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First Round of Abstract Submission Ends: Oct 10, 2025
Extended Early Bird Ends: Feb 28, 2025

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Rachel Mamlok-Naaman
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Title: Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences
Dr. Rachel Mamlok-Naamanwasthe head of the National Center of Chemistry Teachers at the Weizmann Institute of Science(until June 2020), and a previous coordinator of the chemistry group at the Department of Science Teaching (until June 2016). In addition, she serves as: The chair of DivCED EuChemS, IUPAC Titular member of the committee on chemical education, and executive member of the IUPAC committtees on: standards in chemistry education, gender gap in chemistry education, Systems Thinking in Chemistry for Sustainability, and Multi-language Dictionary of Terms in Chemistry Education.Herpublications focus on the topics which are related to students' learning (cognitive and affective aspects of learning), and on teachers' professional development. She got several awards: Two from the Weizmann Institute 1990-Bar-Ner (for teaching, and 2006-Maxine Singerfor professional development of science teachers), and: (1)2018 ACS awardforincorporation of sustainability into the chemistry curriculum, (2) 2020 IUPACaward for distinguished women in chemistry and chemistry engineering, and (3) 2025 ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences.
Prof. Andrzej Lewenstam
AGH Univ. of Science and Technology, Poland
Title:

ION SENSORS – STATE-OF-THE-ART, NEW RESEARCH TRENDS AND APPLICATION PROSPECTS

Andrzej Lewenstam, full Professor of Chemistry in Finland (1990) and Poland (1996). f. Director of the ProSens Center for Sensor Technology and Process Analytical Chemistry (Finland), R&D manager (KONE, Finland), principal R&D advisor at Thermo Fisher Scientific (USA), expert of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry (IFCC), and chairman of the Selective Electrodes and Biosensors of Scientific Division, Working Group on Selective Electrodes and Point-of-Care Testing Main interests: Electrochemistry. Sensor technology. Analytical chemistry & electroanalysis; Clinical chemistry & biomedical analysis. Physicochemical modeling. Philosophy of Science. Total number: ca 300 research papers, book chapters 40, patents: 25, books: 6. Citation Index (Scholar): 14 200 (total), H index = 58.
Prof. Hajime Hirao
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
Title: Computational Exploration of Reactivity and Bonding in Cytochrome P450 Enzymes
Dr. Hajime Hirao earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from Kyoto University and his PhD from the University of Tokyo. He conducted postdoctoral research under Prof. Sason Shaik at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Prof. Keiji Morokuma at Emory University and Kyoto University. Currently a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Dr. Hirao previously held positions at Novartis, Nanyang Technological University, and City University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on the computational exploration of reaction mechanisms in both biological and non-biological molecular systems, with a particular emphasis on drug-metabolizing cytochrome P450 enzymes.
Prof. Renata Bilewicz
University of Warsaw, Poland
Title: Lipid liquid crystalline films designed for biosensing.
Renata Bilewicz completed her PhD in Chemistry at the University of Warsaw in 1984, specializing in electroanalytical chemistry. Following her doctoral studies, she pursued post-doctoral positions at Janet and Robert Osteryoung's laboratory in NYU, Buffalo (focusing on pulse voltammetry methods), and with Marcin Majda at UC Berkeley (exploring self-assembly and Langmuir-Blodgett films). In 2000, she attained the position of professor at the University of Warsaw, where she currently serves as the Head of the Laboratory of Theory and Applications of Electrodes within the Faculty of Chemistry, as well as the Laboratory of Bionanostructures at the Biological and Chemical Research Centre (CNBCh UW). In 2019 she was selected as member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Her recent research interests span various domains:
1. Investigating electron transfer processes in supramolecular and biomolecular systems.
2. Exploring molecular self-assembly, Langmuir-Blodgett films, and metal nanoparticles for applications in bioelectrocatalysis and molecular recognition processes at interfaces.
3. Examining lipid liquid crystalline phases as biocompatible molecular matrices for containing drugs, soluble proteins, and integral membrane proteins.
Prof. Bilewicz pioneered the application of electroanalytical methods in studying lipid liquid-crystalline mesophases as biomimetics of biological membranes, providing an environment suitable for hosting soluble enzymes and membrane proteins. Her research group investigates lipidic mesophases and nanoparticles as potential drug carriers, analyzing their sustainability and controlled release.

She has played a significant role in the organization and leadership of numerous international scientific meetings, having served as the chair of the Bioelectrochemistry Division of the International Society of Electrochemistry and as an active board member of the Bioelectrochemical Society and Polish Chemical Society. Her scientific achievements have been recognized through awards from Poland and the Czech Republic, as well as the prestigious Bioelectrochemistry Prize from the International Society of Electrochemistry.
Prof. Thomas Bligaard
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Title: Catalysis under uncertainty: Integrating quantitative uncertainty etimates with simulations of heterogeneous catalysts.
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Prof. Annie K. Powell
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Title: The interplay of magnetism and chiralty in molecule based magnetic materials
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Prof. Ling Peng
CINaM-CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, France
Title: Modular and adaptive self-assembling dendrimers for biomedical applications
Dr. Ling Peng is a research director in the Interdisciplinary Center on Nanoscience in Marseille (CINaM) at the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS) in France.

She carried her undergraduate study at Nanjing University in China, her PhD in organic synthesis with Prof. Albert Eschenmoser at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, and her postdoctoral research in Pharmacy with Prof. Maurice Goeldner at Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, France. She was recruited as a research scientist in CNRS in 1997, promoted as a Research Director in 2008, then 1st class Research Director in 2015, and exceptional class Research Director in 2023.

Dr.Ling PENG has been working actively at the interface of chemistry and biology, and in particular, developing functional dendrimers for biomedical applications, molecular probes for exploring biological events and nucleoside analogues for drug discovery. She has established bio-inspired structurally flexible dendrimers for nucleic acid delivery. Recently, she has inaugurated the concept of self-assembling supramolecular dendrimers, and applied this concept to deliver various pharmaceutical agents including drugs, nucleic acid therapeutics and imaging agentsfor personalized precision medicine.

Dr.Ling PENG has co-authored 7 international patents and published more than 160 papers in highly impactful scientific journals such as PNAS, Adv Mater, Sci Adv, JACS, Angew Chem, Nature Protocols, Chem Soc Rev and Chem Rev. Since 2016, her research team has been awarded and funded by “La Ligue contre Le Cancer”, the largest private foundation in France.

Dr. Ling PENG is the Distinguished Member of French Chemical Society, and has been awarded with the Prize of Dr &Mme Henri Labbé of the French Academy of Sciences, the André Collet Prize of the French Chemical Society and the Grand Prize of the French Chemical Society SUD PACA.
Prof. Dejian Zhou
University of Leeds, UK
Title: To be confirmed.
Dejian Zhou is Professor in Nanochemistry, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and PI member of the School of Chemistry, Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology and Bragg Centre for Materials Research, University of Leeds. He obtained his BSc and PhD degrees in Chemistry both from Peking University(China). He pursued postdoctoral research at CranfieldUniversity and University of Cambridge before being appointed to Senior Lecturer(2007) and then Professor of Nanochemistry (2018) at the University of Leeds. He pursues a polyvalent multifunctional nanoparticle (PMN) strategy to address some important unmet biomedical challenges, e.g.novel glycan-PMNs for probing biophysical and cellular mechanisms of multivalent protein-sugar interactionsand potential therapeutic interventions, and new multifunctional PMNs as cancer and bacterial theranostic agents. He received the Young Chemist Award from Chinese Chemical Society (1996) and serves asan associate editor or editorial board member for several Elsevier and Wiley journals. He has published>150 peer-reviewed journal papers and 4 invited book chapters, including >30 in some leading,high impact journals (IF >10, e.g.Nature Nanotech, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater. etc) and 2 research highlights on the BBC.
Prof. Luisa De Cola
University of Milan, Italy
Title: Hybrid nanomaterials for biomedical applications.
Luisa De Cola is since November 2020 Professor at the University of Milan and head of the unit Materials for Health at the Istituto di RicercheFarmacologiche Mario Negri, IRCCS, Italy. She is also part time scientist at the INT-KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany.

She was born in Messina, Italy, where she studied chemistry. After a post-doc in USA she was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna (1990). In 1998 she was appointed Full Professor at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

In 2004 she moved to the University of Muenster, Germany. In 2012 she has been appointed Axa Chair of Supramolecular and Bio-Material Chemistry, at the University of Strasbourg.She is recipients of several awards and recognitions, the most recent being the Izatt–Christensen Award in Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (2019), the gold Medal Natta (2020) and the Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (2024).

She has been nominated “Chevalier de la Légion d' Honneur” by the President of the French Republic, François Hollande; elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, of the Accademia deiLinceiand fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). She is the editor in chief of Chemistry Europe.

Her main interests are labels for diagnostics, and nano- and porous structures for biomedical applications. She has published 400 papers, filed 40 patents and has a Hindex of 85.
Prof. Hiroyuki Asanuma
Nagoya University, Japan
Title: Reversible photo-switching of biofunctions by azobenzene-tethered DNA
Prof. Hiroyuki Asanuma was born in 1962. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo in 1989 under the supervision of Prof. Naoki Toshima. He joined Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd. and then moved to The University of Tokyo in 1995 as an Assistant Professor of Prof. Komiyama’s group. In 2005, he moved to the Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University as a full professor. He received The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work for 2017 and The Award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (2015). Currently his research interests are focused on the development of functional artificial oligonucleotides with acyclic scaffolds, design of nucleic acid medicine, and origin of life (Pre-RNA world hypothesis).
Dr. Siow Woon Ng
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Title: Atomic layer deposition coatings on 1D and 3D structures for sensing and catalytic applications.
Siow Woon Ng is an Assistant Professor at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany since 2023. She was a post-doctoral researcher at the Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Brno, Czech Republic. She received her Ph.D. in 2018 from Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, with part of her research carried out at University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. Her research interests include atomic layer deposition, additive manufacturing, scanning probe techniques, photo-electrochemistry, energy conversion and storage.
Prof. Junqiao Ding
Yunnan University, China
Title: Pure organic room-temperature electrophosphorescence.
Prof. Junqiao Ding received his BS degree from Wuhan University of Technology in 1999 and gained his PhD degree from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, CAS, in 2007 under the supervision of Prof. Lixiang Wang. After graduation, he joined the same institute as a research fellow and later was promoted as a professor in 2014. During 2010-2011, he performed postdoctoral work at the University of New Mexico. Since 2020, he worked as a professor in School of Chemical Science and Technology, Yunnan University. The research expertise is about organic/polymeric optoelectronic materials and devices for wearable electronics. Prof. Ding has developed a series of dendritic and polymeric phosphorescent metal complexes, thermally activated delayed fluorescence polymers, organic room-temperature electrophosphorescent small molecules and polymers, which can be used for efficient solution-processed OLEDs. He has filed 24 granted Chinese patents, and co-authored more than 140 papers in refereed journals, including Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater. and Nat. Commun. etc. Also, he was honored with a Natural Science Academic Achievement Award (2011 and 2013, Jilin Province), Science & Technology Progress Award (2012, Jilin Province), Yunling Scholar (2020, Yunnan Province) and an Excellent Supervisor of Chinese Academy of Science (2022, CAS).