hegarty in 2000. After being independent career in 2007 at the Uni- awarded an Alexander von Humboldt versity of Southern California where he is fellowship he spent two years at the currently an Assistant Professor of Chem- Technische Universita¨ t Berlin with Prof. istry. The Brutchey group focuses on the S. Blechert. In 2003 he was appointed to synthesis, surface chemistry, and applica- the staff of Trinity College Dublin and tions of inorganic nanocrystals for solar was elected a fellow of TCD in 2007. In energy conversion and energy storage. He 2008 he received a European Research is the recent recipient of a Cottrell Scholar Council Starting Grant Award and in award by the Research Corporation for 2010 he was appointed Associate Profes- Science Advancement (2010). sor and later that year, Professor of Synthetic Chemistry. His research inter- Je´roˆ me Boisbouvier studied at Ecole ests include organocatalysis, the develop- Normale Supe´ rieure — Paris, where he ment of novel synthetic methodology received an interdisciplinary education in and the design of new chemotherapeutic chemistry, biology and physics. He agents. obtained his PhD from University of Grenoble in 2000 for research with Dominique Marion. He was a post- doctoral fellow in the research group of Dr Ad Bax at National Institute of Health in Bethesda (2001–2004), before initiating his independent career in Hongyu Chen was born in 1976 in France as a CNRS researcher. In 2010, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China. He he was promoted to Research Director at obtained his BSc from the University of CNRS and he is leading a team at the Science and Technology of China (USTC) Structural Biology Institute of Grenoble. in 1998 under Prof. Yitai Qian. He then His recent awards and distinctions moved to and studied Mn Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen is Professor include the bronze medal of CNRS for and water oxidation chemistry under the in Biomolecular Nanotechnology at the both chemistry and biology department, joint supervision of Prof. Gary W. Brudvig University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands. He studied chemistry at Published on 11 January 2012. Downloaded 26/10/2014 23:31:13. the Paoletti Prize for Life Sciences and and Robert H. Crabtree. After obtaining an ERC starting grant. His main his PhD degree in 2004, he worked as a the Radboud University Nijmegen, the research interests are in the field of post-doctoral fellow with Prof. Carl A. Netherlands where he received his PhD NMR Spectroscopy development and Batt in Cornell University on the topic of (cum laude) in 2001 for research carried application to the studies of complex protein-nanoparticle hybrids. In 2006, he out under the supervision of Prof. biological machineries. joined the Division of Chemistry and R. J. M. Nolte. After post-doctoral work Biological Chemistry in Nanyang Techno- at the IBM Almaden Research Center in logical University in Singapore, where he San Jose, USA he returned to Nijmegen, is currently an Associate Professor. His where he was appointed as an Assistant main research interest is in the develop- Professor until 2009. Jeroen Cornelissen ment of new synthetic methodologies for is the recipient of, among other prices, a nanostructures. EURYI Award, the Beijerinck Virology Premium from the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences and the Golden Medal of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society. His current research interests are in well-defined polymer architectures, hybrid systems of synthetic macromolecules and biopolymers and the use of viruses as building blocks in functional materials. Prof. Cornelissen is Richard L. Brutchey received his BS a member of editorial advisory boards of in chemistry from the University of the Journal of Materials Chemistry and California, Irvine (2000) with Prof. Chemical Society Reviews. FrankJ.FeherandhisPhDinchemistry from the University of California, Berkeley

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company SupraPolix in Eindhoven, and one of the top 50 most cited chemists of in the laboratory of Pathology and Med- the past 10 years (ISI web of knowledge, ical Biology at the University Medical December 2011). Center Groningen. In 2010 she worked in the research group of Prof. S. I. Stupp in the Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine at the Northwestern Univer- sity in Chicago. Her main scientific interests are in combining supramole- cular chemistry and regenerative medi- cine to design biomaterials that are indistinguishable from their natural counterparts.

Scott Dalgarno took his MChem and PhD at the University of Leeds before undertaking a postdoctoral position with Prof. Jerry Atwood at the University of Missouri from 2004 to 2007. He was then appointed to the post of Lecturer at Heriot-Watt University and sub- sequently promoted to Reader in Ma´te´Erde´lyi graduated in Pharmacy at Inorganic Chemistry in December 2010. Semmelweis University, Hungary, and His research in supramolecular chemistry obtained his PhD in organic chemistry currently focuses on the self- and metal- under the guidance of Prof. A. Gogoll directed assembly of calixarenes, with a from Uppsala University, Sweden, in particular view to forming novel nano- 2004. After one year of postdoctoral structures and polynuclear metal clusters research in physical organic chemistry with with interesting magnetic properties. Prof.C.L.PerrinattheUniversityof Mohamed Eddaoudi was born in Agadir, California, USA, he moved to the Max Morocco. He is currently a Professor of Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Chemical Science and Associate Director to learn NMR spectroscopy from Prof. C. of the Advanced Membranes and Porous Griesinger. Following an additional Materials Research Center at King postdoctoral project within structural Abdullah University of Science and Published on 11 January 2012. Downloaded 26/10/2014 23:31:13. biology under the mentorship of Prof. T. Technology (KAUST), Kingdom of Carlomagno, he initiated his independent Saudi Arabia. He received his doctoral career at the University of Gothenburg, degree in Chemistry from Denis Diderot Sweden. His current research is focused University (Paris VII), France. After on the solution investigation of weak, post-doctoral research at Arizona State secondary interactions as well as on University and University of Michigan, pharmaceutically relevant natural products. he started his independent academic career as an Assistant Professor in Chemistry at the University of South Florida in Fall 2002. He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2008 and then to Professor in 2010. His research focuses on developing strategies, Patricia Y. W. Dankers is assistant based on building block approaches, for professor in the Institute for Complex the rational construction of functional Molecular Systems and the Laboratory solid state materials. Their prospective of Chemical Biology, at the Eindhoven use includes applications pertaining to University of Technology. She studied energy sustainability and environmental chemistry at the Radboud University of security: Hydrogen storage, carbon Nijmegen, where she majored in bio- dioxide capture, gas separations, toxic chemistry and organic chemistry. During industrial chemical filters, sensing her PhD with Prof. E. W. Meijer she applications, and catalyst immobilization. Rudi Fasan received his BS/MS in combined her fascination for biochemistry Dr Eddaoudi’s contribution to the fast Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the and supramolecular chemistry. After her burgeoning field of Metal-Organic University of Padua in 1999. In 2005, PhD defense in 2006, she worked for the Frameworks is evident by his ranking as he earned his PhD in Bioorganic Chemistry

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working with Prof. J. A. Robinson at His research interests include the tailored northeast of the United States. He University of Zurich on synthesis of synthesis of inorganic nanoparticles, the carried out his undergraduate degree at beta-hairpin protein epitope mimetics. stabilisation and surface modification of the University of Zaragoza and com- He subsequently joined Frances H. nanoparticles, and the development of pleted his PhD work at the University Arnold’s group at California Institute novel applications, specifically in the of Bath under the watchful eye of Mike of Technology as postdoctoral fellow, fields of nanocomposites and functional Whittlesey. Following a postdoctoral where he developed and applied directed nanoparticle-based thin films. position with Slavi Sevov at the Univer- evolution methods to engineer bio- sity of Notre Dame (2003–2006), Jose catalysts for selective hydroxylation of was appointed to a University Lecture- gaseous alkanes. In 2008, he started his ship in Inorganic Chemistry at the Uni- independent career in the Department of versity of Oxford in late 2006. His Chemistry at the University of Rochester. research group is interested in low-valent His awards include Swiss National main-group and transition metal com- Science Foundation Graduate Fellow- plexes, with a particular focus on the ship (2001–2005), SNF Postdoctoral chemistry of multielement clusters. The Fellowship (2005–2006), Friedrich- Goicoechea group is particularly fasci- Weygand Outstanding Graduate Research nated by species with unique structure Award (2007), and Provost’s Multi- and bonding properties. He is pictured disciplinary Award (2011). Dr Fasan’s Subi Jacob George graduated in Organic alongside co-worker Rob Turbervill, research currently focuses on the chemistry from Mahatma Gandhi Uni- who did all of the synthetic work for synthesis, molecular evolution, and versity, Kerala. He completed his PhD the communication featured in this issue exploration of macrocyclic organo-peptide degree (2000–2004) under the guidance of ChemComm, and with whom he structures for modulation of protein- of Prof. Ajayaghosh. There his work shares an appreciation for the music of protein interactions and asymmetric focused on synthesis and self assembly Big Star. catalysis and the development of of p-conjugated materials such as Oligo P450-centered protein engineering and phenylenevinylenes (OPVs). Following chemo-enzymatic strategies for selective his PhD he had a post-doctoral stay at functionalization of aliphatic C–H bonds. the Laboratory of Macromolecular and Organic Chemistry, Eindhoven Univer- sity of Technology, The Netherlands, under Prof. Dr E. W. (Bert) Meijer and Dr Albert Schenning (2004–2008). Here his major impetus was on understanding concepts in supramolecular chirality. Published on 11 January 2012. Downloaded 26/10/2014 23:31:13. Thereafter, he joined as an Assistant Professor in New Chemistry Unit (NCU), Howard C. Hang is an Assistant Profes- Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced sor and Head of the Laboratory of Scientific Research (JNCASR), India. Chemical Biology and Microbial Patho- Since 2008 he has tried to expand his genesis. He obtained his BS degree in knowledge of supramolecular chemistry chemistry from the University of of p-conjugated materials and applied California, Santa Cruz 1998 with Profes- them in areas such as charge transfer sor Joseph P. Konopelski. In 2003, he assemblies, assembly of poly aromatic completed his PhD in chemistry at hydrocarbon derivatives and hybrid University of California, Berkeley with materials, keeping in mind the targets Professor Carolyn Bertozzi. During his Prof. Dr G. Garnweitner obtained his of supramolecular electronics and light graduate studies he was awarded an PhD degree at the Max Planck Institute harvesting materials. American Chemical Society, Organic of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam Division Graduate Fellowship. He then (Germany) in 2005 for his work on the worked with Professor Hidde Ploegh at Nonaqueous synthesis and formation Harvard Medical School and the mechanisms of transition metal oxide Whitehead Institute of Biomedical nanoparticles. Since 2007, he has held a Research at Massachusetts Institute of Junior Professor position — which is a Technology from 2004 through 2006 as German equivalent to an assistant profes- Damon Runyon Cancer Research sorship specifically established to foster Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. He the independent academic career of young joined the faculty at The Rockefeller researchers — working at the Institute Jose M. Goicoechea (left) was born in University in 2007. for Particle Technology, Technische Zaragoza (Spain) but spent a large Universita¨ t Braunschweig (Germany). portion of his formative years in the

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focuses on catalysis, mechanistic studies, Columbia, under the direction of Peter stereochemistry and nanotechnology. Legzdins. After graduating, he began a postdoctoral fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory, working under the direction of James M. Boncella. In 2006 he started a faculty position at University of California Santa Barbara, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. In this free time he enjoys Christian Hartinger studied chemistry at climbing mountains. the University of Vienna and received his PhD there in 2001 under B. K. Keppler. He was an Erwin Schro¨ dinger Fellow with P. J. Dyson at the E´ cole Poly- technique Fe´ de´ rale de Lausanne (EPFL) from 2006 to 2008, did his habilitation at the University of Vienna in 2009 and accepted a position at the University of Auckland in 2011. His research focuses on the development of metal-based anti- cancer agents and of analytical methods Chun-Yu Ho thanks Prof. Dan Yang and to characterize their behavior in presence Prof. Timothy F. Jamison who super- of biomolecules. His work earned him vised him on organocatalytic asymmetric the 2011 Carl Duisberg Memorial Prize. epoxidation and nickel catalyzed aldehyde-alkene coupling at The Univer- sity of Hong Kong (BSc 2000, PhD 2005) and MIT (post-doc 2005–2007), respec- tively. He is now a Research Assistant Professor in The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and is the recipient of The Anja Hoffmann-Ro¨der (1972) is W2 Croucher Foundation Fellowship and Tenure Track Professor within the Asian Core Program Lectureship Department of Chemistry at the Award. His current research interests Ludwig-Maximilians-University LMU Munich. She studied chemistry at the Published on 11 January 2012. Downloaded 26/10/2014 23:31:13. include NHC–M-catalyzed asymmetric synthesis, green chemistry, and colla- University of Bonn and received her borative research on drugs and inhibitors PhD from the University of Dortmund (chemical library synthesis by novel (2003) working on organometallic phosphonylation and cyanation methods chemistry with N. Krause. After post- development). doctoral work as an Emmy-Noether Fellow with F. Diederich at the ETH Zurich, she started her independent research on glycochemistry as a Liebig Fellow at the Johannes Gutenberg- Syuzanna R. Harutyunyan obtained her Universita¨ t Mainz in 2005. At Mainz, master degree in Pharmacology at she headed an independent Emmy- Yerevan State University, Armenia in Noether research group on carbohydrate 1999. After receiving in 2003 her PhD chemistry (2006–2011) and was finally in Chemistry with Professor Yuri N. appointed as a Junior professor for Belokon, Moscow, Russia she joined Bioorganic Chemistry (2009). In 2011, the group of Professor Ben L. Feringa she moved to LMU Munich. Her main at the University of Groningen as a research interests focus on the synthesis postdoc. In 2007 she accepted the posi- of tumour-related neoglycopeptides and tion of research scientist at Tibotec, carbohydrate antigen mimics for cancer Johnson&Johnson in Belgium. In 2010 immunotherapy. she joined the University of Groningen, Netherlands as an Assistant Professor. In 2011 she was awarded the Solvias Trevor Hayton was born in Ottawa, prize for her work on asymmetric Ontario in 1975. He received his PhD catalysis. Harutyunyan’s current work in 2003 from the University of British

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Ionic Liquid group of Prof. Douglas MacFarlane. In 2007 she was awarded an Australian Research Council Post- doctoral Fellowship to study ionic materials from the first principles and appointed as a lecturer in the School of Chemistry. Currently, Katya is a Senior Lecturer at Monash leading a research group that specialises in fully ab initio calculations of ionic liquids and liquid electrolytes.

Geoff Hyett was born in Stourbridge in Paul Ko¨gerler graduated with a Diploma the West Midlands and completed his and a PhD degree from the group undergraduate and post graduate of Achim Mu¨ ller at the University of degrees at the University of Oxford. He Bielefeld, after which he joined the is currently an inorganic and materials Magnetic Molecules program of the chemistry lecturer at the University of U.S. DOE Ames Laboratory at Iowa Leeds, having previously held a Ramsay State University as a postdoc. Since memorial research fellowship at UCL 2003 he co-headed the program as an and a sessional lectureship at Birkbeck, Associate Scientist and Principal Investi- University of London. His research gator. In late 2006 he returned to Germany interests include the synthesis of as a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at functional thin films using chemical RWTH Aachen University and Project vapour deposition techniques, and novel Leader for Molecular Magnetism at the mixed-anion solid state compounds — Peter Gru¨ nberg Institute at Research investigating the link between composi- Centre Ju¨ lich. His current research inter- tion and structure and their electronic, ests span the areas of metal oxide cluster magnetic and optical properties. chemistry, magnetism of molecule-based Elizabeth R. Jarvo earned her BSc materials and molecular spintronics. (Honours) from Acadia University working in the laboratory of Michael A. Kerr and was a summer NSERC Published on 11 January 2012. Downloaded 26/10/2014 23:31:13. student at Concordia University with Youla Tsantrizos. She carried out her PhD studies under the direction of Scott J. Miller at Boston College, developing new peptide-based catalysts for kinetic resolution of secondary and tertiary alcohols. In 2002 she began postdoctoral studies with Eric N. Jacobsen at Harvard University, and developed enantio- selective quinone Diels–Alder reactions, including application in the synthesis of colombiasin A. In 2005 she joined the faculty at the University of the California, Irvine, where her research program focuses on the development of new Dr Ekaterina (Katya) Izgorodina obtained catalytic reactions including palladium- Anke Krueger was born in 1973. She her PhD from the University of Mu¨ nster, catalyzed allylation, propargylation, and studied chemistry at TU Braunschweig in the field of Theoretical Chemistry cascade reactions and nickel-catalyzed and Bordeaux University and received a in 2004. Immediately after her PhD cross-coupling reactions for formation PhD in organic chemistry from TU Katya accepted a postdoctoral position of C–N and C–C bonds. Braunschweig in 2000 with Prof. with Prof. Michelle Coote at the Henning Hopf. After a postdoctoral stay Australian National University to study with Prof. Eiji Osawa at Toyohashi free radical and RAFT polymeri- University of Technology (Japan) she sation. In 2006 she moved to Monash joined Kiel University as a Liebig Fellow University as a Research Fellow in the and junior professor. Since 2008 Anke

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has been professor and head of the educated at a local state comprehensive University of Science and Technology nanocarbon materials group at the Insti- school before obtaining a first class (ECUST), Shanghai to start his inde- tute of Organic Chemistry of Wu¨ rzburg MChem degree at the University of pendent research. He is the author of University. Her main interests are the Leeds (1995–1999). He obtained his over 74 refereed articles, 3 reviews, and synthesis, characterization, and applica- PhD under the supervision of Prof. 12 patents. His current interests lie in tions of nanoscale carbon materials and D. S. Wright at the University of electroanalytical chemistry, biointerface/ related hydrocarbons. In her spare time Cambridge (2002), and was subsequently biointerphase, nanospectroelelctrochem- she plays the cello and studies Japanese a Junior Research Fellow and then istry, impedance spectroscopy, bio- culture and culinary art. temporary University Lecturer in molecular nano-optic-electro engineering Cambridge. In 2007, he was appointed systems, sensors for environmental rapid Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry at The detection, and nanopore single molecule University of Manchester. He was analysis. awarded the RSC’s Meldola Medal for 2006 and currently holds a Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers at the University of Regensburg, Germany (2010–2012). When not in the lab, he can usually be found training for a marathon. Scientific inspirations include Paul Dirac and Edward Frankland, and other role models include Neil Kinnock and Geoff Boycott.

Hon Wai Lam received an MChem degree in chemistry from the University of Oxford in 1998, where he conducted undergraduate research with Jeremy Robertson. He then moved to the Uni- versity of Nottingham to carry out his Minkui Luo obtained his BS degree in PhD studies, working under the direction organic chemistry at Fudan University in of Gerald Pattenden. There he completed 1999. He then traveled to the US to pursue his PhD in the field of bioorganic Published on 11 January 2012. Downloaded 26/10/2014 23:31:13. the total synthesis of the proposed struc- ture of amphidinolide A. In January and bioinorganic chemistry under the 2002, Hon moved to Harvard University guidance of Dr John T. Groves, at as a GlaxoSmithKline Postdoctoral Princeton. Then, in 2005, he joined the Fellow to work with David A. Evans laboratory of Dr Vern Schramm as a on asymmetric catalysis. In October postdoctoral fellow at the Albert 2003, Hon joined the School of Yitao Long received his BS degree (1989) Einstein College of Medicine. In 2008, Chemistry at the University of Edin- in chemistry from Shandong University, he started his independent career at the burgh where he is now a Senior Lecturer. MS degree (1996) and PhD degree (1998) Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer His group’s research interests are based in analytical chemistry from Nanjing Center. The current research in the Luo around the development of new synthetic University. After finishing his post- laboratory focuses on developing and methodology, asymmetric catalysis, and doctoral studies at Heidelberg Univer- implementing chemical tools to define, natural product synthesis. sity, Germany, he worked for five years perturb and manipulate epigenetic as a Research Scientist with the Depart- functions of protein methyltransferases ment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, for disease diagnosis and therapy. University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada. From 2006 to 2007, he was an Associate Specialist with the Department of Bioengineering and the Department of Chemistry, BioNanotech- nology Center, Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center, University of California, Dr Richard A. Layfield was born in Berkeley. Since 2008, he joined the Leeds, England, in 1977. He was faculty as a Professor at the East China

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interrupted, was the biomimetic chemistry, and in particular the realization of models of hydrolytic enzymes. Subsequently his interests broadened to supramolecular chemistry, namely chemosensors and receptors, and to nanoparticles. He is fascinated at the same time by the com- plexity and the self-organized nature of such objects and he thinks that they could open the way to the realization of intelli- gent molecular devices.

Jean-Franc¸ois Lutz is currently CNRS research director at the Institut Charles Giovanni Maglia studied Pharmaceutical Sadron in Strasbourg and head of the Pre- Chemistry at the University of Bologna, cision Macromolecular Chemistry group. Italy. He earned his PhD in Chemistry He received his doctoral degree from the from the University of Birmingham, UK, University of Montpellier II (France) in working with Professor Allemann in 2000 and his habilitation degree from the protein biophysics. After a brief spell in University of Potsdam (Germany) in 2009. Professor Engelborghs’ laboratory at the Before joining the Institut Charles Sadron, University of Leuven, Belgium, he joined he was first a post-doc in the group of Kris the laboratory of Professor Bayley at Matyjaszewski at Carnegie Mellon Univer- Oxford University, UK in the field of sity (2001–2003) and afterwards Group single-molecule nanopores sequencing. In Leader at the Fraunhofer Institute for 2010, after receiving an ERC starting Applied Polymer Research in Germany grant, Dr Maglia joined the University of (2003–2010). His current research interests Leuven as an Assistant Professor. Maglia’s Roman Manetsch received his PhD in include the synthesis of sequence-controlled interests focus on single-molecule protein Chemistry in 2002 from the University of and sequence-defined polymers, the design chemistry and biophysics, particularly Basel (Switzerland) developing antibody- of single chain polymer folding and the membrane proteins and nanopores, and catalyzed cylization reactions under the Published on 11 January 2012. Downloaded 26/10/2014 23:31:13. search for new macromolecular properties their applications in nanotechnology. guidance of Wolf-Dietrich Woggon. He in water. He is author of over 100 publica- then joined the group of K. Barry Sharp- tions, book chapters and patents. In 2008 he less at the Scripps Research Institute received the joint prize of the polymer divi- (USA) working on click chemistry. In sion of the French Chemical Society (SFC) 2005, he moved to the Department of and of the French Polymer Group (GFP). Chemistry at the University of South Since November 2010, he is also a grantee Florida as an assistant professor. His of the European Research Council (ERC). current research focuses mainly on organic chemistry and chemical biology addressing modern aspects of medicinal chemistry, hit-to-lead optimizations, and develop- ment of chemical probes for the study of specific proteins in complex biological matrices. Using synthetic chemistry in close conjunction with liquid chromato- Fabrizio Mancin was born in a small graphy with mass spectrometry detection village close to Bologna in 1970. School, (LC/MS), the Manetsch laboratory university, PhD (with Umberto Tonellato), developed kinetic target-guided synthesis, assistant professor and then associate a fragment-based screening platform, professor of organic chemistry (since targeting protein-protein interactions 2010) all at the University of Padova, in associated with apoptosis. Furthermore, respect of the best Italian mobility tradi- the Manetsch laboratory is pursuing tion. Sole exception: a post-doc at the structure-activity and structure-property University of Toronto with Jik Chin. relationship studies to develop orally bio- His first research love, which was never available anti-malarial agents.

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Prof. T. Daniel P. Stack. After obtaining his PhD in Chemistry in 2005, he was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at University of California, Berkeley with Prof. . He has been at Washington University in St. Louis since 2008. His current research interests include the development of novel organometallic and bioinorganic metal complexes in uncommon oxidation states for applica- tions in renewable energy catalysis.

Daniel Jose´Mindiola was born and raised in Venezuela and left for Michigan (USA) in 1989 with his mother, shortly after the violent riots in Caracas known as the ‘‘Caracazo’’. After completing high-school Oscar Navarro was born in Barcelona in Ovid-Elsie (Michigan), Daniel obtained (Spain) in 1975. He obtained his PhD in a BSc in chemistry with honors from 2005 under the supervision of Steve Nolan Michigan State University where he was at the University of New Orleans (USA). also introduced to research by Prof. Kim After postdoctoral studies at Boston Dunbar. Daniel then obtained a PhD College and the University of California at the MIT under the auspice of Prof. at Irvine, in 2007 he was appointed Assis- Christopher Cummins, and completed a tant Professor at the University of Hawaii two-year NIH and FORD postdoctoral at Manoa, where his research focuses on stint with Prof. Gregory Hillhouse at the the design and synthesis of novel transition University of Chicago. In 2002 he metal-based catalytic systems and their launched his independent career at Indiana application in new methodologies in University investigating organometallic organic synthesis and polymerization. In transformations with early-transitions Dr Stephen A. Moggach received his BSc his spare time, he enjoys with his wife and metals. In 2007 Daniel was tenured and degree in Applied Chemistry from The daughter the countless outdoor activities promoted to full professor in 2011. Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, in that the islands have to offer. 2002. From 2002–2006, he did his PhD Published on 11 January 2012. Downloaded 26/10/2014 23:31:13. under the supervision of Professor Simon Parsons at the University of Edinburgh in the field of high-pressure crystallo- graphy, where he studied the effect of pressure on amino acids. In 2006, he began a postdoctoral research fellowship in the same group studying the effect of pressure on single molecule magnets. In 2008 he received a Royal Society of Edinburgh/Scottish Government Perso- nal Research Fellowship to study the effect of pressure on porous materials, Charlie O’Hara was born in Bellshill, winning the CCDC Chemical Crystallo- Scotland in 1978. He obtained his BSc graphy Prize for Younger Scientists in (Hons) in 2000 and PhD (Prof. R. E. 2010 for his work in this field. He has Mulvey) in 2004 from the University of recently been appointed as a lecturer in Strathclyde. After postdoctoral fellowships Inorganic Chemistry at the University of at Strathclyde and the University of Bath Liviu M. Mirica received his BS in Chem- Edinburgh in 2011. (Prof. M. G. Davidson) he was appointed istry from California Institute of Tech- to a fixed-term Lectureship at Strathclyde nology in 1999, performing research in (2006). He subsequently obtained an the laboratory of Prof. Harry Gray. He EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship then moved to as a (2011) and was promoted to Senior John Stauffer Graduate Fellow to study Lecturer (2011). His research focuses on the reactivity of small molecule mimics of the design, isolation and utilisation of copper enzymes in the research group of s-block mono- and bimetallic systems.

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career in 2008 as a lecturer in Organic des Sciences Mole´ culaires (Bordeaux, Chemistry and Chemical Biology at The France) where his team focuses on the University of Sydney, Australia. Dr Payne developmentofsyntheticmethodsand has been the recipient of several prestigious their application in the frame of sustainable awards including the Biota Medal in chemistry (Boron chemistry, microfluidic Medicinal Chemistry (2008), a NSW systems). Apart from chemistry, Mathieu Young Tall Poppy Science Award (2010) is passionate about freshwater shrimps and and the Royal Australian Chemical Insti- South American dwarf cichlids. tute Rennie Memorial Medal (2011).

Martin J. Paterson was born in Stirling, Scotland and obtained his PhD in theore- tical chemistry, from the University of London, in the field of non-adiabatic photochemistry. Following this he worked at King’s College London, and Imperial College London, involving relating photostability mechanisms to the topology of conical intersection seams. In 2005 he moved to the University of Aarhus, Denmark where he worked on response Roberto Quesada received his PhD in theory. In 2006 he joined Heriot-Watt Chemistry in 2002 from the University University, where he is currently a Reader of Oviedo under the guidance of Prof. in theoretical chemistry. In 2010 he was Javier Ruiz and Prof. Vı´ ctor Riera. After awarded a European Research Council E. James Petersson received his under- postdoctoral research at Trinity College fellowship. His research focuses on all graduate education at Dartmouth College. Dublin with Prof. Sylvia M. Draper and aspects of light induced chemistry, in parti- He then studied under Dennis Dougherty he joined Prof. Philip A. Gale’s group at cular theoretical and computational at the California Institute of Technology. the University of Southampton as a spectroscopy, and photochemistry. After earning his PhD in 2005, he was an postdoctoral scholar. In 2006 he was NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale Univer- awarded with a Juan de la Cierva con- sity with . His appoint- tract at the Universidad Auto´ noma de ment as Assistant Professor at the

Published on 11 January 2012. Downloaded 26/10/2014 23:31:13. Madrid and in 2008 he moved to the University of Pennsylvania began in 2008. University of Burgos as Ramon y Cajal Fellow. His research interests include synthetic chemistry and supramolecular chemistry in lipid bilayer membranes.

Dr Richard Payne obtained his under- graduate degree from The University of Mathieu Pucheault was born in Villeneuve Canterbury, New Zealand in 2001. In St Georges (France) in 1979. After gradu- 2003, Richard was awarded a Gates ating from the Ecole Normale Supe´ rieure Scholarship to carry out his PhD studies (Paris, France), and getting a PhD in orga- at the University of Cambridge under the nometallic catalysis under the direction of supervision of Professor Chris Abell. Prof. J.-P. Genet, he studied chemical After 18 months as a Lindemann Fellow biologyinDrCraig.M.Crews’groupat at The Scripps Research Institute Yale University (New Haven, USA), Maarten Roeffaers, born in 1981, (under the guidance of Professor Chi-Huey before becoming a CNRS Researcher in obtained his BSc and MSc degree from Wong) he began his independent academic 2006. Currently, he settled at the Institut the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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(Belgium). He graduated with a PhD in various prizes, including the young Bioscience Engineering from the same uni- scientist awards at EMRS (1998) and versity in 2008. During his PhD research MRS (2000) as well as the IUPAC Prize he developed assays and techniques to for Young Chemists 2001, the Vincenzo study catalytic processes using fluorescence Caglioti award 2006 granted by the microscopy. This work was performed Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the under the scientific supervision of Prof. ‘‘Nicolo` Copernico’’ award 2009 for his Dirk De Vos and Prof. Bert Sels (Depart- discoveries in the field of nanoscience and ment of Molecular and Microbial systems) nanotechnology, the prix ‘‘Guy Ourisson’’ and Prof. Johan Hofkens (Department of 2010 du Cercle Gutenberg and the ERC Chemistry). During his postdoc he moved starting grant 2010. to the lab of Prof. Sunney Xie at Harvard University to master non linear Raman microscopy. He has recently returned to Tsuyoshi Takahashi was born in Kanagawa, the K.U. Leuven as an assistant professor. Japan, in 1972. He received his BS degree in His research focuses on the in situ spectro- 1996, MS in 1998, and Dr Eng in 2001 at scopic and microscopic investigation of Tokyo Institute of Technology under catalytic processes and this mainly via the supervision of Associate Professor optical techniques. Next to developing a Hisakazu Mihara. He was a research better understanding of the catalysts per- fellowship of the Japan Society for the formance, he also uses light to enable Promotion of Science (JSPS) for Young photocatalytic process. Scientist (2000–2002). He was appointed an assistant professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology (2002–2010). Currently, he is an associate professor at Gunma University. His current research interest is design of peptides and proteins capable of reducing Ab toxicity and detecting Ab aggregates in vivo. Shinsuke Sando received his PhD (2001) from Kyoto University in bioorganic chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Isao Saito, and he was a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Eric T. Published on 11 January 2012. Downloaded 26/10/2014 23:31:13. Paolo Samorı` (Imola, Italy, 1971) is full Kool at Stanford University, where he professor (PR1) and senior member as investigated RNA-templated chemistry. well as director of the Institut de Science In 2002, he joined the laboratory of Prof. et d’Inge´ nierie Supramole´ culaires (ISIS) Yasuhiro Aoyama at Kyoto University as of the Universite´ de Strasbourg where he an Assistant Professor. He then moved to is also head of the Nanochemistry Kyushu University in 2009, and he is Laboratory. He is also a junior member currently a Professor of INAMORI of the Institut Universitaire de France Frontier Research Center at Kyushu Dean Tantillo was born and raised in (IUF) from 2010 till 2015. He obtained University. His current research objective Quincy, Massachusetts, USA. He received a Laurea in Industrial Chemistry at is to understand the basic mechanism of an AB degree in Chemistry in 1995 from University of Bologna in 1995. In 2000 biological functions at the chemistry Harvard University and a PhD in 2000 he received his PhD in Chemistry from (molecular) level. Towards this objective, from UCLA (under the direction of the Humboldt University Berlin. He was he has taken up the challenge to develop Kendall Houk). After receiving his PhD, permanent research scientist at Istituto new bio-imaging technologies for analysis he moved to Cornell University, where he per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattivita` of the dynamic activity of chemical com- carried out postdoctoral research with of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche pounds in cells or in vivo. In addition, Roald Hoffmann. He joined the faculty of Bologna from 2001 till 2008, and their application in noninvasive diagnosis at UC Davis in 2003, where he is now a Visiting Professor at ISIS from 2003 till and therapy for diseases is also a target. Professor of Chemistry. Professor Tantillo 2008. He has published 4150 papers on can often be found walking through the applications of scanning probe micro- woods touching terpenes and contem- scopies beyond imaging, hierarchical plating puzzling mechanistic questions in self-assembly of hybrid architectures at the areas of biosynthesis, reactive inter- surfaces, supramolecular electronics, mediate chemistry, catalysis, organometallic and the fabrication of molecular-scale chemistry, and stereoselective synthetic nanodevices. His work has been awarded reactions.

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Engineering, the Department of Energy the UK and he began work designing and Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Kyoto highly branched polymers for drug University. His research interests are in and gene delivery for application in the areas of supramolecular chemistry theranostics. Dr Thurecht currently and molecular electronics. holds a joint position with the Centre for Advanced Imaging (CAI) and the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) where he is a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. His current interests lie in developing polymer architectures for theranostics, with particular interest in MRI-based imaging.

Shane Telfer was born in Central Otago, New Zealand. He completed a BSc (Hons) and a PhD in Chemistry at the University of Canterbury, and is now an Associate Professor in Chemistry at Massey University. His research interests centre on synthetic chemistry, with Stephen P. Thomas is a Lecturer in a current focus on chromophoric Organic and Biological Chemistry at complexes of dipyrrin ligands and the University of Bristol. He received aspects of the chemistry of metal-organic his PhD from Churchill College, frameworks. Cambridge University in 2007 working with Dr Stuart Warren. He then under- took postdoctoral work with Professor Andreas Pfaltz at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His research interests Kelly Velonia received her PhD in chem- are focused on organometallic catalysis istry from the University of Crete in 1999 and mechanism, and the use of non- on mechanistic organic chemistry. In Published on 11 January 2012. Downloaded 26/10/2014 23:31:13. precious metals to replace and expand 2000 she joined the group of Prof. upon the reactivity of traditionally used R. J. M. Nolte at the Radboud Univer- 2nd and 3rd row transition-metals. sity Nijmegen, in 2001 she worked with Prof. F. C. De Schryver at the University of Leuven and in 2002 she returned to Nijmegen as a Marie Curie Individual Fellow. In 2004 Kelly joined the Depart- ment of Organic Chemistry of the University of Geneva as an Assistant Professor, while in 2007 she was appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Materials Science of the Jun Terao received his BSc (1994) and University of Crete and was tenured in PhD degree (1999) from Osaka Univer- 2010. Her current research is focused sity. After working as a postdoctoral on the construction of multifunctional fellow at Hokkaido University under Dr Kristofer Thurecht graduated from protein-polymer assemblies. Professor Tamotsu Takahashi, he joined the University of Queensland, Australia, the Graduate School of Engineering, the in 2005 with a PhD in polymer chemis- Department of Applied Chemistry, try. He took up a postdoctoral position Osaka University, as an Assistant Pro- in the UK working on polymer synthesis

fessor. From 2002 to 2003, he worked at in supercritical CO2 with Prof. Steve the University of Oxford with Professor Howdle at Nottingham University. In H. L. Anderson as a postdoctoral fellow. 2007, Dr Thurecht was simultaneously He was promoted to Associate Professor awarded a Ramsay Centenary Fellow- in 2008 in the Graduate School of ship and 1851 Research Fellowship in

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Yamamoto). He was a Postdoctoral Fellow Bo Zheng was born in 1976 in China. in Chemistry at Harvard University (with He studied chemistry at Peking University George M. Whitesides) from 2002–2006. with a BS degree at 1997. He obtained his He joined the Department of Biochemistry PhD degree in materials chemistry at Duke at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as University in 2002. He did postdoctoral an Assistant Professor in 2006 and also research with Prof. Rustem Ismagilov at became an Assistant Professor in the the University of Chicago. In 2005, Department of Biomedical Engineering at he joined the Chinese University of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Hong Kong as an assistant professor in 2008. His research interests are centered chemistry. In 2010 he was promoted to on the physiology and behavior of bacteria. associated professor. His research interests are primarily in bioanalysis using micro- fluidic techniques. Currently his research focuses on the structural and functional analysis of biomolecules, and the prepara- tion and kinetic studies of soft materials, Jonathan Weaver (born in Nottingham, UK such as gels and biomacromolecules. in 1979) is a Royal Society University Research Fellow at Imperial College London — a position he holds jointly between the Departments of Materials and Bioengineering (2010). He received his DPhil degree (2003) from the University of Sussex working with Professor Steven Armes. He movedtoUnileverResearchandDevelop- ment, Port Sunlight UK and then to a Research Fellowship position in the Centre for Materials Discovery at the University of Liverpool in 2006 working with Professor Andrew Cooper. His research interests are Wallace W. H. Wong is an Australian Solar inter-disciplinary and currently broadly Institute Research Fellow working at the focused around the application of synthetic University of Melbourne. He received his polymer chemistry and colloid and interface BSc at the University of Sydney in 2001 and science to address biomedical challenges. He his DPhil at the University of Oxford in the area of supramolecular chemistry in 2005. Published on 11 January 2012. Downloaded 26/10/2014 23:31:13. has a particular interest in the characterisa- tion and application of complex architecture After working in the area of fullerene chem- Andreas Zumbuehl studied chemistry and composition polymers, responsive mate- istry at ETH Zu¨ rich, Wallace returned to at ETH Zurich and Imperial College rials, nanoparticles and functional emul- Australia and began studies in the field of London. He then stayed at ETH and did sions. He is co-founder of Hydra Polymers organic electronics. The primary topic of his his doctoral work under the guidance of Ltd., 2007 and received the Macro Group current research is the design and synthesis Professor Erick M. Carreira. Two post- UK Young Researchers Medal in 2010. of organic photovoltaic materials with parti- doctoral stays followed, one in the group cular focus on methodologies and processes of Professor Robert S. Langer at MIT that lead to fully printed low-cost flexible Cambridge and a second with Professor devices. Joachim Seelig at the Biozentrum Basel. Since 2008 Andreas Zumbuehl is a Maıˆtre Assistant at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where he merges Organic Synthesis, Biomedical Engineering, and Biophysics in order to study the synthesis and the applications of artificial phospholipids.

Douglas Weibel received a BS degree in Chemistry from the University of Utah in 1996 and a PhD in Chemistry from Cornell University (with ) in 2002. From 1996-1997 he was a Fulbright Fellow at Tohoku University (with Yoshinori

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