IC23 Speakers
IC23 Confirmed Plenary Speakers
Professor Polly Arnold
University of California Berkeley, USA
Professor Omar K. Farha
Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, USA
Professor Mitsuhiko Shionoya
The University of Tokyo, Japan
IC23 Keynotes
Professor Louise Berben
UC Davis, USA
Professor Colette Boskovic
University of Melbourne, Australia (RACI Margaret Shiel Awardee).
Professor Guido Clever
Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
Dr Rosalie Hocking
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Dr Sinead Keaveney
University of Wollongong, Australia
Professor Niveen M. Khasheb
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
Professor Paul Kruger
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Associate Professor Stephen Moggach
University of Western Australia, Australia
Professor Partha Sarathi Mukherjee
Indian Institute of Science, India
IC23 Invited Speakers
Dr Mat Anker, Victoria University Wellington
Dr Annie Colebatch, Australian National University
Dr Timothy Connell, Deakin University
Dr Jamie Hicks, Australian National University
Dr Carol Hua, University of Melbourne/Deakin University
Dr Christopher Larsen, University of Auckland
Dr Martina Lessio, University of New South Wales
Dr Lauren Macreadie, University of New South Wales
Dr Kathleen Mullen, Queensland University of Technology
Dr Daniel Preston, Australian National University
Dr Chris Ritchie, Monash University
Dr Nicole Rijs, University of New South Wales
Dr Martin Peeks, University of New South Wales
A/Professor Omar K. Farha
Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, USA
Omar K. Farha is an associate professor of chemistry at Northwestern University, Co-founder and President of NuMat Technologies, and Associate Editor for ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. His current research spans diverse areas of chemistry and materials science, focusing particularly on the rational design of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) for applications of sensing, catalysis, storage, separations and water purification.
His research accomplishments have been recognized by several awards and honors including Kuwait Prize, the Japanese Society of Coordination Chemistry’s “International award for creative work”; the Royal Society of Chemistry’s “Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division Early Career” Award; the American Chemical Society’s “Satinder Ahuja Award for Young Investigators in Separation Science”; and an award established by the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University in his honor: the Omar Farha Award for Research Leadership “awarded for stewardship, cooperation and leadership in the finest pursuit of research in chemistry” to an outstanding research scientist in the department.
Professor Polly Arnold
University of California Berkeley, USA
Polly Arnold is a professor of chemistry at the University of California Berkeley and the Chemical Sciences Division Director at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. She received her PhD in 1997 from Sussex University, after which she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to MIT. In 2009 she became the Chair of Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh and in 2019 she joined the University of California as Professor. Her research is focused on making new and reactive molecules that are changing the way the world thinks about the f-block metals, an important but poorly understood area of the periodic table. Her group’s fundamental studies have demonstrated unprecedented bond forming reactions with actinide ions of relevance to nuclear waste stewardship, and has developed the first catalyst from anywhere across the periodic table that, under ambient conditions, catalytically converts atmospheric dinitrogen into a secondary amine – a more versatile precursor to amino acids than ammonia, which is still made via the energy-intensive Haber-Bosch process.
Professor Mitsuhiko Shionoya
The University of Tokyo
Mitsuhiko Shionoya is a Professor of Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo (1999 to the present day), Editor-in-Chief of Chemistry Letters from 2013, and head investigator for scientific research on innovative areas on “Coordination Asymmetry” from 2016.
His research interests involve bio-inspired supramolecular array, space, and motion (e.g. metallo-DNA, molecular machines, supramolecular capsules and cages, porous crystals and functional aggregates, chital-at-metal chemistry).
His recent awards include the CSJ Award for Creation Work (2007), Inoue Prize for Science (2007), University of Louis Pasteur Medal (2008), Prizes for Science and Technology/Research category (2016), Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry Award (2018), The Chemical Society of Japan Award (2020), and International Izatt-Christensen Award (2020).
| Key Dates | |
|---|---|
| Call for Abstracts closes | 3 April 2023 |
| Notifications to authors | 18 April 2023 |
| Presenter registration deadline | 21 April 2023 |
| Standard registration rate | 22 April 2023 |
| ICBIC20 | 16 – 21 July 2023 |
| Opening Ceremony | 3pm, 16 July 2023 |
| Closing Ceremony | Before lunch, 21 July 2023 |
