Contributors to the Emerging Investigatorsissue 2016
Jose Aleman obtained his PhD under thesupervision of Professor Jose Luis GarcıaRuano in 2005. In 2003, he spent sixmonths in the laboratory of ProfessorAlbert Padwa at Emory University,Atlanta, USA. He subsequently carriedout postdoctoral research (2006–2008)at the Center for Catalysis in Aarhus(Denmark) with Professor Karl A. Jørgensen.He returned to Spain in 2009 and iscurrently a ‘Ramon y Cajal’ researcher atthe Universidad Autonoma de Madrid(Spain). His research interests includeasymmetric synthesis and catalysis. Morerecently, he received a Consolidator Grantawarded by the European Research Council(see www.uam.es/jose.aleman).
Ishan Barman received his under-graduate degree from Indian Instituteof Technology Kharagpur and completedhis PhD degree (2011) at MIT with Profes-sors Michael Feld and Robert Silbey, wherehe was a Lester Wolfe Graduate Fellow. Aftera brief postdoctoral stint, he joined theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering atJohns Hopkins University as an AssistantProfessor with a joint appointment in theDepartment of Oncology at Johns HopkinsSchool of Medicine. His principal researchinterests reside in harnessing the power ofvibrational spectroscopy and its plasmon-enhanced counterpart in elucidatingcomplex pathophysiological conditions,especially in the oncological space.
A. T. Biju was born and raised inCochin, Kerala, India. He received hisBSc and MSc from Mahatma GandhiUniversity, Kerala, India, and his PhDunder the guidance of Dr Vijay Nair atthe CSIR-NIIST, Trivandrum, India. Sub-sequently, he has been a post-doctoralfellow with Prof. Tien-Yau Luh at theNational Taiwan University, Taipei andan Alexander von Humboldt fellow withProf. Frank Glorius at the WestfalischeWilhelms-Universitat Munster, Germany.In June 2011, he began his independentresearch career at the CSIR-NationalChemical Laboratory, Pune, India. Hisresearch focuses on the development oftransition-metal-free carbon–carbon andcarbon–heteroatom bond-forming reactionsusing aryne chemistry and N-heterocycliccarbene (NHC) organocatalysis, and theirapplication in organic synthesis.
Eszter Borbas grew up in Hungary and(then still) North Yemen. After obtainingher Diploma at Eotvos Lorand University(Hungary) and her PhD at The Open Uni-versity (UK), she did post-doctoral work atNorth Carolina State (USA) and StockholmUniversities (Sweden). In 2010 she startedher independent career as a SwedishResearch Council assistant professor. Sheis currently an associate professor at UppsalaUniversity, where her group works onluminescent lanthanide complexes formultiplex imaging and synthetic heterocyclicchemistry to access functionalized hydro-porphyrins. In her free time she enjoysreading, running, climbing, and trekkingin places without cell phone coverage.
Matthew Brown is currently head of theliquid interfaces group in the Depart-ment of Materials at ETH Zurich. Hestudied undergraduate chemistry at theUniversity of Ottawa and received hisPhD from UC Irvine in 2008 under thesupervision of Prof. Hemminger. After anAlexander von Humboldt postdoctoralfellowship at the Fritz Haber Institutein the department of Prof. Freund hemoved to ETH first as a postdoctoral
fellow and in 2012 was promotedto group leader. His research group’sinterests focus on quantitative character-ization of the liquid–air and liquid–nano-particle interfaces for applications inenvironmental science and soft-matterphysics.
Romen Carrillo was born in paradisiacTenerife, where he received his PhD inchemistry (2007). Then he spent sometime in Professor Colin Nuckolls’ groupat Columbia University, New York (USA),right before he moved to the Universityof Edinburgh (UK) where he workedin Professor David Leigh’s group. In2010, he returned to Spain and joinedthe Instituto de Productos Naturales yAgrobiologıa (IPNA-CSIC). He is currentlyworking at Instituto Universitario de Bio-Organica (IUBO), where his research inter-ests are greener synthetic methodologies,supramolecular functional systems andnovel approaches to medicinal chemistry.
Changle Chen obtained his BS degree fromUniversity of Science and Technology of
China in 2005. After receiving his PhDfrom the University of Chicago workingwith Prof. Richard Jordan in 2010, hemoved to Northwestern University tostart postdoctoral studies with Prof.Tobin Marks. After some time at theCelanese Corporation, he started hisindependent career as a professor atUSTC in 2013. His current researchfocuses on the development of organo-metallic complexes and new strategiesfor olefin polymerization and copolymer-ization. His notable awards include theAlbert J. Cross Prize, the AmericanChemical Society DIC Young InvestigatorAward and the IUPAC Prizes – HonorableMention.
Serena Corr is a lecturer at the School ofChemistry at the University of Glasgow.She obtained her BA (2002) and PhD(2007) in Chemistry from Trinity CollegeDublin. In 2007, she began working as apostdoctoral researcher with ProfessorRam Seshadri at the University of California,Santa Barbara. After a lectureship atthe University of Kent, Serena joinedGlasgow as a lecturer in PhysicalChemistry in January 2013. Her researchfocuses on the design, synthesis andcharacterization of functional nano-materials in particular for applicationsin energy storage, with an emphasis onunderstanding their intimate structure–property interplay.
Deanna D’Alessandro received her PhDin Chemistry from James Cook Universityin 2006 under the supervision of ProfessorRichard Keene, and undertook a post-doctoral position with Professor Jeff Longat the University of California, Berkeleyfrom 2007–2009 as a Dow Chemical Com-pany Fellow of the American-AustralianAssociation and a Royal Commission forthe Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellow. In2011 she received an Australian ResearchCouncil QEII Fellowship which allowedher to start building her own researchgroup at the University of Sydney, focusingon the electronic and optical properties ofMOFs and their applications in energy-related fields. She was chosen as one ofthe winners of the ChemComm EmergingInvestigator Lectureship in 2015.
Aude Demessence is a CNRS researcher atthe Institute of Catalysis and Environment
in Lyon, France. She obtained her PhD in2006 from University of Strasbourg, underthe guidance of Dr P. Rabu. Then, she didher first postdoc at Berkeley University withProf. J. R. Long and the second one jointlyat Versailles and Paris Universities withDr C. Serre and Dr C. Sanchez. Her researchfocuses on hybrid materials, mainly assem-bly of nanoparticles, thanks to a youngresearcher grant (ANR JCJC), and coinagemetal thiolate compounds for catalysis andluminescence. Her passions for chemistryand traveling brought her, for few months,to Kyoto University in 2014 and IIT-Bombayin 2015.
Rob Elmes graduated from the Universityof Dublin, Trinity College in 2007 beforebeing awarded an IRCSET Embark Scholar-ship to undertake his PhD under the super-vision of Prof. Thorri Gunnlaugsson. After ashort postdoctoral tenure at the TrinityBiomedical Sciences Institute in Dublin,Rob moved to the University of Sydneyunder the guidance of Prof. Kate Jolliffewhere he was involved in the developmentof new platforms for the recognition,sensing and transport of biologically rele-vant anions. In late 2014, Rob returned toIreland taking up a position at MaynoothUniversity where he is currently a Lecturerin Organic Chemistry within the Depart-ment of Chemistry. Rob’s research interestslie in the fields of Supramolecular Chemistryand Chemical Biology and the group isdesigning responsive biomimetic materialsas drug delivery vehicles, diagnostic toolsand environmental sensors.
Dominic Hare completed his PhD inanalytical chemistry at the University ofTechnology Sydney in 2009, and now divideshis time between UTS and the FloreyInstitute of Neuroscience and MentalHealth, where he heads the AnalyticalNeurochemistry Development Group. Hewas an Australian Postdoctoral (Industry)Fellow, and is currently a Chancellor’sPostdoctoral Fellow and Senior Lecturerat UTS. His research passion is studyingthe role of metals in neurodegenerativediseases and wider biology. He is a Fellowof the RSC, and in his spare time runs alight-hearted website (ferrumblogger.com) that attempts to make metals inbiology more digestible to the everydayweb trawler.
Thomas Hermans is an assistant professorat the University of Strasbourg and groupleader of the Laboratory of NonequilibriumComplex Systems (Laboratoire des systemescomplexes hors equilibre, www.hermanslab.com) at the Institut de Science et
d’Ingenierie Supramoleculaires (France).He studied Chemical Engineering andChemistry at the Eindhoven University ofTechnology (The Netherlands, 2000–2006),followed by a PhD at the faculty of Bio-medical Engineering at the same universityunder the supervision of Prof. E. W. (Bert)Meijer (2006–2010). Next, Dr Hermansjoined the group of Prof. Bartosz Grzybowskiat Northwestern University (USA, 2010–2013)supported by a HFSP fellowship. At the endof 2015 he obtained his habilitation degreefrom the University of Strasbourg. Themain goal of the Hermans lab is obtainingadaptive, self-healing, self-replicating andultimately living systems (and materials)using molecular self-assembly under far-from-equilibrium conditions.
Todd W. Hudnall (b.1979), originally anarchitecture major, quickly changed hismajor to chemistry and earned his BS in2004 from Texas State University. Hispassion for main group chemistry beganwhen he joined the group of FrançoisGabbaı at Texas A&M where he earnedhis PhD in 2008. During his postdoctoralwork under the direction of ChristopherBielawski at the University of Texas, hehelped pioneer a new class of electron-poor carbene ligands. Todd has been anAssistant Professor of Chemistry at TexasState University since 2010, where hisresearch has married his love of carbeneand main group chemistry. He wasrecently recognized with awards fromthe NSF, the ACS PRF, and the ResearchCorporation for Science Advancement,and his boron tattoo was also featuredin C&E News. In his spare time, Toddenjoys being outdoors and spendingtime with his wife Hayley.
After studying chemical engineering atUniversity Politehnica of Bucharest between1995 and 2000, Vlad Iluc was employed fortwo years at Strem Chemicals in Newbury-port, MA. In 2002, he began his PhD careerat the University of Chicago, where heworked under the guidance of ProfessorGregory Hillhouse. His research focused onmetal–ligand multiple bonds in nickel com-plexes supported by chelating bisphosphineligands. During 2008–2011, Dr Iluc was apostdoctoral fellow at the California Instituteof Technology, where he worked withProfessor Robert Grubbs and focused onC–H activation reactions catalyzed by iri-dium complexes. Professor Iluc joined theChemistry and Biochemistry Departmentat University of Notre Dame in summer2011. His research interests are late tran-sition metal carbenoids, ligand designand small molecule activation.
Wei Jiang received his BSc degree in 2004from Xi’an Jiaotong University and hisMSc degree in 2007 from Nankai Universitywith Prof. Yu Liu. He was awarded the
Schering prize for his PhD work whichhe finished in 2010 at Freie UniversitatBerlin with Prof. Christoph A. Schalley.After postdoctoral research with Prof.Julius Rebek Jr at the Scripps ResearchInstitute in 2011 and 2012, he started hisindependent research career at the Depart-ment of Chemistry, South University ofScience and Technology of China (SUSTC).His research is focused on the design andsynthesis of novel macrocyclic hosts andtheir applications in catalysis, sensing, andsmart materials.
Euan Kay received his MChem from theUniversity of Edinburgh in 2002 andcompleted his PhD there in 2006 underthe supervision of Professor David A.Leigh FRS. He was the recipient of a2007 IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists.Following postdoctoral work in Edinburgh,he joined Professor Moungi Bawendi atMIT (2008–2010). He then moved to theUniversity of St Andrews as a Royal Societyof Edinburgh/Scottish Government PersonalResearch Fellow (2011–2015) and is now aLecturer in Chemistry there. Research in theKay group focuses on translating dynamicand stimuli-responsive (supra)molecularsystems into the nanoworld.
Kevin Kittilstved started his current positionas an Assistant Professor in the Depart-ment of Chemistry at the University ofMassachusetts Amherst in 2011. Kevin isa graduate of Gonzaga University (BS 2001)and the University of Washington (PhD2006), and continued his training as apost-doc at the Universite de Geneve withAndreas Hauser and the University ofWashington with Daniel Gamelin. In 2015he received a National Science FoundationCAREER Award. His current research pro-gram is focused on controlling impuritiesand defects in multifunctional inorganicmaterials and molecular clusters forsolar energy and spin-based electronicsapplications.
Pengfei Li is now a professor at FrontierInstitute of Science and Technology atXi’an Jiaotong University. He earned hisBS and MS degrees in chemistry fromShanxi Normal University (2001) andNankai University (2004), respectively.After two years of experience in the drug
industry, he continued his academicresearch at the Helmholtz Center for Infec-tion Research (HZI) and later at Universityof Heidelberg, where he finished his PhDthesis under the supervision of Prof. DirkMenche. In early 2010, he joined Prof. SteveBuchwald’s group at MIT as a postdoctoralassociate. In November 2011 he startedhis independent research at Xi’an, thehistorical city in the middle of China.His current research includes syntheticorganoboron chemistry, natural productsynthesis and continuous-flow chemistry.
Xin-Yuan Liu received his PhD degree fromthe University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2010and became a post-doctoral Fellow in HKUand then the Scripps Research Institutefrom 2010 to 2012. Dr Liu joined the SouthUniversity of Science and Technology ofChina as an Associate Professor in 2012.His research interests are focused on thedesign of homogeneous and heterogeneouscatalysts, their applications in the asym-metric functionalization of unactivatedalkenes and alkynes, and the applicationof chemistry in medicinal chemistry. Hehas published more than forty researchpapers in international journals, includingNat. Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew.Chem., Chem. Commun. and so on. Hisresearch papers have been cited up to1300 times.
Carlos Martı-Gastaldo (Universidad deValencia; UV) studied at the UV, wherehe worked with Eugenio Coronado andJose Ramon Galan-Mascaros for his PhD(2009). After post-doctoral research withMatthew J. Rosseinsky at the University ofLiverpool (2010–2013), and a URF from theRoyal Society at Liverpool (2013–2014),he was made a Ramon y Cajal Fellow atthe UV in 2014. Martı-Gastaldo’s researchis currently focused on metal–organicframeworks for energy transport, conver-sion and storage.
Ruaraidh McIntosh completed his PhD atHeriot-Watt University under the super-vision of Prof. Alan Welch. He receivedthe University Thesis Prize and the RSCLaurie Vergnano Award for this workbefore undertaking postdoctoral studies atthe Ohio State University with Prof. MalcolmChisholm, University of Manchester withProf. Richard Winpenny and Prof. EricMcInnes, and in Edinburgh with Dr ScottDalgarno and Prof. Euan Brechin. Heremains at Heriot-Watt University as aResearch Fellow where his research inter-ests include supramolecular chemistryand catalysis. Away from work Ruaraidhcan usually be found in the kitchenwhere he has found a secondary applica-tion for his redoubtable skills in burningand profanity.
Alexander Miller is an Assistant Professorof Chemistry at the University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill. After a formativeresearch experience with Prof. GregoryHillhouse at the University of Chicagoculminated in a BS in 2005, he obtainedhis PhD in 2011 at Caltech under the gui-dance of Prof. John Bercaw. Alex continuedhis training with Prof. Karen Goldberg andProf. Jim Mayer as a Dreyfus EnvironmentalPostdoctoral Fellow at the University ofWashington, Seattle, before joining theCarolina faculty in 2012. The MillerGroup is developing strategies in mole-cular catalysis to facilitate the efficientsynthesis of fuels and chemicals fromrenewable resources.
Jill E. Millstone grew up in Jacksonville,Florida, and attended Carnegie MellonUniversity where she received a BS inChemistry and English. She completedher PhD in materials chemistry at North-western University under the direction ofChad Mirkin, and post-doctoral researchat the University of California, Berkeleyin the laboratories of Jean Frechet and PaulAlivisatos. Since joining the University of
Pittsburgh, she has received awardsincluding the National Science Founda-tion CAREER Award, the ACS UnileverAward and the Cottrell Research ScholarAward. Her group studies the chemicalmechanisms underpinning metal nano-particle synthesis, surface chemistry, andoptoelectronic performance.
Haralampos N. Miras obtained his PhDin 2005 under the supervision of Prof.T. A. Kabanos (Ioannina, Greece). Subse-quently, he joined the group of Prof.R. G. Raptis (Puerto Rico, USA), beforemoving to Glasgow with Prof. L. Cronin.In 2010 he was awarded a 5-year RoyalSociety of Edinburgh/Marie Curie fellow-ship. In 2013, he began his current positionas lecturer at the University of Glasgow.Harry’s research focuses on the under-standing of fundamental processes in theself-assembly of supramolecular chemicalsystems, the elucidation of mechanismsas well as on the investigation of thestructure–function correlation and surfaceorganization.
Markus Mullner studied polymer andcolloid chemistry at the University ofBayreuth, Germany where he also receivedhis PhD under the supervision of Prof. AxelH. E. Muller in 2012. He went on to joinProf. Frank Caruso’s group at the Universityof Melbourne, Australia as a postdoctoralfellow. In 2015, Markus became a lecturerwith the School of Chemistry at the Uni-versity of Sydney, Australia and joinedthe Key Centre for Polymers and Colloids.His research focuses on the synthesis ofelaborate polymeric architectures, such ascylindrical polymer brushes, and theirapplications in template chemistry andnanomedicine.
After undergraduate and Masters studiesat the University of Sydney, ElizabethNew completed her PhD at Durham
University in 2009. Following a period atthe University of California (Berkeley) asa Royal Commission for the Exhibition of1851 Postdoctoral Fellow, Liz returned tothe University of Sydney in 2012, whereshe is now a Senior Lecturer. Her researchis focused on the development of smallmolecule fluorescent and magnetic reso-nance probes for the study of biologicalsystems. She is passionate about supportingother early career researchers, and serveson the executive of the Australian Academyof Science’s Early- and Mid-CareerResearcher Forum.
Alison Parkin originally hails from EastYorkshire and attended South HunsleySchool. She spent 12 fantastic years atthe University of Oxford (2000–2012),studying as a MChem and DPhil (PhD)student at Jesus College, before workingas a Merton College Junior ResearchFellow. For her DPhil and Fellowship sheworked in Professor Fraser Armstrong’sresearch group where the interest inelectrochemistry and hydrogenase bio-chemistry which inspired the paper inthis collection was nurtured. In 2012Alison returned to ‘God’s own county’ asan Anniversary Research Lecturer in theDepartment of Chemistry at the Universityof York where her group focuses on under-standing biological redox-chemistry.
Katherine Plass (shown in the center ofthe photo) leads a team of undergraduatestudent scientists in the Chemistry Depart-ment at Franklin & Marshall College (shownabove left to right: Marshall Tomat, DavidMix, Nathaniel Freymeyer, Christian Kim,Alex Kim, and Zheni Georgieva). Togetherwe explore the surface and solid-statebehavior of nanoparticles of interest foroptoelectronic applications. Prof. Plassjoined Franklin & Marshall College in2008 after a post-doctoral experience atthe California Institute of Technologywith Nathan S. Lewis and a doctoralexperience at the University of Michiganwith Adam J. Matzger.
Alexander Pothig graduated in chemistryat TU Dresden in 2007. After a researchstay at UC Berkeley with Prof. Dirk Traunerhe moved back to Germany and receivedhis PhD in 2012 at the TU Dresden with athesis on transition metal complexes asemitters for optical devices. In 2011 hebecame a researcher at the TU Munchenand subsequently a subgroup leader at theChair of Inorganic Chemistry of Prof. W. A.Herrmann. Since 2013 he has been thehead of the single-crystal XRD departmentof the newly founded Catalysis ResearchCenter of the TU Munchen and since2014 he has been pursuing projects as anindependent researcher. He is interested inthe design of N-heterocyclic and carbocyclic
carbene ligands for multi-centred com-plexes, the electronic characterization oftransition metal complexes for catalyticapplications and the structural determi-nation of small molecules using single-crystal XRD.
Kamalesh Prasad obtained his MSc in 1999and PhD (CSIR-Central Salt & MarineChemicals Research Institute) in 2005. Hejoined CSIR-CSMCRI in 2000 as a JuniorScientist and is presently working as aPrincipal Scientist and as an Associate pro-fessor in AcSIR. He is a recipient of theCSIR-Young Scientist Award 2010 for hisresearch in the area of seaweed polysac-charides. He has visited Kagoshima Univer-sity, University of Leicester and INSA-LyonFrance as a visiting scientist. He is amember of the Royal Society of Chemistryand received a CSIR-Raman-ResearchFellowship. The research interests of hisgroup include dissolution and function-alization of natural polymers using newsolvent systems, extraction of polysac-charides and bioactive molecules, rheologyof gels and graphene.
Martin Prechtl, named Humboldtian/AvH and Heisenbergian/DFG, receivedthe NRW Returnee Award 2009 (1.25Mh)and works at the University of Cologne asPrivatdozent. He acts as an editor forWiley, RSC and DeGruyter. Besides other
awards, he holds the Ernst-Haage-Prize2014 (MPI-CEC) for his contribution tohydrogen storage (Nat. Commun., 2014,PCT-patent). His group develops molecularand nanoscale (de)hydrogenation catalystsand is known for H2-generation frommethanol/formaldehyde at room tempera-ture. Before Cologne he performed researchin Wuppertal, Bridgetown, Sao Paulo,Aachen, Mulheim/Ruhr, Porto Alegre andBerlin. He enjoys outdoor activities, sports,cooking, languages and their derivatives likeMirandese, Papiamento, Talian or Bajan.
Christoph Rademacher is currently agroup leader at the Max Planck Instituteof Colloids and Interfaces (MPI-CI) in theDepartment of Biomolecular Systemsin Potsdam, Germany. He received hisdoctorate degree in NMR spectroscopyunder the supervision of Prof. ThomasPeters at the University of Lubeck. Afterpostdoctoral research in the field ofGlycoimmunology with Prof. James C.Paulson at the Scripps Research Institute,La Jolla (USA), he started his independentcareer at the MPI-CI heading the ‘‘StructuralGlycobiology’’ group. His research focuseson the development and application ofnovel molecular probes to understand therole of carbohydrates in immune cellregulation.
Gopalan Rajaraman (born in Thanjavur,India) received his PhD at the University ofManchester, UK under the supervision ofProf. R. E. P. Winpenny and Dr E. J. L.McInnes in 2004. Afterwards, he undertookpostdoctoral stays at the University ofHeidelberg, Germany (2005–2007) in thegroup of Prof. P. Comba and Universityof Florence, Italy in the group of Prof.D. Gatteschi (2007–2009). In December, 2009he joined IIT Bombay, India as an assistantprofessor and became an associate professorin 2014. His research focuses on employingelectronic structure methods to understandstructure, properties and reactivity of mole-cules possessing unpaired electrons (open-shell systems). In addition to modellingmolecular magnets, his group also activelypursues research in the area of modellingbio-mimic reactions catalysed by high-valentmetal–oxo/imido complexes.
Michael J. Rose is an Assistant Professorin the Chemistry Department at the Univer-sity of Texas at Austin. His research group isespecially interested in the development ofsolar fuel conversion devices based on
integrating light absorbers (such as siliconand gallium phosphide) with catalysts forhydrogen generation and carbon dioxidereduction (both molecular and nanoparticlecatalysts). The Rose research group isalso interested in bio-inspired chemistry,especially in the area of hydrogen (H2)and nitrogen (N2) utilization by iron-basedcatalysts. Such work explores novel, bio-mimetic iron–carbon bonding motifs tostabilize highly reactive intermediates forH2 and N2 activation.
Maarten Smulders obtained his PhD degreein 2009 from the Eindhoven University ofTechnology (NL) for research undertaken inthe group of Professor Bert Meijer. Afterpostdoctoral positions at the University ofCambridge (UK) and the University ofTwente (NL), in 2013 he took up a positionas assistant professor in the Laboratoryof Organic Chemistry at the WageningenUniversity (NL). His current researchinterests lie in the area of supramolecularchemistry, dynamic-covalent chemistryand polymer chemistry.
Marc Vendrell graduated in Chemistryat the University of Barcelona in 2007.
He then joined the Singapore BioimagingConsortium to work with Young-Tae Changin synthetic fluorophores for opticalimaging. In 2012 he started his indepen-dent career as an MRC Academic Fellowat the University of Edinburgh. He is aLecturer in Biomedical Imaging and hismain research interest is the developmentof activatable fluorophores for imagingcancer and inflammation. He has over50 publications in chemical biology andimaging, including 8 international patents.His research has been recognised withseveral awards: SEQT Young InvestigatorAward (2007), SBIC Chairman’s Prize(2010) and the Marie Curie CIG (2013).
Tuo Wang has been an associate professorin chemical engineering in Tianjin Univer-sity since August 2012. He received his BS(2006) from Tianjin University and PhD(2010) from the University of Texas atAustin, both in chemical engineering.After gaining another year of researchexperience as a postdoctoral associate, hejoined Novellus Systems Inc. (currentlyLam Research Corp.) as a PECVD processdevelopment engineer in Tualatin, Oregon.His research included ALD of high-kdielectrics and perovskite thin films, aswell as PECVD of carbon-based etchinghardmasks. His current research focuseson thin film deposition for energy conver-sion and storage systems.
Yan Xia received his BS from PekingUniversity and MSc from McMaster Uni-versity, both in chemistry. He obtainedhis PhD with Prof. Bob Grubbs and Prof.Julie Kornfield at Caltech in 2010, synthe-sizing and studying cyclic and brush poly-mers. He was then a senior chemist at theDow Chemical company for one and ahalf years to tackle industrial challengesbefore becoming a postdoc with Prof.Brad Olsen at MIT. In the summer of2013, he joined the faculty of Chemistryat Stanford University as an assistant pro-fessor. His group is interested in develop-ing efficient reactions and designing newmolecular motifs and polymers to createnovel soft materials.
Liyun Zhang studied chemistry at Uni-versity of Science and Technology of
China and received her PhD degree in2009. After two years of postdoctoralresearch, she was appointed assistantprofessor at Hefei Institutes of PhysicalScience, Chinese Academy of Sciencesand promoted to associate professor in2012. After one year of visiting researchat the National University of Singapore,she started an independent group in2014. Her research interests include(i) metalloenzymes and their applicationin renewable energy generation; and(ii) development of fluorescent probesto detect fundamental DNA and proteins.
Yong Sheng Zhao received his PhD degreein 2006 at Institute of Chemistry, ChineseAcademy of Sciences (ICCAS). After that,he joined the University of California atLos Angeles (UCLA) and NorthwesternUniversity as a postdoctoral fellow. In2009, he returned to ICCAS as a Professorof Chemistry. His research interestsare focused on organic nanophotonicmaterials and devices, including the con-trollable synthesis of low dimensionalorganic materials, comprehensive investi-gation of the photophysical and photo-chemical processes involved in thematerials, and the design, fabricationand performance optimization of photonic/optoelectronic nanodevices. He was chosenas one of the winners of the ChemCommEmerging Investigator Lectureship in 2015.
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