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Angelo Albini is currently Emeritus Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Pavia, Italy. A native of Milan, he completed his studies in Chemistry at Pavia in 1972. After postdoctoral work at the Max-Plank Institute for Radiation Chemistry in Muelheim, Germany (1973–1974), he joined the Faculty at Pavia in 1975 as an assistant and then associate (since 1981) professor. He accepted a Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Torino in 1990 and then moved again to Pavia in 1993. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Western Ontario (Canada, 1977–78) and Odense (Denmark, 1983). He is coauthor/editor of five books (among others, Heterocyclic N-Oxides, CRC, Orlando, 1990; Drugs: Photochemistry and Photostability, RSC, Cambridge, 1998; Handbook of Preparative Photochemistry, Wiley-VCH, 2009), the senior reporter of the Specialist Periodical Reports on Photochemistry since 2008, as well as coauthor of several reviews and research articles.
Zacharias Amara graduated as a pharmacist with a Master’s degree in organic chemistry from the University of Paris-Sud (now Paris-Saclay). In 2012, he completed his PhD under the supervision of Professor Delphine Joseph and then moved to the University of Nottingham undertaking a postdoctoral position in the groups of Professor Martyn Poliakoff and Professor Mike George. He returned to Paris in 2015 and after a postdoctoral position in the group of Professor Janine Cossy at Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielle (ESPCI ParisTech), he obtained his permanent position as associate professor at National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (CNAM) in 2016. His research interests focus on the development of new catalytic transformations, photochemistry and continuous processes applied to the synthesis of pharmaceutical and fine chemical products. He received the Ignition Award from the Pharmaceutical Round Table (ACS Green Chemistry Institute, 2017) and the Jean Normant Prize (French Chemical Society, 2023). He is currently a “chargé de mission” of the Green Chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society and recently co-founded the spin-off company Linium Biochemicals.
Valeria Amendola (Scopus ID: 6601991229; ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5219-6074) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry of the University of Pavia, Italy. Her research interests are in the supramolecular chemistry field, and are especially focused on the development of molecular cages for the capture of target pollutants in contaminated media. Since 2020, she has been responsible for the research project MOCA (Metal Organic frameworks and organic CAges for highly selective gas separation membranes and heavy metal capture devices) sponsored by the Cariplo Foundation (grant no. 2019–2090). Her research activity has produced 94 publications, with about 5400 total citations (h-index: 35), including several chapters in previous volumes of this series.
Antonino Arrigo got his Master’s degree in Chemistry in 2011. He did a PhD in Photochemistry at the University of Messina, Sicily, also including one academic year spent at the Arizona State University. After some postdoc positions, in Messina and in Bologna, he had some years of work experience in industry. Nowadays, he is working as a researcher at the University of Messina. His previous and current research is focusing on solar energy conversion, with particular emphasis on designing and studying supramolecular systems for artificial photosynthesis, and also on studying semiconductor nanosystems for applications in luminescent solar concentrators.
Valentina Benazzi received her Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and Chemical Technologies at University of Genoa and a Master’s degree in Organic Chemistry at University of Pavia. Leveraging on the Erasmus+ Traineeship, she carried out her Master’s thesis at the Max Planck Institute in Potsdam, with a project focused on the synthesis of glycan chains for the creation of peptidoglycans, that could be used for diagnostic screening. She is currently a PhD student in Pavia under the supervision of Prof. Stefano Protti and her research interests focus on photocatalysis for the exploitation of fish and agri-food waste and the synthesis of advanced polymers and carbon nanomaterials.
Sergio M. Bonesi was born in Argentina and obtained his MSc degree from University of Buenos Aires in 1988. He obtained his PhD degree from University of Buenos Aires in 1996, under the supervision of Professor Dr Rosa Erra Balsells. After a postdoctoral stage under the supervision of Professor Angelo Albini at the University of Pavia, he returned to Argentina and worked with Professor Dr R. Erra Balsells in the area of photochemistry of heteroaromatic compounds. He is currently an Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Department of Organic Chemistry, FCEyN, University of Buenos Aires. His interests are in the areas of photoinduced rearrangement reactions, synthetic photochemistry and steady-state and time-resolved spectroscopies. He is devoted to studying photoreactions in confined media.
Ambra M. Cancelliere obtained her PhD in 2021 from the University of Messina under the supervision of Prof. Campagna. Her research is focused on molecular systems for application in artificial photosynthetic systems. In detail she designed and investigated new multinuclear systems for CO2 reduction. She now occupies a postdoc position in the supramolecular photochemistry group in Messina, working on earth-abundant metal complexes.
Lorenzo Casimiro received his PhD in Chemistry in 2020 at the University of Bologna (Italy), under the supervision of Prof. Serena Silvi and Prof. Alberto Credi, in collaboration with the CLAN – Center for Light Activated Nanostructures. His PhD thesis, titled “Novel Photo- and Electro-responsive Supramolecular Systems and Molecular Machines” received the European Photochemistry Association and the Italian Group of Photochemistry awards for the best PhD thesis in photochemistry. After spending 3 years as a post-doctoral fellow at the PPSM Laboratory in ENS Paris-Saclay (France), in the groups of Dr Rémi Métivier and Dr Clémence Allain, he currently holds a post-doctoral position in the E-POM team, headed by Dr Guillaume Izzet, at Sorbonne University, in Paris. His research activity focuses on photo-, electro-, and mechano-responsive inorganic or molecular, supra- and macro-molecular materials.
Carla Cunha is a PhD student in the Laboratory of Photochemistry of the Department of Chemistry, University of Coimbra, under the supervision of Professor João Sérgio Seixas de Melo. Her research focuses mainly on the synthesis and photophysical characterization of new organic compounds and polymers or oligomers with different chromophoric core structures in order to obtain systems with improved luminescence efficiency for future practical applications such as in OLEDs or in chemical sensors. She is the author and co-author of 10 manuscripts. Her main areas of interest focus on photochemistry, physical chemistry, and computational chemistry.
Mariano Curti received his PhD degree in Chemistry in 2017, from Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (Argentina), where he worked with Prof. Cecilia Mendive on photonic materials applied in heterogeneous photocatalysis. In 2018 he joined the group of Prof. Detlef Bahnemann at the Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany); there, he focused on mechanistic studies of heterogeneous photocatalysis. In 2020 he moved to the Institut Català d’Investigació Química (ICIQ, Spain) with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND fellowship, where he is working within the group of Dr Elisabet Romero on the design and implementation of artificial chromophore-protein assemblies for sunlight conversion. His research interests are centered around the physical chemistry of photoactive systems, and encompass both experimental and computational methods.
Madeline Denison received her BA degree in 2019 from Albion College. She is currently studying at Wayne State University under the direction of Prof. Jeremy J. Kodanko in pursuit of her PhD She is working on the synthesis and characterization of iridium-based probes and ruthenium-based complexes for dual action photodynamic and photoactivated chemotherapy. She was awarded a 2021–2022 Chemical Biology Interface (CBI) fellowship, the organic chemistry top graduate student award in 2023, and 2023–2024 Thomas C. Rumble University Graduate Fellowship through the Department of Chemistry at Wayne State University.
Daniele Dondi (ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6635-4467; Scopus Author ID: 7003556332) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry of the University of Pavia. His research activity moved from photochemistry to green chemistry and polymer chemistry. He is currently the local coordinator of the PRIN project (PRIN 20175TXJER BIO_CHEAPER). His research activity is documented in 140 papers in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, with a total number of 5167 citations for a total h-index of 35 (Scopus, March 2023).
Rui Fausto (ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8264-6854) is a professor of Chemistry and Director of the Laboratory for Molecular Cryospectroscopy and Biospectroscopy and of the Coimbra Chemistry Research Centre at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. His research interests range from spectroscopy and solid-state photochemistry to chemical imaging, theoretical and computational chemistry, chemometrics, and vibrationally-induced chemistry. He has published about 500 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited several books, either dedicated to the general public or to professional chemists and physicists. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Molecular Structure. Throughout his career, he has occupied many different positions on the administration and scientific boards of the University of Coimbra, including the presidency of the Academic Council and the vice-presidency of the Scientific and Directive boards of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, and the presidency of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and of the Chemistry Department. Prof. Rui Fausto has served as a University of Coimbra Senator and as President of the Physicochemical Division of the Portuguese Chemical Society. In 2004 and 2005 he was awarded the “Stimulus to the Excellence in Science Prize” of the Portuguese Science Foundation. He is a member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (Paris), several international scientific societies and the Honor Committee of the Portugal-Latvia Association, and coordinator of the High-Education Committee of the International Observatory of Human Rights.
Jacopo Fregoni (ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4356-3060) obtained his PhD from the University of Modena in 2020, investigating the photochemistry of molecules in nanocavities. The main work produced in his PhD (in collaboration with G. Granucci, M. Persico and S. Corni) was awarded two prizes by the Italian Chemical Society. After the PhD, Jacopo joined the group of Dr Johannes Feist in Madrid, where he further developed his research interests in the interaction of electromagnetic environments with material structures. His expertise includes photochemical processes, ultrafast spectroscopies, and quantum dynamics in the presence of nanostructures. Currently, Jacopo handles optics and photonics, and molecular and chemical physics manuscripts as an Associate Editor at Communications Physics.
Dipti Garg received her MSc in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M), Chennai, India (2019). She spent 1 year at the Research & Development Centre, Dabur, India. She joined the group of Prof. Jayaraman Sivaguru at BGSU in 2020 and is working towards her doctoral degree. Her research focuses on exploring excited state reactivity for developing novel photocycloaddition reactions. She is also involved in the design, synthesis and evaluation of next generation optical materials for eye protection.
Srabanti Ghosh is presently working as a Senior Scientist, Energy Materials & Devices Division, at CSIR – Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata, India. She received her PhD degree in Chemistry from UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Kolkata Centre, and Jadavpur University, India. She completed postdoctoral programs at the University of Paris SUD, France (Marie Curie Cofunded). She worked as a GOT Energy Talent Cofunded Marie Curie Research Fellow at Universidad de Alcala, Spain. Her main research interests include synthesis and characterization of functional materials at the nanoscale and their photoelectrochemical properties for energy conversion devices, photocatalysts, electrocatalysts, fuel cells, and biosensing applications. She has co-authored 93 publications in international scientific journals and 3 patents, edited 6 books, and contributed 21 book chapters covering the large fields of photocatalysis, conjugated polymers, heterostructure nanomaterials, and water treatment. She routinely acts as a reviewer of SCI Journals from different publishers (RSC, ACS, Elsevier, Wiley, Springer Nature, MDPI, among others). Her current research is focused on nanohybrid materials, conducting polymer nanostructures for solar light harvesting and photocatalysis applications.
Ileana Ielo graduated in Chemistry in 2013 at the University of Messina (Unime), where she obtained a PhD in Chemical Sciences in 2017. After her doctorate, she received a training scholarship and a research grant at CNR in the Institute of Nanostructured Materials (CNR-ISMN) and a research grant at Unime (04/2018–09/2022). Her research activity includes: (i) the synthesis of mono and binuclear crystalline structures of transition metals and related X-ray crystallography, (ii) the study of the thermodynamic parameters of the acid-base behavior of solutions of transition metal complexes by UV/vis spectroscopy, (iii) synthesis of functional organic nanomaterials, for potential applications in the nano- and biotechnological fields, sensors, optoelectronics, photonics, and materials science.
Fabio Juliá (ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8903-4482) obtained his PhD at the University of Murcia (Spain) under the supervision of Pablo González-Herrero, working on photophysical studies of organometallic platinum complexes. During his postdoctoral stage he worked in the groups of Daniele Leonori (University of Manchester, UK) and Tobias Ritter (Max Planck Institute, Germany), working on photoredox assembly of C–N bonds, halogen-atom transfer and late-stage C–H functionalization reactions. In 2021 he started his independent career at ICIQ (Spain) and since 2023 he has been an Assistant Professor – “Ramón y Cajal” Fellow at the University of Murcia (Spain), where he is focused on developing new and sustainable synthetic tools by combining Earth-abundant metal complexes and photochemistry.
Jeremy Kodanko (ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5196-7463) obtained his BS degree with Honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in 1998. He completed his PhD in 2003 at the University of California-Irvine, working with Professor Larry E. Overman. From 2003 to 2006, Jeremy Kodanko was a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the laboratory of Professor Stephen J. Lippard. He has been a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry at Wayne State University since 2006, where his research program focuses on development of metal complexes for various protein targeting applications. Since 2016 Jeremy has served as the Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Chair of the Department of Chemistry at Wayne State University. He has won several awards for his teaching and service, including Outstanding Graduate Director Award and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Award.
Aakrati Kushwaha received her MSc in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M), Chennai, India (2022). She joined the group of Prof. Jayaraman Sivaguru at BGSU in 2022 and is working towards her doctoral degree. Her research focuses on exploring excited state reactivity for developing novel excited state phototransformations and light responsive polymeric materials.
Sonia La Cognata (Scopus ID: 57200437479; ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7393-802X) is a research fellow of the University of Pavia, where she obtained her PhD in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and related Industrial Innovation in 2021 under the supervision of V. Amendola. During her PhD, Sonia’s research focused on the application of cage-like molecules in molecular recognition, sensing and extraction processes. Her research is now focused on the development of materials for the separation of gas mixtures within the project MOCA, sponsored by the Cariplo Foundation (grant no. 2019-2090).
Giuseppina La Ganga (ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2421-1294) is an Associate Professor at University of Messina. In 2009 she graduated in Chemistry cum laude and in 2013 she obtained a PhD in Chemistry. In 2014 she received the EPA Prize for the best PhD thesis in Photochemistry 2014. She works in the field of supramolecular photochemistry with particular attention to the photochemical conversion of solar energy. Her research activity ranges from the photophysical study of new supramolecular species to the design, synthesis and study of new systems for the photo-induced production of oxygen from water. Recently she was awarded the GIF Young Investigator Award 2019.
Maxime Lancel was born in Dieppe in Normandy (France). He graduated from the University of Rouen with a Master’s degree in organic chemistry. Then, he moved to Paris where he first completed his final year Master’s internship under the supervision of Professor Zacharias Amara at GBCM Laboratory at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (CNAM), working on the development of supported photocatalysts, and then obtained a French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation scholarship to pursue a PhD in photochemistry and flow chemistry in the same laboratory. His PhD focuses on the discovery of innovative strategies to improve the sustainability of photochemical processes. It encompasses the conception of organic and/or heterogenized photocatalysts irradiated under low energy light in continuous flow photoreactors.
Kavyasree Manal received her BS-MS in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, India (2021). She joined the group of Prof. Jayaraman Sivaguru at BGSU in 2021 and is working towards her doctoral degree. Her research focuses on developing new and novel excited state photochemical transformations and evaluation of photophysical characteristics of compounds to understand their chemical reactivity in molecular and macromolecular systems.
Alberto Mezzetti (ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8990-916X) got his PhD in Chemical Sciences in 2002 with research developed at the University of Padua, Italy and CEA-Saclay, France, under the supervision of Prof. Giacometti and Dr Leibl. After post-doctoral research at FBK institute (Trento, Italy) and University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France) he took a position as a lecturer at the University of Lille (France) in 2004. After research stints at CEA-Saclay and University College London he moved to Sorbonne University, Paris in 2015 where he is currently an Associate Professor. His main interest is the study of reaction mechanisms by spectroscopic techniques (EPR, FTIR, Raman, resonance Raman, UV-Vis, flash photolysis, fluorescence) in different fields of chemistry, biochemistry and materials science. He is a specialist in time-resolved infrared spectroscopy applied to photobiological reactions. Dr Mezzetti recently organized (June 2023) the MECAREACT Thematic School in Paris, focused on optical spectroscopies as tools in the study of reaction mechanisms in all fields of chemistry.
Timur Nikitin (ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0907-5936) graduated from Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia, in 1999. He obtained his PhD degree in Chemistry from the University of Helsinki, Finland, where he studied optical and structural properties of different nanomaterials, including silicon nanocrystals embedded in silica, and carbon nanotubes, by Raman spectroscopy and other optical methods. After his PhD, he was involved in the investigation of optical and pyroelectric properties of self-assembled diphenylalanine microtubes at the University of Aveiro, Portugal and at Ural Federal University, Russia. He is now a researcher in the Coimbra Chemistry Center (Laboratory for Molecular Cryospectroscopy and Biospectroscopy), at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Dr Timur Nikitin is an author of 34 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. His current scientific activities center on matrix isolation spectroscopy of high-energy rare conformers prepared by narrowband near-infrared selective vibrational excitation, and Raman spectroscopy of nanomaterials.
Bernardo Albuquerque Nogueira obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 2022. During his PhD project, which involved the development and characterization of new color polymorphic systems, Bernardo was also a visiting PhD at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory for Molecular Cryospectroscopy and Biospectroscopy of the Coimbra Chemistry Research Centre, at the University of Coimbra. He has published 25+ scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and presently, his main scientific activity is focused on vibrational spectroscopy and molecular structure studies.
Meghan J. Oddy completed her BSc majoring in Chemistry and Physics at the University of Cape Town in 2018. She then obtained her BSc (Hons) degree in Chemistry from the same institute in 2019, during which she worked under the supervision of Professor Roger Hunter. She joined the Petersen group in 2020 as a PhD student where her current research focuses on employing single electron transfer and triplet energy transfer activation modes for the photocatalytic synthesis of biologically important nitrogen-containing heterocycles.
Jayachandran Parthiban received his MSc in Chemistry from Madras Christian college, India (2011). He spent 2 years at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He joined the research group of Prof. Jayaraman Sivaguru at BGSU in 2019 and is working towards his doctoral degree. His research is focused on developing new catalytic methods for photochemical transformations and developing new materials for optical applications and eye protection as well as understanding excited state phenomena using photophysical methods.
Wade F. Petersen (ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3215-5560) obtained his PhD degree in Organic Chemistry in 2015, at the University of Cape Town, under the supervision of Professor Roger Hunter. He then spent two years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of York, UK, under the mentorship of Professor Richard Taylor before returning to Cape Town, where he is currently a Senior Lecturer. In 2019, he was a recipient of a Royal Society FLAIR (Future Leaders – African Independent Research) Fellowship and in 2022 he received an NRF (National Research Foundation, South Africa) Research Excellence Award for Emerging Researchers. His research interests lie in the field of green and sustainable chemistry with a focus in developing catalytic methods for the synthesis of biologically important nitrogen heterocycles.
Zbigniew Pianowski (ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2623-744X) received his PhD in chemistry in 2008 with Prof. N. Winssinger at ISIS ULP Strasbourg, working on artificial oligonucleotides. Then, he joined the group of Prof. D. Hilvert at the ETH Zürich as a Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow, working in the area of protein engineering. Since 2014 he has been an independent group leader at the KIT Karlsruhe, where he habilitated in 2022. He also served as a deputy professor of organic chemistry at the University of Heidelberg (2017–2019). His research interests are focused on applications of molecular photoswitches in smart materials and biological systems.
Antonio Poggi (ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9991-0463; Scopus Author ID: 7101947822) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry of the University of Pavia. His research activity moved from the coordination chemistry of multidentate ligands, to the design of supramolecular systems able to act as sensors, especially toward anions. He is currently involved in the research project MOCA. His research activity is documented in 74 papers in peer-reviewed journals and 5 chapters in books.
Matías I. Quindt was born in Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina and he obtained his MSc in Chemistry from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe in 2016. In 2017, he began his PhD studies at the University of Buenos Aires with funding form a doctoral scholarship of the Argentinean National Research Council (CONICET) under the supervision of Professor Dr Sergio M. Bonesi at the University of Buenos Aires. Matías I. Quindt obtained his PhD degree in Chemistry from the University of Buenos Aires in 2022. His main research interests are related to the study of the photo-Fries rearrangement reaction of steroidal compounds in homogeneous and heterogeneous media.
Jenny Schneider received her PhD in Chemistry in 2016 at the Leibniz Universität Hannover under the supervision of Prof. Detlef W. Bahnemann. After parental leave Dr Schneider joined the group of Prof. Gerald Meyer at the UNC at Chapel Hill as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2020 Jenny Schneider moved to Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where she is currently building her own research group at the Chair of Prof. Thomas Bein. Her research focuses on the elucidation of light-induced charge carrier kinetics and on the development of new organic and inorganic materials for photo(electro)catalytic water splitting and CO2 reduction.
João Sérgio Seixas de Melo (ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9708-5079) is the leader of the Photochemistry Group @ UC (www.photochemistry.pt) which is part of the Macromolecules, Colloids and Photochemistry research group of the Coimbra Chemistry Center (CCC). In 2016 Sérgio was awarded the Portuguese Chemical Society Award – Vicente Seabra Medal in recognition for the high quality, originality and autonomy of the research work developed in Chemistry in Portugal as an investigator of less than 40 years. Sérgio has an H-index of 49 (Google Scholar) with more than 7700 citations and >200 publications. Sérgio has been established at the University of Coimbra since 1993 where he managed to establish a very enthusiastic group on Photochemistry which is included in the Coimbra Laser lab (CLL) and the CCC, one of the top laboratories in the study of fast kinetic research in the world, and is part of the network LaserLab Europe, a consortium of leading organisations in laser-based research from 16 countries. The Photochemistry Group @ UC currently consists of 12 members: Sérgio, one Assistant Professor, two Invited Assistant Researchers, 5 PhD students and 3 Master’s students. Sérgio’s main scientific interests are associated with the molecules of colour and with molecular systems with aggregation induced emission, ESPT (including indigo and other molecules of natural origin), organic conjugated polymers and active materials for RFB.
Jayaraman Sivaguru (Siva) is the Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. He also holds the Antonia and Marshall Wilson Professor of Chemistry and serves as the Associate Director for the Center for Photochemical Sciences at Bowling Green State University. Prof. Sivaguru is well known for his contributions to the area of photochemical sciences. He has been recognized with numerous awards over the last decade. His research program studies both the fundamental and applied aspects of photochemistry.
Laura Spies received her MSc in Chemistry from LMU Munich in 2020 after completing her thesis under the joint supervision of Thomas Bein and Clare Grey at the University of Cambridge. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Physical Chemistry in the group of Prof. Bein. Her research interests focus on the investigation of charge carrier dynamics in covalent organic frameworks for photo(electro)catalysis.
Jorn Steen studied chemistry at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen where he conducted his research projects under the guidance of Prof. Wesley R. Browne. He then continued in the same group and obtained his PhD in 2022 on the photo- and redox chemistry of molecules in solution and on surfaces. Currently, he is a Wenner–Gren postdoctoral research fellow at Uppsala Universitet in the group of Dr Stefano Crespi, where he is able to satisfy his curiosity towards excited and redox state reactivity of organic compounds using experimental and computational methods.
Bryan F. Tambosco obtained his Diploma in Technological Studies (DUT) in 2014 from the University Institute of Technology of Orsay. In the same year, he began his graduate studies at the Superior School of Mineral and Organic Chemistry (ESCOM) in Compiègne. After two years, he moved back to Paris to complete his final year with a fellowship from the Gay-Lussac federation. He obtained a double diploma, one in chemical engineering from the Paris Centre Schools (ChimieParis – ESPCI – ENS) and a Master’s degree in organic chemistry from the University of Pierre and Marie-Curie (UPMC). He completed his final year with a Master’s internship under the supervision of Dr Zacharias Amara at the GBCM Laboratory at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (CNAM) working on the development of supported photocatalysts. Finally, he moved to the University of Nottingham to complete his PhD in photochemistry and chemical engineering under the supervision of Professor Mike George and Professor Martyn Poliakoff in collaboration with industry. In 2021, he won the 3rd edition of the Merck retrosynthesis challenge.
Van Tuan Trinh received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Chemistry from the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Afterwards, he joined the chemistry-for-healthcare enterprise Belyntic GmbH as a research intern for six months. Currently, he is a PhD student in the Vázquez laboratory at the University of Marburg.
Claudia Turro (ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3202-5870) received her BS with Honors in 1987 from Michigan State University. She worked with Daniel G. Nocera and George E. Leroi at Michigan State University and received her PhD in 1992. She was awarded a Jane Coffin Childs Fellowship to conduct postdoctoral work at Columbia University with Nicholas J. Turro, and has been a faculty member at The Ohio State University since 1996. She received the Early CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 1998 and the Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1999, and was named a 2010 Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and a 2012 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was elected President of the Inter-American Photochemical Society (I-APS; 2012–14) and Chair of the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry (2016). She received the 2014 I-APS Award in Photochemistry, the 2016 Morley Medal from the ACS and the 2016 Award from the Columbus Section of the ACS, and was elected as a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023. Since 2016, she has been serving as an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Dhanalakshmi Vadivel (ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4786-9427; Scopus Author ID: 56058944500) is a researcher in the Department of Chemistry of the University of Pavia (UNIPV), Italy. She obtained her PhD in Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry of Bharathiar University, India. During her PhD, she worked for two years at UNIPV as an Erasmus-Mundus fellow. From 2019, she worked as a post-doctoral fellow on the MATER project (Fondazione Cariplo, grant no. 2018-1765), PRIN (Project No. PRIN 20175TXJER BIO_CHEAPER) and radiation dosimetry for more than three years. Her wide research interest is in green and renewable materials.
Jacob Jan van der Wal studied chemistry at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen where he completed his MSc research under the guidance of Dr J. E. M. N. Klein. Currently, he is working as a PhD student at Uppsala Universitet in the group of Dr Stefano Crespi, where he works on organic photochemistry directed towards the synthesis of novel molecular switches and the development of new photoreactions.
Olalla Vázquez has been an Associate Professor in chemical biology at the University of Marburg since 2021. She received her PhD (2010) from the University of Santiago de Compostela under the supervision of Prof. Jose Luis Mascareñas and Prof. Eugenio Vázquez. Afterwards, she joined Prof. Oliver Seitz’s lab as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at Humboldt University. In 2014 she was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the University of Marburg to manage the new chemical biology division. Since then, she has pursued the complete understanding of biology at a molecular level with a chemical mind set.
Pu-Sheng Wang was born in 1988 in Anhui, China. He received a BS in chemistry from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2010. He went on to receive his PhD in organic chemistry from USTC in 2015 under the supervision of Professor Liu-Zhu Gong. Then he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at USTC, and he was promoted to associate professor in 2018, where his group’s work has focused on asymmetric catalysis and radical chemistry.
Yuedie Zhu was born in Jiangxi, China, in 1999. She obtained her BS in Chemistry from Central China Normal University in 2021. In July 2021, she joined University of Science and Technology of China under the supervision of Prof. Liu-Zhu Gong. Her current research focuses on photocatalytic asymmetric C–H functionalization.
