Prof Chi-Huey Wong

Dr. Wong is currently the Scripps Family Chair Professor of Chemistry. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Taiwan University, Ph.D. in Chemistry from MIT and postdoctoral training at Harvard University. His research interest is to develop new methods for making and studying complex carbohydrates and glycoproteins. He received the US Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, ACS AC Cope Medal, Wolf Prize in Chemistry, Robert A. Welch Award and Tetrahedron Prize in Chemistry. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the US National Academy of Sciences.

Prof Christine K Luscombe

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 Eiichi Nakamura

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

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Prof Lisa Hall

Professor Lisa Hall leads Cambridge Analytical Biotechnology (CAB) at the University of Cambridge, focusing on mechanisms enabling biology to interface with bioelectronics in in vitro diagnostics. CAB has a special interest in improving access to diagnostics in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Lisa was the recipient of a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List (2015), for services to Higher Education and to Sport for the Disabled. In December 2022 she was announced as winner of the 2022 MRC Millennium Medal. Lisa also won the Gold Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry (Analytical Division) in 2005 and served as Vice President of the Analytical Division of Royal Society of Chemistry (2006–08). She received the Alec Hough-Grassby Memorial Award from the Institute of Measurement and Control in 2009 and in 2020, the Oxburgh Medal for outstanding contribution to measurement, instrumentation and control in the field of environmental science and engineering.

Prof Peter Mahaffy

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 Veronique Gouverneur

Véronique Gouverneur secured a PhD in chemistry at the Université Catholique de Louvain (LLN, Belgium) under the supervision of Professor Léon Ghosez. In 1992, she moved to a postdoctoral position with Professor Richard Lerner at the Scripps Research Institute (California, USA). She then took a position of Maître de Conférence at the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg (France); during this period, she worked with Dr Charles Mioskowski and was Associate Member of the “Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires” led by Professor Jean-Marie Lehn. She started her independent research career at the University of Oxford in 1998 in the Department of Chemistry and was promoted to Professor of Chemistry in 2008. She also held a tutorial fellowship at Merton College Oxford until 2022. Since 2022, she became the Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at Magdalen College. Her research aims at developing new approaches to address long-standing problems in the sustainable synthesis of fluorinated molecules including pharmaceutical drugs, probes for imaging (Positron Emission Tomography) and components for material sciences. She has authored > 230 peer-reviewed publications and patents. Her research was rewarded by numerous prizes and distinctions, including the ACS Award for Creative work in Fluorine Chemistry 2015, RSC Tilden Prize 2016, RSC Organic Stereochemistry Award 2019, Prelog Medal 2019, Henri Moissan Prize in 2021, Arthur C. Cope Award 2022, EuChemS Female Organic Chemist of the Year Award (EuChemS) 2022, Prous Institute - Overton and Meyer Award for New Technologies in Drug Discovery 2024, and the Royal Society Davy Medal 2024. Véronique was elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) in 2017, Fellow of the Royal Society in 2019 and International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022.

Prof Zhaomin Hou

RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Japan