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

Plenary Speakers

Prof. Serge Cosnier
Université Grenoble Alpes, France
Title: Will announce soon
Dr Serge Cosnier is currently Emeritus Director of Research at CNRS at the Grenoble Alpes University (France) and professor at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice (Poland). He also is the scientific director of the POLYNAT Carnot Institute devoted to the design of new bio-based functional bio-sourced materials.

His activity is focused on the molecular electrochemistry and bioelectrochemistry with the development of electrode materials whose applications include analytical chemistry with biological sensors, electrocatalysis, photochemistry, electrochemiluminescence, bioreactors, electrochemical biomimetic systems and energy bioconversion with biofuel cells, hybrid fuel cells and abiotic fuel cells. His research interests deal with the immobilization of macromolecular biomolecules and transduction of their molecular recognition properties or catalytic activity for the design of biosensors, bioreactors and biofuel cells. He has developed innovative conceptual advances in the field of electrogenerated organic polymers, inorganic nanostructured materials and 3D nanostructured conductive materials based on carbon nanotubes. He has thus made important contributions in the area of biomimetic sensors, enzymatic biofuel cells, electrochemical biosensors, immunosensors, aptasensors and DNA sensors.

He serves as Editor of Bioelectrochemistry and Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Analytical Chemistry. Dr Cosnier has authored over 413 peer reviewed publications (h-index WoS 72, Google Scholar 88). In 2010, he was appointed as Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry. In 2013, Dr Cosnier became a member of the Academia Europaea and was elected member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2019 and Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2021. In 2024, he received the Giulio Milazzo Prize of the Bioelectrochemistry Society.
Prof. Itamar Willner
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Title: Will be announced soon
Itamar Willner, born on January 27, 1947, holds Israeli nationality and is currently a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. He obtained his doctorate in chemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel in 1978. He was elected as an academician of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2002, an academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2004, an academician of the German National Academy of Sciences in 2009, and a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2021.

His research fields cover supramolecular chemistry, nanomaterials, and biomaterials. He has innovatively constructed a series of bio/nano functional self-assembly systems such as DNA molecular machines, logic gates, hybrid assemblies, and multi-level assemblies by using biomacromolecules such as DNA and proteins combined with metal nanoparticles. Based on these functional assemblies, he has developed a series of new methods of bio-nano catalysis and proposed the new concept of nucleoapzymes, greatly improving the efficiency and specificity of simulated biological enzyme catalysis. At the same time, he has explored the application of nano-assemblies in the fields of bio-photoelectric sensing and intelligent responsive soft materials, making outstanding contributions to this research field. Based on the previous work, he recently developed the new concept of DNA dynamic networks in systematic chemistry, providing a new platform and powerful tool for in-depth research on the nonequilibrium assembly behavior and potential applications of biomacromolecules in life processes. He has systematically studied the construction of new systems for artificial photosynthesis/photosynthesis and the corresponding energy dissipation mechanisms. Professor Itamar Willner has published over 850 SCI papers in internationally renowned journals such as Nature and Science, with over 89,000 citations and an H-index of 142. He has been granted over 30 invention patents. He has successively won the Israel Chemistry Prize, Rothschild Prize, and EMET Prize (awarded by the Prime Minister of Israel) and is also the winner of the Israel Chemical Society Gold Medal. He has served or currently serves as an editorial board member of nearly 20 academic journals, including JACS, ACIE, Nano Lett., ACS Nano, Small, and ChemPhysChem.

Professor Itamar Willner's pioneering scientific concepts, viewpoints, and a series of innovative achievements have had important and far-reaching impacts in the fields of molecular-supramolecular electronics, intelligent responsive materials, controllable wetting and functional interfaces for loading/release, and photoelectric/bioelectric assembly systems. His forward-looking concepts and achievements have led to new applications in the fields of photo/electrochemical (bio) probes, design of micro/nano assemblies for drug delivery, synthesis of new photocatalysts, and molecular machines and devices. Professor Itamar Willner maintains close ties with the Chinese scientific community and has long collaborated with Chinese scholars. He was employed as an honorary professor of our university in 2007, co-led the establishment of the Ministry of Education International Joint Laboratory for Structurally Controllable Molecular Engineering with Academician Tian He in 2017 as the foreign director, and was employed as an internationally renowned master visiting professor of our university in 2022 to carry out in-depth research in cutting-edge disciplines, creating a highland for basic research, talent cultivation, and international cooperation in precision chemistry and molecular engineering that gathers top scientists from home and abroad.
Prof. Michael Dolg
Beijing Normal University, China
Title: Will be announced soon
Will be announced soon
Prof. Anne-Marie Caminade
LCC-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, France
Title: Dendrimers: molecular trees with original properties
Anne-Marie Caminade is a Director of Research Exceptional Class at the CNRS and Deputy Director of the Coordination Chemistry Laboratory in Toulouse, France. She is the creator of phosphorus dendrimers, which are large, highly branched molecules, also known as "molecular trees". The modification of the terminal functions of dendrimers (the equivalent of tree leaves) offers properties in different fields such as catalysis, nanomaterials, or health (2 start-ups have emerged from her research work in this field). She is the author of about 560 publications (h index = 80) and 18 patents.
Prof. Jacob Klein
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Title: Will be announced soon
Jacob Klein is the Herman Mark Professor of Soft Matter Physics at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. From 2000-2007 he was the Dr. Lee’s Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and Head of its Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Department (2000-2005). His research interests have ranged from the dynamics and interfacial properties of polymers to the behaviour of confined fluids and biological lubrication. His honours include the High Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society (1995), the 2011 Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry Award of the UK Royal Society of Chemistry, the 2012 Tribology Gold Medal, the 2015 David Turnbull Lectureship Award of the Materials Research Society, the 2017 Liquid Matter Prize of the European Physical Society, the 2019 Gold Medal of the Israel Chemical Society, the 2020 Rothschild Prize, the 2021 Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics of the American Physical Society and the Overbeek Gold Medal of the European Colloid and Interface Society. In 2009 and 2017, he received ERC Advanced Grants. In 2013 he was elected to the European Academy and in 2016 he was elected to the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities.
Prof. Markku Leskela
University of Helsinki, Finland
Title: Recent development of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) chemistry
Markku Leskelä (born 1950) received both M.Sc. (1974) and PhD (1980) degrees from Helsinki University of Technology. During 1979-1986 he worked at University of Oulu as associate professor, in 1986-1990 at University of Turku as professor and in 1990-2018 at University of Helsinki as professor of inorganic chemistry. He made visits abroad in 1983 (University of Utrecht), 1987-1988 (University of Florida) and in 1999 (University of Paris VI).

His research interests cover development of chemistry for Atomic Layer Deposition of thin films, metal compound mediated activation of small molecules and luminescent materials. He has worked as vice-director (2002-2007) and director (2012-2017) in two centers of excellence funded by Academy of Finland. He has published about 740 original and 60 review papers which have been cited 58 000 times (h-index 118; Google Scholar). He holds40+ patents. He was nominated in 2004 as ISI Highly Cited Author in materials science. He has received several honors and awards, for example Magnus Ehrnrooth Foundation Award in Chemistry (2002), A.I Virtanen award (2011), American Vacuum Society ALD innovation award (2012), Honorary award of Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters (2014), Honorary doctor (University of Tartu 2016). He is a member of four academies of sciences.He has and has had several positions of trust in universities (for example board of trustees at University of Helsinki 2010-2017), scientific societies, academies (president of the Finnish Academy of Technical Sciences 2019-2022)and foundations.
Prof. Wen-Hua Sun
Institute of Chemistry; CAS, China
Title: Late-transition metal catalysts for ethylene reactivity: from benchtop into industrial process
Prof. Dr. Wen-Hua Sun heads individual groups of organometallic chemistry and catalysis in the Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences since October of 1999 and Chemistry and Fine Chemical Guangdong Laboratory (Shantou) since 2021, and has also been a professor in teaching at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2014. Received his B.Sc. in chemistry at Lanzhou University (1986) and Ph.D at Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP, 1989/1994). He worked in LICP as Associate Professor (1993) and Hokkaido University with JSPS, COE and JST. He was visiting professors at Munster University (2001-2002), Nagoya University (2003), Louis Pasteur University (2005) and Strasburg University (2009). He was selected as Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (2011) and Fellow of European Academy of Sciences (2017). His contributions have had international impacts across the areas of complex catalysts in transforming ethylene into conversional alpha-olefins and polyolefins as well as biodegradable polymers and bio-massive process as well as their intermediates and reaction mechanism. One iron catalysts for ethylene oligomerization has successfully been commercialized. His group has been continously cooperated with domestic and international colleagues. His services in academy include editorial board members for Polymer, Molecules, Catalysts, Inorganics, Polyolefin Journal and General Chemistry, et al. Email: whsun@iccas.ac.cn Website: http://whsun.iccas.ac.cn ORCID: 0000-0002-6614-9284; ResearcherID: www.researcherid.com/rid/C-9995-2010
Prof. Ron Naaman
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Title: Chirality and the electron spin- A miraculous match
Born in Israel, Prof. Ron Naaman earned his BSc in 1973 from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and his PhD in 1978 from the Weizmann Institute of Science. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University in California, and spent a year in the Department of Chemistry at Harvard University. In 1981, Prof. Naaman joined the Weizmann Institute. From 1989-1995, Ron chaired the Institute’s Chemical Services Unit and from 1995-2000, he headed the Department of Chemical Physics. From 2008-2010, Prof. Naaman was the Chair of the Scientific Council at the Institute. His research focusses on studying the interaction of electrons and their spin with organic and bio-related molecules. He is the Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and member of Academia Europaea. He is the recipient of the Chiral Medal and the gold medal of the Israel Chemical Society.
Prof. Chanjuan Xi
Tsinghua University, China
Title: Photoredox-Catalyzed Dearomative Carboxylation of Arenes with Carbon Dioxide
Chanjuan Xi is a Professor of Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University. She graduated from Lanzhou University in 1986. She worked at Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS (1986-1995). In course of her work, she earned a Master’s degree in Chemistry in 1994. In 1996, she joined Hokkaido University and earned her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1999, and spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow in Catalysis Research Center in Hokkaido University. In 2000, she joined Tsinghua University as Associate Professor and then she was promoted to a full Professor in 2005. She was visiting professor at Hokkaido University (in 2011) and University of Strasbourg (in 2015). Her research focuses on the oxidative coupling of unsaturated substrates based on the early transition metal complexes and selective cleavage of C–H, C–C and C–X bonds catalyzed by transition-metal compounds towards synthesis of cyclic compounds. Recently her interests have expanded towards sustainable organic chemistry.
Prof. Wolfram Jaegermann
TU Darmstadt, Germany
Title: Inorganic artificial leaf approaches for solar to fuel conversion: Physico chemical boundary conditions and material science challenges
Wolfram Jaegermann, born 1954, is retired Full Professor of Surface Science at TU Darmstadt. His mainresearchfieldsare: Surface science and thinfilmsynthesisofphotovoltaicand(photo) electrochemicalenergyconverters, intercalationbatteries, and inorganic/organicsemiconductors and composites. He was Initiator, Coordinator and Speaker of the TU Darmstadt Excellency Graduate School “Energy Science and Engineering” and of the DFG priority program “Solar H2” and was scientific coordinator ofmany energy related collaborative research projects including EC doctoral schools. He was Dean ofthe Materials Science Department and co-initiator and Vice-Dean of the new master degree course of Energy Science at TU Darmstadt. He is coauthor of more than 650 publications with an actual h-index of 80.