Abil Aliev is a principal research fellow at University College London. He carried out his PhD on stereochemical NMR applications at Institute of Chemical Physics and People's Friendship University in Moscow. Subsequently, he undertook postdoctoral positions in solid-state NMR at St. Andrews University and University College London. He started his independent carrier at University College London in 1995. His work involves applications of NMR and computational techniques for molecular structure and dynamics studies, with a focus on noncovalent interactions in solution and solid states.
Andrew Atkinson is a research scientist at the Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale (IPBS), Toulouse, France. His doctoral studies were carried out under the supervision of Prof. R.J.P. Williams, FRS at the University of Oxford. He has held a number of positions in academia and industry and is the author of over 70 papers. Most recently, he was NMR Facility Manager at the Centre for Biomolecular Spectroscopy, King's College London, UK, where he oversaw the expansion of the Facility to accommodate the growth of the use of NMR in research at King's.
Darcy Burns obtained a BSc from the University of Western Ontario in 1998 and a PhD from the University of Toronto in 2008. Darcy has managed NMR facilities for the past 18 years; first at Trent University from 2004–2009, and then at the University of Toronto from 2009–2022. He has co-authored over 30 publications on NMR, including in Journal articles, book chapters, and the book Optimizing NMR Methods for Structure Elucidation. He has also taught organic NMR spectroscopy at undergraduate and graduate level. Darcy currently oversees the CSICOMP NMR Facility at the University of Toronto, which houses 10 NMR spectrometers, a CW EPR spectrometer, and associated accessories, and serves more than 300 clients annually. In 2020, Darcy received the University of Toronto ‘Dean's Outstanding Technical Service Award’ for distinguished staff service at the University.
Jarosław Jaźwiński is a Professor at the Institute of Organic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He studied chemistry at the Technical University of Warsaw, where he received his MSc in 1978. Then, he received his PhD degree in supramolecular chemistry at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw) in 1984 (working with Dr Koliński), and did postdoctoral work from 1984 to 1986, at University Luis Pasteur (Strasbourg, France) in the laboratory of Professor Jean-Marie Lehn. In 1989, he returned to the Institute of Organic Chemistry PAS, where he became an associate professor in 2010 and a full professor in 2013. He began his scientific career in the field of supramolecular chemistry, then he became interested in various aspects of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), in which he is currently working.
Teobald Kupka got his PhD degree from the Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland in 1992. From 1994 he co-organized the Department of Medical Physics, Institute of Physics, University of Silesia. He spent sabbaticals at the Department of Physics, University of Waterloo (1998–2000), and went to Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, USA (as visiting professor, 2001–2004) and Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (2005–2006). Since 2006 he has been working at the Institute of Chemistry, University of Opole, Opole, Poland. He is involved in both experimental NMR studies of biologically important molecules and molecular modeling of their spectroscopic parameters (NMR, IR and Raman).
Jozef Kowalewski received his PhD from Stockholm University in 1975. He began working with nuclear spin relaxation as a postdoctoral fellow at Florida State University and this has ever since been the main area of his research. He became professor of physical chemistry at Stockholm University in 1986 and was chairman of the department of physical, inorganic and structural chemistry between 1993 and 2005. Dr Kowalewski has supervised 17 PhD students and authored about 200 scientific papers and a book (together with Lena Mäler). Since 2014, he has been Professor Emeritus at Stockholm University.
Ryan Mewis is a senior lecturer in inorganic chemistry at Manchester Metropolitan University. He obtained his MChem degree and PhD from the University of Hull in 2005 and 2009 respectively, before working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of York on the hyperpolarisation technique SABRE (Signal Amplification By Reversible Exchange) from 2009 to 2015. He is the co-author of 45 articles, 2 book chapters and holds a single patent. Current research interest is focused on drugs of abuse, and their manual or automated detection by NMR-based techniques using high- and low-field spectrometers.
Malcolm Prior is a senior research fellow in Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Nottingham. He first encountered magnetic resonance spectroscopy in 1985 when he attended St George's, University of London during the sandwich year of his BSc in Applied Biology. After graduation he returned to St. George's to pursue his interest of in vivo magnetic resonance during his studies for his PhD in biochemistry. He moved to the University of Nottingham in 1991 where he has been central to the development of pre-clinical magnetic resonance and now manages a facility with two high field systems. He has been a contributor to the Royal Society's Specialist Periodical Reports since 1994.
Bill Reynolds obtained a BSc (Honors Chemistry) in 1959 and a PhD in NMR spectroscopy in 1963 from the University of Manitoba. From 1963–1965, he was the Sir William Ramsey Fellow for Canada at University College London. In 1965 he became a Faculty member at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto where he is currently an Emeritus Professor. From 1993–2005, he was an Editor for Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry. His publications include 212 with staff and students at Universities in Mexico and throughout the Caribbean, using NMR for natural product structure elucidation. In 2014 he was the first recipient of the James N. Shoolery award for contributions to Small Molecule NMR Spectroscopy and in 2021 the University of Toronto and Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry co-hosted a Symposium in his honour.
Matthew Wallace is a research fellow in the School of Pharmacy at the University of East Anglia. He obtained his Master's degree in Chemistry from the University of Liverpool in 2013 and his PhD in 2017. He then moved to the University of East Anglia as an independent research fellow in NMR technique development, funded by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. His research focuses on the use of NMR imaging techniques to study hydrogel materials and pharmaceuticals. He has also developed methods for the direct measurement of the pH and ion concentrations of aqueous samples by NMR.
Alexander Wilcock is a PhD student at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he obtained his MChem Chemistry degree in 2020. His research is concerned with using Signal Amplification by Reversible Exchange (SABRE) to hyperpolarise bioactive molecules in NMR. He is also a member of the Manchester Drug Analysis & Knowledge Exchange (MANDRAKE) team, who work in analysing illicit drugs seized by the police in Manchester to yield information to aid harm reduction.
