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/

A. Stephen K. Hashmi studied chemistry at LMU Munich, there he obtained his diploma and Ph.D. with Prof. G. Szeimies in the field of nickel- and iron-catalyzed cross-coupling of strained organic compounds.
His postdoctoral research with Prof. B. M. Trost at Stanford University covered transition metal-catalyzed enyme metathesis. After his habilitation on enantiomerically pure organopalladium compounds and palladium-catalyzed conversions of allenes with Prof. J. Mulzer at the FU Berlin, the JWG-University Frankfurt, and the University of Vienna, in 1998, he was awarded a Heisenberg fellowship of the DFG for a proposal on gold-catalyzed reactions for organic synthesis. This topic is still a major focus of his research group. His next stations were at the University of Tasmania in 1999 and Marburg University during 1999−2000; in 2001, he was appointed Professor for Organic Chemistry at Stuttgart University, and since 2007, he has occupied a chair for Organic Chemistry at Heidelberg University. 2013-2016 was Vice
President for Research and Structure , 2016-2019 Vice President for Research and Transfer at Heidelberg University.
He is founding member of the Hector Fellow Academy, 2021 he was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea, a leading European Academy.
Since 2020 Scientific Director of the International Scientific Forum Heidelberg (IWH). He also is member of the International Advisory Board of ChemCatChem and of Adv. Synth. Catal.

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.

Mas Subramanian is currently a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Milton Harris Chair Professor of Materials Science at Oregon State University. In 1982 he received his PhD in Solid State Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and was a post-doctoral fellow in the department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University working on ionic conductors for solid-state batteries. From 1984 to 2006 he was a research scientist at DuPont Company (USA). Subramanian’s research focuses on designing new inorganic solid state functional materials for emerging applications in electronics, energy conversion and environment. Subramanian is internationally recognized for several scientific breakthrough discoveries in the field of superconductors, dielectrics, magnetism, catalysis, thermoelectrics and inorganic pigments. Professor Subramanian has authored 400+ publications (h-index: 80) and listed as inventor in 84 US and international patents. Professor Subramanian has received several awards and honors for his outstanding contributions to materials chemistry including Charles Pedersen Medal awarded by DuPont Company for Excellence in Scientific and Technical Achievement (2004), F.A. Gilfillan Memorial Award from Oregon State University for Distinguished Scholarship in Science (2014), Chemical Research Society of India International Medal (2018) and prestigious ‘Perkin Medal’ from Society of Dyers and Colorists (SDC), UK (2019). He is an Elected Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (2019) and Neutron Scattering Society of America (2024). He was invited to deliver two TED talks on his scientific discoveries.

Prof. Dr. Orawon Chailapakul is a distinguished chemist renowned for her pioneering contributions to the field of electrochemical and optical sensors. Currently a professor at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, she earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry from The University of New Mexico, U.S.A. Her research is at the forefront of developing innovative sensor technologies to address critical challenges in healthcare and environmental monitoring. Her expertise in designing and fabricating advanced sensor platforms has led to the creation of portable, user-friendly devices with significant potential for point-of-care diagnostics and environmental assessment. Globally recognized for her exceptional research, she has been honored with prestigious awards, including the Outstanding Scientist Award from Thailand's Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Technology and the Science and Technology Award for the Electrochemistry and Optical Spectroscopy Center of Excellence (EOSCE) under her leadership from the Toray Science Foundation (Thailand). Her significant contributions to the field were further evidenced by her ranking among the top 2% of scientists worldwide by Stanford University in 2022. https://web.chemcu.org/orawon-chailapakul/