Prof David Alan Winkler
La Trobe University
Davis Winkler has an unusually broad formal training in chemistry, physics, chemical engineering, and radioastronomy. He is a Professor of Biochemistry & Chemistry at La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science at La Trobe University, an adjunct Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Monash Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, and a visiting Professor in Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham. He previously spent over 30 years at CSIRO applying computational chemistry, AI, and machine learning methods to the design of drugs, agrochemicals, nanomaterials, and biomaterials. He is ranked 136th out of 100,000 medicinal chemists (Stanford 2023). He has authored over 250 refereed journal articles and book chapters (6 that are ISI Highly Cited), has an H index of 62 (GS), and is an inventor on 25 filed patents. He has provided key IP for three biotech startup companies. His awards include the CSIRO Medal for Business Excellence, RACI’s Adrien Albert award for medicinal chemistry and a Distinguished Fellowship, the ACS Herman Skolnik award for excellence in cheminformatics, a Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) Distinguished Fellowship (bioengineering) and the AMMA Medal (molecular design). He is past President of the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies (FACS) and the Asian Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (AFMC), and past Chairman and Director of the RACI Board
Prof Gregory Scholes
Princeton University
Greg Scholes is the William S. Tod Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University. Originally from Melbourne, Australia, he later undertook postdoctoral training at Imperial College London and University of California Berkeley. He started his independent career at the University of Toronto (2000-2014) where he was the D.J. LeRoy Distinguished Professor. He was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters in 2019. Dr. Scholes was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (London) in 2019 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2009. He served as Chair of Department at Princeton 2020-2023 and Director of an Energy Frontier Research Center (BioLEC) since 2018
Prof Peter Mahaffy
King's University
Peter Mahaffy is a 3M National Teaching Fellow, Professor of Chemistry at the King’s University in Edmonton, Canada, and director of the King’s Centre for Visualization in Science (www.kcvs.ca), which provides digital learning resources used by a half-million students, educators, and the public from over 100 countries each year. His current research and professional work is at the interfaces of chemistry education, systems thinking and sustainability, the uses of interactive visualization tools to facilitate the learning of science, and the responsible uses of chemistry. Mahaffy served for six years as chair of the International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry’s (IUPAC) Committee on Chemistry Education (CCE) and member of the IUPAC Bureau. He was a charter member of the International Council of Science (ICSU) Committee on Freedom and Responsibility in the Conduct of Science and served on the working group on education and outreach for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013. He is presently co-chair of an IUPAC project on systems thinking and sustainability in chemistry and a titular member of the IUPAC Committee on Ethics, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. His work has been recognized with national and international awards from the Chemical Institute of Canada, College Chemistry Canada, the American Chemical Society, and IUPAC. In March 2025 he will receive the ACS George C. Pimental Award for outstanding contributions to chemistry education.
Prof Zhaomin Hou
RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Japan
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