Prof David Brynn Hibbert
University of New South Wales
Brynn Hibbert occupied the Chair of Analytical Chemistry at the University of New South Wales since arriving from England in 1987 until his retirement in 2013. His research interests are in metrology and statistics in chemistry, and electrochemistry, but he also does a sideline in expert opinion, scientific fraud and presenting science to the public. Long a member, and now Emeritus Fellow, of IUPAC he has helped name elements, revise the SI units and write the terminology of analytical chemistry as editor of the “Orange Book”. As a go-to expert witness in analytical chemistry, in particular in matters of drugs (of abuse, and sports), Professor Hibbert has also published in the forensic literature. He is a Past President of the Royal Society of New South Wales and was made a member of the Order of Australia in 2018. He has published more than 300 papers, 6 books and 3 patents.
Dr Fun Man Fung
National University of Singapore
Dr. Fung is a chemistry education researcher at NUS, well-known for his dedication to enhancing science education through the integration of digital tools. He earned his Ph.D. from NUS Chemistry and MSc. from Technical University of Munich, Germany. He is the lead editor of the book "Technology-Enabled Blended Learning Experiences for Chemistry Education and Outreach" (Elsevier). Dr. Fung is an elected council member of the Singapore National Institute of Chemistry (SNIC), and received the 2023 NUS High Inspiring Research Mentor Award and the Global Young Academy Membership (2024-2029) hosted at the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Halle (Saale).
Prof Gabriele Centi
Università degli Studi di Messina
Gabriele Centi is a Full Professor of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Messina (Italy), former President of the European Research Institute of Catalysis (ERIC aisbl) and former of the International Association of Catalysis Societies (IACS). He was the Coordinator of the Network of Excellence on Catalysis IDECAT and of several EU projects. He was the Chair of the Editorial Board of ChemSusChem and is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Energy Chemistry (Elsevier). He was the Chairperson of various international meetings on catalysis on catalysis and has authored over 650 scientific publications. His current h-index (Google Scholar) is 100, with over 40000 citations.
Prof Habibah A Wahab
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Professor Habibah A Wahab, FASc. the present Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research and Innovation, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), obtained her PhD in Pharmaceutical Technology from the University of London in 1999. In 1999, Habibah joined USM, as a lecturer at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences where she found a research group “Pharmaceutical Design and Simulation (PhD)” which focuses on research on drug discovery and delivery especially those focus on the utilization of structural bioinformatics. In 2002, she helped established Laboratory of Biocrystallography and Structural Bioinformatics which later in 2008 became Centre for Chemical Biology, USM. Habibah was seconded twice to Ministry of Science of Technology and Innovation; first in 2008-2010 as Director and in 2012-2014, as Director General of Malaysian Institute of Pharmaceuticals and Nutraceuticals.
Prof Luisa Torsi
Università degli Studi di Bari
Luisa Torsi is a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Bari and president of the Regional Center on Single-Molecule Digital Assay. She received her laurea degree in Physics and the PhD in Chemistry from UNIBA and was post-doctoral fellow at Bell Labs in USA. In 2010 Torsi was awarded the Merck prize and in 2019, she received the Distinguished Women Award from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). Torsi is the winner of the Wilhelm Exner Medal 2021, a prize awarded since 1921 by the Austrian Industrial Association and the Premio del Presidente della Repubblica dell’Accademia dei Lincei. She is also a member of this Accademia. She was also president of the European Material Research Society. Torsi has authored ca. 260 papers, published also in Science and Nature journals. Her works collected almost 18.000 Google Scholar citations resulting in an h-index of 67. Gathered research funding for over 40 M€, comprises several national and European projects, mostly coordinated by her. Torsi is committed to the role-modeling for younger women scientists. In a recent campaign by Fondazione Bracco, she was featured in a story of TOPOLINO (Italian series of Disney comics), as “Louise Torduck”, a successful female scientist of the Calisota valley.
Prof Pierre Braunstein
Université de Strasbourg
Pierre Braunstein is Emeritus CNRS Research Director at the University of Strasbourg, where he remained for his whole career, except for one year at UC London and another at the TU Munich (with Prof. E. O. Fischer, Nobel Laureate). His research interests lie in the molecular chemistry of the transition and main group elements and their diverse applications, ranging from homogeneous catalysis to cluster-derived nanoparticles for heterogeneous catalysis and nanosciences. He has (co)authored over 650 scientific publications and review articles. He is a member i.a. of French Academy of Sciences and of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Dr Seamus Delaney
Deakin University
Seamus Delaney is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Education, Deakin University, Australia. Institutionally, Seamus serves as Science, Technology, Environmental Education (STEE) Discipline Head within the School. His research interests are teacher professionalisation, systems thinking-oriented teaching and learning approaches, and chemistry and science education in informal/out-of-school contexts. Seamus has numerous national advocacy roles promoting chemistry education, including with the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, is an Editor for the journal Chemistry Teacher International and is currently Secretary Elect of the International Organisation of Chemical Sciences in Development (IOCD).
Prof Uday Maitra
Indian Institute of Science
M. Phil/PhD from Columbia University with Prof. Ronald Breslow. Postdoctoral work at UC Berkeley with Prof. Paul Bartlett. Research interests: Chemistry of Bile acids; Organic-inorganic soft hybrid/composite materials; photoluminescent sensors. His group has developed low cost, paper based photoluminescent sensors for enzymes/bio-relevant small molecules (relevant to AMR). Greatly interested in Chemistry Education and runs a “Chemistry is Fun!” show in various locations in India and abroad. Elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy. Titular Member of the Committee on Chemistry Education of the IUPAC and is the current President of the Chemical Research Society of India.
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