Prof David Alan Winkler

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

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

Prof Zhaomin Hou

RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Japan