Stephen R. Leone The University of California, Berkeley, United States
Stephen Leone is the John R. Thomas Endowed Chair in Physical Chemistry, Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and faculty investigator, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received his BA at Northwestern University in Chemistry and his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the University of Southern California and later established a lengthy career in Boulder, Colorado, with the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado, in the Institute JILA and the Departments of Chemistry and Physics. His honors include the American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry, the Herbert P. Broida Prize of the American Physical Society, the Bourke Medal of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Chemical Society Peter Debye Award, the Polanyi Medal of the Gas Kinetics Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics of the American Physical Society, the Ahmed Zewail Award of the American Chemical Society, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Warwick. He is a member of National Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research interests are ultrafast and attosecond laser investigations of atomic, molecular, and solid-state dynamics in the extreme ultraviolet and X-ray. His group developed femtosecond extreme ultraviolet transient absorption and extended the methodology to attosecond transient absorption and reflectivity, attosecond transient diffraction, and attosecond four-wave mixing. His laboratories explore electronic and vibrational superpositions, curve crossing dynamics and conical intersections, ring opening processes, photofragmentation, and singlet-to-triplet transitions, semiconductor band gap physics, polaron formation, charge transfer processes in solids, charge transport across junctions, and phase changes in materials.
Jonathan Reid University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Jonathan Reid is Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Bristol. His research interests are focused on the microphysics of aerosols, using novel techniques to study the physical, chemical and biological transformation of individual aerosol particles. He is director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Aerosol Science, the Editor-in-Chief of Aerosol Science and Technology, and the 2021 recipient of the Tilden Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Jana Roithová Radboud University, Netherlands
Jana Roithová graduated from Charles University in the Czech Republic (1998). Her Ph.D. thesis focused on reaction dynamics (2003), and she learned mass spectrometry techniques with Prof. Schwarz (Berlin). From 2007 to 2018, she was a lecturer and then a professor at Charles University. Since 2018, she has held a chair in spectroscopy and catalysis at Radboud University in the Netherlands. She develops techniques to study reaction mechanisms, focusing on reactive intermediates in metal-catalyzed reactions. Her research interests span from reaction mechanisms of organometallic reactions and mechanisms of small molecule activation to new reactivity concepts and reaction design. She is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received several prizes, e.g. the Ignaz L Lieben Award from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Rudolf Lukeš prize from the Czech Chemical Society.
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