Dr Alastair Lennox University of Bristol, UK
Alastair Lennox attained his PhD from the University of Bristol under the supervision of Prof Guy Lloyd-Jones. After a short time in industry, Alastair moved to the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis in Rostock to work with Prof Matthias Beller with an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, before moving to University of Wisconsin-Madison for further postdoctoral research with Prof Shannon Stahl. In 2018, Alastair returned to the UK with a Royal Society University Research Fellowship to start his own research programme at the University of Bristol. His group are interested in the development of novel synthetic methods with a strong emphasis on sustainability.
Professor Ilan Marek Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
lan Marek received his PhD in 1986 from the University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France under the supervision of Prof. Jean Normant. Following post-doctoral studies at the University Catholique de Louvain, Belgium with Prof. Leon Ghosez, backed to Paris he joined the CNRS in 1989. In 1997, he moved to the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and currently holds the Sir Michael and Lady Sobell Academic Chair. Professor Marek’s honors include the RSC Organometallic Awards (2012), Israel Chemical Society Excellence Award (2012), Janssen Pharmaceutica Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis (2012), the Moore Distinguished Scholar Appointment from CalTech (2013), The Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences (2015), The Yannai Award for Excellence in Teaching (2016), the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award by the ACS (2021). In 2017, he was elected Member of the French Academy of Sciences and in 2019, Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Professor Rubén Martin Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, Spain
Professor Takashi Ooi Nagoya University, UK
Takashi Ooi received his Ph.D. from Nagoya University (1994, Prof. Hisashi Yamamoto). After his postdoctoral study at MIT (Prof. Julius Rebek, Jr.), he was appointed as an assistant professor at Hokkaido University in 1995 and promoted to a lecturer (1998). He moved to Kyoto University as an associate professor (2001), and became a full professor of Nagoya University in 2006. Since 2013, he has been a professor of Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University. Research in his group is mainly focused on the molecular design and precise structural control of chiral organic molecular catalysts, particularly ion-pair catalysts, for selective organic synthesis.
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