Chemistry for the Next Decade and Beyond: International Perceptions of the uk chemistry Research Base
Annex B: Brief Biographies of Panel Members
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- PROFESSOR MAGID ABOU-GHARBIA
- PROFESSOR ERICK M. CARREIRA
- PROFESSOR SYLVIA T. CEYER
- PROFESSOR VICKI L. COLVIN
- PROFESSOR GRAHAM R. FLEMING
- PROFESSOR ANDREW B. HOLMES
- PROFESSOR GOVERDHAN MEHTA
- PROFESSOR E.W. BERT MEIJER
- Professor HELMUTH MöHWALD
- PROFESSOR MICHELE PARRINELLO
- PROFESSOR BERNARD RAVEAU
- PROFESSOR GIACINTO SCOLES
- PROFESSOR James A. WELLS
Annex B: Brief Biographies of Panel MembersEPSRC International Review of CHEMISTRY 19 – 24 APRIL 2009 Professor MICHAEL l. KLEIN (Chair) P  rofessor Michael Klein received his formal education in the United Kingdom and after postdoctoral periods in Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States began an independent research career at the National Research Council of Canada. In 1987 he joined the University of Pennsylvania, where since 1993 he has been Hepburn Professor of Physical Science and Director of the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter. In the latter capacity he is responsible for nurturing collaborative interdisciplinary materials research involving faculty from the Schools of Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Medicine. His research is focused on the computer modelling of physical and biological systems from a molecular perspective.
Professor Klein serves on many academic and government review panels and advisory boards internationally. He is a Fellow of several learned societies, including the Royal Society (London), the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada, the Indian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and TWAS, the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World. PROFESSOR MAGID ABOU-GHARBIA P  rofessor Magid Abou-Gharbia received his BS in Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1971, MS in Medicinal Chemistry in 1974 from the faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, and PhD in 1979 from the University of Pennsylvania under Professor Madeleine Joullié followed by a two-year NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship at Temple University Medical School. Professor Abou-Gharbia joined Wyeth Drug Discovery and Development in 1982 as senior scientist and advanced through roles of increasing responsibility to Senior Vice President & Head of Chemical & Screening Sciences. In this position, he built a strong multi-disciplinary Chemical & Screening Sciences (CSS) organisation. During his tenure Professor Abou-Gharbia fostered a highly creative environment based on modern drug discovery technologies and enhanced chemistry skills and capabilities via the recruitment of high calibre scientists. He oversaw the research efforts of over 500 scientists at four Discovery Research sites in Collegeville, PA; Princeton, NJ; Pearl River, NY, & Cambridge, MA and 150 chemists at GVK Bio in Hyderabad, India. In September 2008 Professor Abou-Gharbia joined Temple University as tenured Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Director of their newly created Centre for Drug Discovery Research (CDDR).
Over the years Professor Abou-Gharbia’s group research efforts led to the discovery of four marketed drugs and many compounds currently under clinical evaluation including: first-in-class antidepressant Effexor®; the anticancer agent Mylotarg®; an anticancer rapamycin derivative, Torisel™ (temsirolimus); an SNRI anti-depressant, Pristiq® (DVS-233); a broad spectrum antibiotic Tygacil®, and a non-steroidal HRT Viviant™, (Bazedoxifene®). Professor Abou-Gharbia’s scientific contributions include over 180 invited lectures, presentations and publications; inventor on 99 US issued US patents and over 350 patents worldwide. Awards include: Science and Technology Medal from the R&D Council of New Jersey (2008); selected among the Top 10 Scientists in New Jersey by New Jersey Business Magazine (2008); Induction to ACS Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame (2008); ACS Heroes of Chemistry (2008); Alfred Burger Award in Medicinal Chemistry (2008); American Institute of Chemists (AIC) Chemistry Pioneer Award (2007); Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC 2006); Researcher of the Year (2006) from Health Care Institute of NJ (HINJ); Trailblazer Award (2006) from Science Spectrum; Induction into the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame (2004); The Procter Medal (2003); ACS Earle B. Barnes Award (2001); Philadelphia Organic Chemists Club (POCC) Award (2001); Egyptian Pharmaceutical Society Drug Discovery Award (2000); Named as one of the most Prolific Inventors of the Decade by US Patent & Trade Mark (1998); ACS Philadelphia Section Award (1997); Wyeth-Ayerst Exceptional Achievement Award (1992); and others. Scientific and Professional activities include membership on C&E News Advisory Board; Dow’s Womens Advisory Board; UK Research Council Review Board; ACS Corp. Associates & Award Canvassing Committees; SFN; AAAS; NYAS; The Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)p; Board of Visitors, Temple University School of Pharmacy; and the Editorial and Scientific Advisory Boards of many journals. Academic Appointments include Adjunct Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Northeastern University, Centre of Drug Discovery (CDD), Cairo University and the University of Ferrara, IT. PROFESSOR ANNA BALAZS P Professor Balazs received a Masters of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and went on to earn her PhD from the same university. Her postdoctoral research was completed at Brandeis University, MIT, and the University of Massachusetts. She has also held the position of visiting professor at the Scripps Research Institute, the University of Texas at Austin, and University of Oxford, UK. The research interests of Professor Balazs centre on theoretical and computational modelling of the thermodynamic and kinetic behaviour of polymer blends and composites. She is also investigating the properties of polymers at surfaces and interfaces. Specifically, ongoing projects involve: predicting the phase behaviour of polymer/clay nanocomposites, determining the kinetic behaviour of binary mixtures containing solid particles, designing polymeric inhibitors to prevent cell-virus contact, tailoring the interactions between polymer-coated colloids, promoting adhesion at polymeric interfaces, designing patterned polymer films and investigating the tribological behaviour of polymer interfaces. PROFESSOR ERICK M. CARREIRA P  rofessor Erick M. Carreira obtained a B.S. degree in 1984 from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign under the supervision of Scott E. Denmark and a PhD degree in 1990 from Harvard University under the supervision of David A. Evans. After carrying out postdoctoral work with Peter Dervan at the California Institute of Technology through late 1992, he joined the faculty at the same institution as an assistant professor of chemistry and subsequently was promoted to the rank of associate professor of chemistry in the Spring of 1996, and full professor in Spring 1997. Since September 1998, he has been professor of chemistry at the ETH Zürich. Most recently, he is the recipient of the Tetrahedron Chair Award, Thieme Prize, the Springer Award, American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry, Nobel Laureate Signature Award, Young Investigator Awards from Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, as well as Astra Zeneca, and a recipient of the David and Lucile Packard foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering.
The research programme is focussed on four interrelated areas of organic synthesis: catalysis, methodology, natural products synthesis, and bioorganic chemistry. Drawing heavily from the areas of organometallic and coordination chemistry, as well as molecular recognition, the group is developing novel catalytic and stoichiometric reagents for chemical synthesis. The group is particularly focused on the identification of novel chemical reactivity as the foundation for the development of practical, convenient catalytic processes employing readily available starting materials. The crafting of strategies for the total synthesis of natural products and their successful realisation in the laboratory not only provides opportunities in which to showcase the methods discovered and developed within the group, but also affords a platform on which to explore new reaction methodology. Additional research interests include the synthesis and study of small molecule modulators of pharmacokinetic properties in drug discovery. Professor Carreira has authored 160 research publications and holds 20 patents. PROFESSOR SYLVIA T. CEYER P  rofessor Sylvia T. Ceyer is the Associate Chair of the Department of Chemistry and the J. C. Sheehan Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her B.A. summa cum laude in chemistry from Hope College in 1974 and her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1979 under the advisement of Professors Y. T. Lee and G. A. Somorjai. After a postdoctoral appointment at the National Bureau of Standards, she accepted a position as assistant professor at MIT in 1981. Professor Ceyer is a physical chemist with research interests in the area of molecule-surface reaction dynamics as related to heterogeneous catalysis and the reactive molecular etching of silicon.
Professor Ceyer is a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and the former chair of its chemistry section, the secretary of the Physical and Mathematical Sciences Class of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a fellow of the American Physical Society. She has been awarded the J. Willard Gibbs Medal, the Hope College Distinguished Alumni Award, the Edgerton Prize, the American Association of University Women's Young Scholar Award and has been the holder of a Sloan Fellowship and a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award. Professor Ceyer has received the Baker Award for undergraduate teaching, the School of Science Teaching Prize and the Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education from the American Chemical Society. In 1998, she was named a MacVicar teaching fellow at MIT. Professor Ceyer is presently a member of the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee for the Department of Energy, and a member of the editorial board of Chemical Physics. Most recently, she served as an associate editor of Physical Review Letters, a member of the National Research Council's Benchmarking the Research Competitiveness of US Chemistry Committee, a member of the Program Committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a councillor of the American Physical Society. She has held numerous named lectureships including the Dreyfus Lecturer at Dartmouth University, Willard Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, Tetelman Lecturer at Yale University, Harkins Lecturer at the University of Chicago, Welch Foundation Lecturer, Chancellor's Distinguished Lecturer at the University of California Berkeley and the Langmuir Lecturer of the American Chemical Society. PROFESSOR VICKI L. COLVIN P  rofessor Vicki Colvin received her Bachelor's degree in chemistry and physics from Stanford University in 1988, and in 1994 obtained her PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. During her time at the University of California, Berkeley, Professor Colvin was awarded the American Chemical Society's Victor K. LaMer Award for her work in colloid and surface chemistry. Professor Colvin completed her postdoctoral work at AT&T Bell Labs.
In 1996, Professor Colvin was recruited by Rice University to expand its nanotechnology programme. Currently she serves as Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. Professor Colvin also serves as Co-Director of Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology and Director of the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN). CBEN was one of the first Nanoscience and Engineering Centers funded by the US National Science Foundation. One of CBEN's primary areas of interest is the application of nanotechnology to the environment. Professor Colvin has received numerous accolades for her teaching abilities, including Phi Beta Kappa's Teaching Prize for 1998-1999 and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award in 2002. She was named one of Discover Magazine's "Top 20 Scientists to Watch" and received an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 2002. Her research in low-field magnetic separation of nanocrystals was named Top Five (no. 2 of 5) Nanotech Breakthroughs of 2006 by Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report, and resulted in her being named 2007 Best & Brightest Honouree by Esquire Magazine; she was also named a Fellow in the Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2007-2008. Professor Colvin is also a frequent contributor to Science, Advanced Materials, Physical Review Letters and other peer-reviewed journals, having authored/co-authored over 75 articles, and holds patents to seven inventions. PROFESSOR GRAHAM R. FLEMING P In 1997 he moved to UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). At LBNL, he created the Physical Biosciences Division and was its Director from 1997-2005. From 2002-2005, he was also LBNL's Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Science and was appointed Deputy Laboratory Director from 2005-2007. At UC Berkeley, he has been the Director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) from 2000 to present. His research interests lie in ultrafast processes in condensed phases with particular emphasis on the primary steps of photosynthesis. He is an authority on ultrafast processes and has authored or co-authored over 400 publications. He has a BSc from the University of Bristol, and a PhD from the Royal Institution/University College London. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991, FRS in 1994, member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2007, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009.
P Professor Ford's research and teaching contributions have been recognised with a Dreyfus Foundation-Teacher Scholar award, with a Senior Fulbright Fellowship, by an A. von Humboldt-Stiftung US Senior Scientist Research Prize (1992,1999), with the 1992 Richard C. Tolman Medal of the American Chemical Society, by election as a Fellow of the AAAS (1993) and by the 2008 Award in Photochemistry of the InterAmerican Photochemical Society. In 1989, Professor Ford was the organiser and Chair of the 8th International Symposium on Photochemistry of Coordination Compounds and in 2001 he was Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms. For the period 2004-2006, Professor Ford served as President of the InterAmerican Photochemical Society.
P Professor Holmes' research interests span a range of natural and non-natural synthetic targets and his polymer research spans a range of functional and electroactive polymers. He was the recipient of a Leverhulme Royal Society Senior Research Fellowship for 1993/4, the 1994 Alfred Bader Award, the 1995 Materials Science Award, the 2003 Tilden Medal and the 2003 Macro Group Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was a 1999 Novartis Fellow, the Dauben Lecturer at Berkeley in 2000, the Aggarwal Lecturer at Cornell in 2002, Merck-Karl Pfister Lecturer at MIT in 2005. His collaborations in a number of successful EU research networks led to the joint award of the Descartes Prize 2003. In May 2000 he was elected FRS and in April 2006 was elected to the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering. He was appointed CSIRO Fellow in 2008. He was Chairman of the Editorial Board of Chemical Communications from 2000-2003, has served as a Principal Editor of the Journal of Materials Research (1994-2000) and as a member of the Board of Editors of Organic Syntheses, Inc., (1997-2001). Professor Holmes is currently an Associate Editor of Organic Letters and is a member of the editorial advisory board of Chemical Communications and the Australian Journal of Chemistry.
P A Fellow in India, he is an author of over 400 research papers in leading international journals and has delivered over 200 lectures in major conferences around the world. He has broad ranging interests in organic chemistry but the current focus is on natural products synthesis and design of new strategies for total synthesis. He has served on the Editorial boards of over a dozen leading Journals in chemistry. He has been the President of the Indian National Science Academy (1999-2001) and founding Co-Chair of the Inter Academy Council (IAC, 2001-2006). He is Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Fellow of TWAS and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is a recipient of over 40 medals/awards including the Trieste Prize in chemical sciences and the Centenary lectureship of the Royal Society of Chemistry and over a dozen Honorary Doctorate (D. Sc. h.c) degrees have been conferred on him. Until recently, he was the President of the International Council for Science (ICSU). PROFESSOR E.W. BERT MEIJER P Professor Meijer received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry in 1978 at the University of Groningen. From the same university he obtained his PhD degree cum laude in 1982. He performed his PhD research in the field of organic chemistry with a study on the chemiluminescence of 1,2-dioxetanes under the supervision of Professor Hans Wynberg. Professor Meijer started his career at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven (1982-1989), where he was active as research chemist in the field of functional organic materials, including (semi)- conducting polymers. From 1989 -1992 he was Head of the Department “New Materials” at DSM Research in Geleen, the Netherlands. In 1992, Professor Meijer started as Professor in Organic Chemistry in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at the Eindhoven University of Technology. In 2002 he was appointed also as Professor in the newly established Department of Biomedical Engineering in Eindhoven. From 2004, he was appointed as Distinguished University Professor of Molecular Sciences at his University. From 1995 Professor Meijer was also adjunct Professor in Macromolecular Chemistry at the Nijmegen University. He was a visiting professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium (1995), the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (1998) and the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (2003). From 2006 onwards, he was a distinguished visiting professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara and chairman of the External Scientific Board of Royal DSM. Professor Meijer’s main research interests are the design, synthesis, characterisation, and possible applications of supramolecular architectures, with special emphasis on chirality, dendrimers, π-conjugated oligomers and polymers, and hydrogen bonding architectures, and their use in functional materials and biomedical applications. Professor Meijer’s contributions to science are recognised with the Golden Medal of the Royal Dutch Chemical Society in 1993, the Arthur K. Doolittle award of the American Chemical Society in 1995 and the Silver Medal of the MacroGroup UK of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2000. In 2001, he was awarded with the prestigious SPINOZA-Award of the Dutch Science Foundation NWO. In 2006 he received the ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry. Professor Meijer is a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (since 1997) and in 2003 he was elected as member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Art and Sciences. Professor Meijer is a member of many editorial advisory boards, including Chemical Communications and Angewandte Chemie. Since 2005 he has been the Editor of Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry. PROFESSOR GERARD MEIJER P  rofessor Gerard Meijer is director of the department of Molecular Physics at the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Germany, since the summer of 2003. In his department, research is performed on the optical properties and dynamics of molecules, clusters and cluster-adsorbate complexes in the gas phase. Techniques are developed to achieve full control over neutral molecules in the gas phase.
Professor Meijer is an experimental physicist who obtained his PhD degree in 1988 from the University of Nijmegen in The Netherlands. He has worked on the high-resolution electronic spectroscopy of small gas-phase radicals and on imaging of density and temperature distributions of such species in combustion processes. During a post-doctoral stay at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San José, California, USA, he has been involved in the early development of laser desorption to bring thermally labile bio-molecules intact into the gas phase. In the early nineties he has been involved in the first optical, NMR and STM characterisation of fullerene molecules and crystals. He was installed as full professor in Nijmegen in 1995, and there he has developed a variety of sensitive laser-based detection schemes for gas-phase molecules, most notably variants of the cavity ring down method. As director of the FOM-Institute for Plasma Physics “Rijnhuizen” in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, (2000-2003), he has pioneered the use of infrared free electron lasers for the structural characterisation of gas-phase clusters, nanocrystals and bio-molecules. He has explored and developed the use of inhomogeneous electric fields to focus, decelerate and trap neutral polar molecules: different types of Stark decelerators, an electrostatic trap, and AC electric trap, a molecular storage ring and a molecular synchrotron have all been demonstrated in his laboratory. Professor Meijer holds a professor position at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and is (since 2004) honorary professor in experimental physics at the Free University in Berlin, Germany. He is corresponding member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, member of the international advisory board of the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences (Taipei, Taiwan) and of the Fritz Haber Minerva Centre for Molecular Dynamics (Jerusalem, Israel), member of the Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics board of the EPS, member of the advisory board of the Dutch research organisation FOM and he has been member of the NWO-Spinoza selection committee (2006-2008). He has been involved in the organisation of numerous (sessions at) international conferences and workshops. Professor HELMUTH MöHWALD P  rofessor Helmuth Möhwald completed his PhD at the Max-Planck-Institut of Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany, and habilitated in physics at the University of Ulm. From 1978 to 1981 he worked for Dornier Systems, Friedrichshafen, before returning to academia and taking up a Chair of Physical Chemistry at the University of Mainz in 1987.
Professor Möhwald has been director and a scientific member of the Memberships include President of the German Colloid Society (since 2004), Scientific Advisory Board and Jury of the Austrian Nano Initiative (since 2004) and Head of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hahn Meitner Institute, Berlin (since 2005). Professor Möhwald has received a number of awards including Honorary Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Chemistry) (2006), Prix-Gay-Lussac, French Ministry of Research and Technology in collaboration with the Alexander Humboldt Foundation (2007), Overbeek Medal of the European Colloid and Interface Society (2007) and Honorary Doctorate of the University Montpellier, France (2008). PROFESSOR MICHELE PARRINELLO P  rofessor Michele Parrinello is currently Professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Together with Roberto Car he introduced the ab-initio molecular dynamics method, which he is still developing and applying. This method, which goes under the name of Car-Parrinello Method, represents the beginning of a new field and has dramatically influenced the field of electronic structure calculations for solids, liquids and molecules. He is also known for the Parrinello-Rahman method of molecular dynamics, which permits the study of crystalline phase transitions under constant pressure. Professor Parrinello’s scientific interests are strongly interdisciplinary and include the study of complex chemical reactions, materials science and protein dynamics.
Professor Parrinello was born in Messina, Italy, and obtained his degree in physics in 1968 from the University of Bologna, Italy. Prior to moving to Switzerland in 2001 he was Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany, and before that his positions included research staff member at the IBM Research Laboratory in Zurich, Switzerland, and full professor at SISSA, Trieste, Italy. He has been a Visiting Scientist at Imperial College, London, England; Oxford University, England; Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, USA; IBM Research Laboratory, Yorktown, USA; and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. Early in his career Professor Parrinello studied, by purely theoretical means, quantum and classical many-body systems, and in particular ionic liquids, for which he developed successful approximations. He became interested in computer simulation while visiting the late Aneesur Rahman, one of the founding fathers of classical molecular dynamics. It was then that he developed the above-mentioned Parrinello-Rahman method, and also made a pioneering simulation of an F-center in ionic liquids, the first application of path integral methods to a realistic system. Back in Trieste he developed the so-called Car-Parrinello ab-initio molecular dynamics method, combining density functional electronic structure calculation and molecular dynamics methods in a way that greatly expanded the scope of both disciplines. Over the years he has applied the methods to solid and liquid semiconductors, structural phase transitions and hydrogen-bonded liquids, in particular water and water solutions. Lately he has paid increasing attention to the simulation of complex chemical and biochemical processes. On the methodological side his main present focus is the development of metadynamics, a new method for the study of rare events. For his research Professor Parrinello has been awarded numerous prizes, including the 2001 American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry, the 1995 Rahman prize of the American Physical Society and the 1990 Hewlett-Packard Europhysics prize. He is an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Member of several academies among which the British Royal Society and the Italian Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Professor Parrinello is on numerous advisory boards and on the editorial board of many scientific journals. He is author of more than 450 publications and is one of the most cited scientists in physics and chemistry. He has given lectures at most major industrial and academic laboratories, as well as plenary and invited talks at numerous important international meetings. PROFESSOR BERNARD RAVEAU P  rofessor Bernard Raveau received his formal education at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Caen as an Engineer, and received his PhD degree in physics in 1966. He was Director of the CRISMAT Laboratory associated with CNRS from 1986 to 2004 and, since 2001, is Director of the National Research Centre of Technology, CNRT “Matériaux”.
Professor Raveau is a specialist of crystal chemistry of transition metal oxides. His research is devoted to the synthesis of new materials with particular physical properties, to the non-stoichiometry phenomena and to the relationships between structure, chemical bond and physical properties. Author of over 1400 publications, and of numerous patents, Professor Raveau has written two books. His main results were first obtained on oxides with intersecting tunnels structure (cationic exchanges, ionic conductors), and on oxide bronzes especially phosphate bronzes which have then been studied by solid state physicists for their charge density phenomena and incommensurability. He discovered transition metal phosphates with mixed or unusual valence, which were then studied for their catalytic properties. Then in the last twenty years Professor Raveau discovered the mixed valent copper oxides, which were then studied by numerous physicists for their superconducting properties at high temperature (high Tc superconductors up to 135 K). He also studied the damage of such oxides by heavy ion bombardment, showing the possibility of enhancing the critical current by pinning the vortices in these materials. More recently he brought an important contribution to the discovery of colossal magneto resistance (CMR) effect in manganites, by doping manganese sites with different elements. Such materials appear as very promising for magnetic storage and detection. Finally, Professor Raveau discovered layered cobaltites, called “misfits”, whose remarkable thermoelectric properties are studied for energy conversion at high temperature. For his research he has been awarded by numerous Prizes, including the 1988 European Italgaz Prize, the 1994 Bernard Matthias Prize, the 1988 Silver Medal of CNRS, the 1993 Grande Médaille d’Or de la Société d’encouragement pour l’Industrie nationale. He is a member of several Academies, Academia Europea, Académie des Sciences of France, Institut de France, and National Academy of Science of India. He has been recently awarded as fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2008. He was also distinguished by the President of State of Normandy as Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Merite in 1988, and by the President of the French Republic as Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur in 2001. Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques. He is also Honorary Doctorate of several Universities. PROFESSOR GIACINTO SCOLES P Professor Scoles moved to Princeton University in 1986 and, soon after was instrumental in the establishment of the Princeton Materials Institute. One of the experiments that he brought to Princeton was the study of IR spectroscopy of molecules attached to inert gas clusters, particularly Ar and Xe clusters. In this work, he developed the now widely used “pickup technique and set the stage for his later pioneering work on superfluid helium nanodroplets, for which he recently shared the Ben Franklin Award in Physics with J.P.Toennies. At Princeton, Professor Scoles collaborated for almost 20 years with Kevin Lehmann on he subjects of Intramolecular Vibrational energy Redistribution and HENDI (HElium NanoDroplet Isolation) spectroscopy, and also began using Atomic Force Microscopy to study the interfacial behaviour of biomolecules. Starting in 2003, Professor Scoles took phased retirement from Princeton and returned part time to Italy, taking appointments at the Trieste Synchrotron Elettra and the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA). In SISSA he joined the Condensed Matter group where he began collaborating on theoretical problems dealing with helium nanodroplets and with physisorption. At the same time, he started an experimental group in Elettra, focusing on nanoscience, with particular attention to nanoscale biological processes, biophysics, and nanomedicine, efforts linked with the local Consortium of Molecular Biomedicine and with Temple University in Philadelphia, where he is Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Biology. Professor Scoles is, currently, Donner Professor of Science Emeritus at Princeton University and a collaborator with the International Center for Science and High Technology of the UN Industrial Development Organisation (ICS-UNIDO), an institution that favours technology transfer to developing countries and countries in economical transition. Professor Scoles is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a foreign member of the Academy of the Sciences of The Netherlands and the recipiant of two honorary doctorates. Among his many awards is the Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry of the ACS.
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rofessor Anna Balazs is a Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She is also the current Robert Von der Luft Professor in that department after serving as William Kepler Whiteford professor from 1999-2001.
rofessor Graham Fleming serves as Melvin Calvin Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Vice-Chancellor for Research at University of California, Berkeley. Professor Fleming joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1979. He served as the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of UC, since 1987. At UC, he served as the Chairman of the Chemistry Department. He was instrumental in the creation of UC's first new research institute in more than 50 years, the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics.
rofessor Peter Ford joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara after his PhD in Physical Organic Chemistry with Kenneth Wiberg at Yale University and an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Inorganic Chemistry with Henry Taube at Stanford University. He has been a Visiting Fellow of the Research School of Chemistry of the Australian National University, a Guest Professor at the University of Copenhagen, a visiting professor at the Universities of Regensburg and Muenster and a Guest Investigator at the US National Cancer Institute Radiation Biology Branch in Bethesda. At UC Santa Barbara, Professor Ford has served as the Department Graduate Advisor, Vice Chair and Chair and as Research Advisor for nearly 60 PhD graduates and numerous B.S., M.S. and postdoctoral students. Professor Ford's research has long been concerned with understanding the thermal and photochemical reaction mechanisms of organometallic and coordination compounds. His current interests include the bioinorganic chemistry of the nitrogen oxides, the catalytic conversions of biomass feedstock, and the photochemistry of metal based compounds.
r Henrik Hahn received his diploma in Process Engineering from the University of Hannover, Germany in 1993. After 5 years of scientific work in the field of rheology and obtaining a PhD 
rofessor Andrew Holmes obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees at the University of Melbourne where he worked with Professor L.M. Jackman. His PhD (1971) on heteroannulenes with Franz Sondheimer at University College London was supported by a Shell (Australia) Science Scholarship. The transition to natural products synthesis was made as a result of a postdoctoral spell at the E.T.H. working on the final stages of the synthesis of vitamin B12 with Professor A. Eschenmoser. He was appointed to an assistant lectureship at Cambridge in 1972. In 1977 he gained tenure and was appointed to a lectureship until he took the position of Director of the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis in 1994. He was promoted to a personal Readership in 1995 and to a personal Professorship in 1998. In September 2004 he moved to become Professor of Organic and Polymer Chemistry at Imperial College and in October 2004 was also appointed ARC Federation Fellow and inaugural VESKI Fellow at the Bio21 Institute at the University of Melbourne and at CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies.
rofessor Goverdhan Mehta is a leading researcher in the area of Chemical Sciences and presently CSIR Bhatnagar Previously, Professor Mehta has been the Director of the Indian Institute of Science (1998-2005) and the President (Vice Chancellor) of the University of Hyderabad (1994-1998), two of India's most prestigious academic institutions.
rofessor Bert Meijer is Distinguished University Professor in the Molecular Sciences and Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. After a PhD in 1982 from the University of Groningen (Organic Chemistry with Hans Wynberg) and a 10-year career in industry (Philips and DSM) he became Head of Molecular Science & Technology at Eindhoven University. His research is focused on supramolecular chemistry, functional organic materials, chemical biology and stereochemistry.
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department at the Max-Planck-Institut of Colloids and Interfaces in Golm/Potsdam since October 1993. His research interests include amphiphiles, monolayers, polyelectrolyte 
rofessor Giacinto Scoles was born in Italy and raised there through the second world war. A few years after the war he moved, with his family, to Spain, where he spent his adolescence. He returned to Italy and graduated at the University of Genoa in 1959 with a degree in Chemistry. His publication record started with “Vapour Pressure of Isotopic Liquids I” published 1959 in Il Nuovo Cimento. Starting his interdisciplinary research between chemistry and physics, in 1960 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Genoa where he carried out research in the field of physisorption. In 1961, he changed research area and joined Jan Beenakker’s group at the Kamerlingh-Onnes Laboratorium of Leiden University in The Netherlands. There he coauthored the first papers on what became soon known as the Senftleben-Beenakker Effect: The influence of an external magnetic or electric field on the transport properties of dilute polyatomic gases. In 1964, Professor Scoles returned to the University of Genoa as Assistant Professor of Physics. In Genoa he stayed until 1971 and in those years established a renowned molecular beams laboratory devoted to the investigation of intermolecular forces in gases. In 1971, Professor Scoles moved to the University of Waterloo, Canada as Professor of Chemistry and Physics. There, he helped to establish the Waterloo Centre for Molecular Beams and Laser Chemistry and he was the initial (Acting) Director of the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry, the first true inter-university graduate programme in Canada. Professor Scoles performed crossed beam differential scattering cross-section studies of atom-atom, atom-molecule and molecule-molecule interactions, using his bolometer detector and, with Terry Gough and the late Roger Miller, he introduced the technique of bolometer-detected optothermal spectroscopy of molecular beams. In the mid to late 1970s Professor Scoles spent part of his time 
rofessor Jim Wells received a B.A. degree in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD degree in biochemistry from Washington State University. His postdoctoral studies were done at Stanford University Medical School, Department of Biochemistry. Professor Wells was the founding member of the Protein Engineering Department at Genentech, Inc where he worked for 16 years. His research focused on designing new functional properties into enzymes and hormones and developing new technologies for engineering proteins.