PLENARY SPEAKERS

Svetlana Mintova, Director of Research 1st Class at CNRS, LCS-ENSICAEN-Normandy University and the Head of the Centre for Zeolites and Nanoporous Materials. Her research focuses on porous materials with expertise in synthesis of zeolites, advanced characterizations, and their applications in catalysis, separation, chemical sensors, membranes, and biomedicine. She has been recognized for the novelty and originality of her multidisciplinary research in nanosized zeolites, receiving awards such as the Baron Axel Cronstedt Award from the European Zeolite Associations Federation (FEZA), the Donald Breck Award from the International Zeolite Association (IZA), the “Le Prix La Recherche Chimie” in France, and the Shandong International Science and Technology Cooperation Award in China. She serves as a Visiting Professor at China University of Petroleum (UPC), President of the International Zeolite Association (IZA), and Chair of the Synthesis Commission of the IZA.
She is an Associate Editor of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers (RSC) and Editor of Microporous Mesoporous Materials (Elsevier), and she has received the ERC Advanced Grant for 2022.
https://clear.cnrs.fr/mintova/

Harry L. Anderson completed his PhD on ‘Model Enzymes Based on Porphyrins’ with Jeremy Sanders at the University of Cambridge UK in 1990. He carried out postdoctoral work with François Diederich at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, on the synthesis of new carbon allotropes. He has led an independent research group at the University of Oxford since 1995. His work includes the investigation of porphyrin-based molecular wires, cyclodextrin polyrotaxanes, insulated molecular wires, encapsulated π-systems, template-directed synthesis, multivalent cooperativity, porphyrin nanorings, polyynes, cyclocarbons, nonlinear optical chromophores and functional dyes. Recent highlights include the AFM imaging of C13, C16 and C18 (in collaboration with IBM Zurich), and the demonstration that large porphyr in nanorings exhibit global aromatic ring currents. Website: http://hla.chem.ox.ac.uk/

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James R. Ketudat Cairns was born in Oregon, USA and obtained his BSc at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, USA before studying for a PhD in the Division of Biology at the University of California, San Diego, working on modification of the human bone protein osteocalcin. After a brief postdoctoral fellowship on peptide synthesis and fibrinogen structure with Prof. Russel F. Doolittle in Chemistry at UCSD, he moved to Thailand to take up a lecturer position at Suranaree University of Technology in 1995. He helped build the Biochemistry graduate program at SUT and worked his way up to full Professor in 2011. His research focuses on the structure and function of proteins, particularly carbohydrate active enzymes. This led him to be one of the pioneers in structural biology in Thailand using X-ray crystallography and other methods. He has been awarded the Prof. Jisnuson Svasti Outstanding Protein Scientist of Thailand Award (2017) and SUT Outstanding Research Faculty Award (2007). He served as the president of the Asia Pacific Protein Association 2019-2022, and Head of the School of Chemistry at SUT 2017-2022. He also holds an appointment as a researcher in the Chulabhorn Research Institute Laboratory of Biochemistry and has served as a visiting Professor at the University of Brawijaya, Indonesia and Universiti Putra Malaysia. He enjoys teasing the secrets out of enzymes and finding ways to engineer them and use them in chemical synthesis and other applications.