James Neilson James Neilson studied Materials Science & Engineering at Lehigh University for his undergraduate degree, completing research with Professor Himanshu Jain, as well as Professor Stephen Elliot at the University of Cambridge during a summer exchange. James earned his Ph.D. in 2011 from the University of California Santa Barbara working with Professor Daniel Morse and Professor Ram Seshadri. He then performed postdoctoral research at Johns Hopkins University with Professor Tyrel McQueen until 2013. In 2013, he joined the faculty of Colorado State University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry. Since then, he has received numerous awards for his research and teaching, including the Sloan Research Fellowship from the A. P. Sloan Foundation, the Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, and early career awards from both the Department of Energy and National Science Foundation. Since his promotion to Associate Professor, James has received a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship to spend the 2022-2023 academic year at the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford. The key research theme throughout this journey has been to understand how materials synthesis influence structure and properties, along with challenges in elucidating the nature of order and disorder in atomistic structures. Kyoko Nozaki Kyoko Nozaki is a Professor at the University of Tokyo. She graduated from Kyoto University and received her Ph.D. in 1991 from the same university. Since 1991, she has been a faculty member at Kyoto University, moved to the University of Tokyo in 2002, and has been a Professor at the University of Tokyo since 2003. Her research interest is focused on the development of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts for polymer synthesis and organic synthesis. Lab web site: http://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/nozakilab/indexE.html Itziar Oyarzaball Dr. Oyarzabal is an Ikerbasque Research Fellow at BCMaterials, the Basque Center for Materials, Applications & Nanostructures. Itziar completed her PhD in Applied Chemistry and Polymeric Materials at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, Spain) in 2015, where she studied the magnetic (Single Molecule Magnet behaviour) and luminescent properties of discrete coordination complexes. The 3 months stay in the group of Dr. Brechin at the University of Edinburgh allowed her to receive the distinction of International Doctor and she was awarded with the extraordinary PhD Prize given by UPV/EHU. In 2016 she continued working at UPV/EHU and in 2017 she joined the group of Dr. Clérac at Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (CRPP, France) thanks to a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. In 2019 she prolonged her stay at CRPP due to a postdoctoral grant from the Basque Government, which allowed her to continue her research in the development of 2D metal-organic materials with interesting magnetic and conductive properties. Since 2021, she is working at BCMaterials and developing independent research lines around applicable high-performance magnetic materials.
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