Eugene Chen Eugene Chen is a University Distinguished Professor, the John K. Stille Endowed Chair in Chemistry, and the Millennial Professor of Polymer Science and Sustainability. He received his undergraduate education in China and his Ph.D. degree from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His group’s research is centered on polymer science, green & sustainable chemistry, and chemical catalysis. His team has been recognized with: Excellence in Commercialization Award in 2012 by the Colorado Cleantech Industry Association; the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award in 2015 by the US Environmental Protection Agency; and the Arthur Cope Mid-Career Scholar Award in 2019 by the American Chemical Society. Andrew P. Dove Andrew P. Dove is a Professor of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham. His group’s research is centred around degradation in polymers with specific focusses on the development and application of sustainable polymers and degradable polymeric biomaterials. Andrew completed his Ph.D. at Imperial College, London in 2003 where he focused on metal catalyzed coordination insertion polymerization. Andrew undertook postdoctoral research first under the guidance of Prof. Robert M. Waymouth at Stanford University, California, and then as a CIPMA postdoctoral fellow at IBM, San Jose, California, under the supervision of Dr. James L. Hedrick and Prof. Robert M. Waymouth. Andrew returned to the UK to take up a RCUK Fellowship in Nanotechnology at the University of Warwick in 2005, being appointed as Assistant Professor in 2006, Associate Professor in 2009 and Full Professor in 2014. He moved to the University of Birmingham in 2018 where he is a Professor of Sustainable Polymer Chemistry. His work has been acknowledged by several awards and prizes including the 2014 RSC Gibson-Fawcett Award, 2016 ACS Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Researcher Award, 2018 RSC Norman Heatley Award, 2019 MacroGroup UK Medal and 2022 RSC Corday-Morgan Prize. María Escudero Escribano María Escudero Escribano is an ICREA Professor at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) in Barcelona, where she leads the NanoElectrocatalysis and Sustainable Chemistry (NanoESC) Group. She graduated in Chemical Engineering from the University of Extremadura and obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Autonomous University of Madrid (2011). She carried out her postdoctoral research at the Technical University of Denmark (2012-2015) and was a DFF-Sapere Aude: Research Fellow at Stanford University (2015-2017). She joined the University of Copenhagen in 2017 as a tenure-track Assistant Professor and Group Leader in 2017 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2021. In September 2022, she joined ICN2 as an ICREA Professor. The NanoESC Group (https://www.nanoesclab.com/), led by María, investigates tailored interfaces and catalyst nanomaterials for renewable energy conversion and production of sustainable fuels and chemicals. María has received numerous awards at national and international levels in recognition of her groundbreaking research. These awards include the European Young Chemist Award (Gold Medal) 2016, the Princess of Girona Scientific Research Award 2018, the Electrochemical Society (ECS) Energy Technology Division Young Investigator Award 2018, the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry Young Researchers Award 2019, the Clara Immerwahr Award 2019, the RSC Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division Horizon Prize: John Jeyes Award 2021, and the Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship 2021. She is an Elected Member of the Young Academy of Spain. In 2022, María was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council with her project ATOMISTIC: atomic-scale tailored materials for electrochemical methane activation and production of valuable chemicals.
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