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Piotr Bałczewski studied chemistry at the Technical University of Łodź, Poland. His MSc and PhD theses (P/S/Si and cyclopentanoid chemistry) were with Prof. M. Mikołajczyk at the Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences (CM&MS PAS), Łódź. Doctoral studies at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, PAS, Warsaw then a postdoctoral period at Manchester University (UK) in alkaloid chemistry (Prof. J. A. Joule) led to habilitation and appointment as full professor at CM&MS PAS, Łódź and the Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa. He currently leads materials research groups at both institutions and is a coordinator of Organic Chemistry Division at CM&MS PAS, Łódź. He was vice- and 1st vice-president of the Polish Chemical Society (PCS), the PCS representative to the Journals Owners’ Boards (Wiley, Springer, RSC), honored as Chemistry Europe Fellow, Hanuš Medal, Silesian Scientific Award, Medal of the Commission of National Education, Knight’s Cross of the Order of Rebirth of Poland “Polonia Restituta”, Ministry of Education and Science Award for scientific achievements.
Goutam Brahmachari, PhD, DSc, is a full professor of organic chemistry at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. With more than 25 years of experience in teaching and research, he has so far produced 260 scientific publications, including original research papers, review articles, books, and invited book chapters in organic synthesis, green chemistry, and natural products. He has already authored/edited 26 books from the leading scientific publishers. He is the Founder Series Editor of the Elsevier Book Series ‘Natural Product Drug Discovery’. Prof. Brahmachari is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and a recipient of CRSI (Chemical Research Society of India) Bronze Medal 2021 (contributions to research in chemistry), Indian Chemical Society’s Dr Basudev Banerjee Memorial Award 2021 (Contribution in chemical sciences) INSA (Indian National Science Academy) Teachers Award 2019, Dr Kalam Best Teaching Faculty Award-2017, and Academic Brilliance Award-2015 (Excellence in Research). Prof. Brahmachari was featured in the World Ranking of the Top 2% Scientists (Organic Chemistry Category) in 2020, 2021, 2022 and the AD Scientific World Ranking of Scientists 2022, 2023.
Mário J. F. Calvete received his Industrial Chemistry diploma from University of Coimbra in 2000 and his PhD in Natural Sciences–Organic Chemistry in 2004, from Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen, Germany, with Prof. Dr h. c. Michael Hanack. After a two-year stay at Tuebingen as a postdoctoral fellow in Industry/University, he returned to Portugal for a postdoctoral stay at University of Aveiro. In 2010 he was appointed as Auxiliary Researcher at University of Coimbra and since 2019, he is Assistant Professor at this university. His current research interests are tetrapyrrolic macrocycle design and other heterocyclic ligands and their uses in theranostics and homogeneous/heterogeneous (photo)catalysis, particularly in environmental remediation technologies. He has published ca. 100 peer-reviewed papers, 2 books and 15 book chapters.
Rui M. B. Carrilho obtained his PhD diploma in Organic Chemistry in 2014 from University of Coimbra (Portugal), under guidance of Prof. M. M. Pereira and Prof. L. Kollár, focused on the development of tervalent phosphorus ligands and metal complexes for application in catalysis. From 2014 to 2018, he worked as a post-doc researcher in the pharmaceutical spin-off Luzitin SA and at University Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain). Since 2019, he has been an Auxiliary Researcher at University of Coimbra. His current research interests are focused on the synthesis of organometallic and related compounds for development of catalytic carbonylation and CO2 activation reactions. He is author of ca. 35 peer-reviewed papers and 12 book chapters.
Amit Chakraborty obtained his BSc degree from the Suri Vidyasagar College, Burdwan University, West Bengal, India, in 2007 and MSc degree in 2009 in inorganic chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India. He has completed his PhD at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India, under the supervision of Prof. V. Chandrasekhar in 2015. He briefly worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, India and as a National Post-doctoral Fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad. He is currently at the Department of Chemistry, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal. His research interests include molecular magnetism, transition metal/lanthanide complexes, design of unusual ligands and their applications in new molecular materials.
Vadapalli Chandrasekhar was born in Kolkata in November 1958. After his early education at the Osmania University, Hyderabad, he obtained his PhD degree in 1982 from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He did his postdoctoral work at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (1983–1986). After briefly working at the Research and Development section of the Indian Petrochemicals Corporation at Vadodara, as a Senior Research Officer, he joined the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1987 where he has been a full professor since 1995. He served as the Head of the Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur (2008–10), and as the Dean of Faculty Affairs, IIT Kanpur (2011–12). He also worked as the Director, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar (2014–17). Currently, he is a Distinguished Professor and Centre Director, at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India. His research interests are in the area of molecular materials, inorganic rings and polymers, main-group organometallics, and polynuclear metal assemblies. His research work is documented in 420+ publications. He has been a recipient of several national and international awards and fellowships. He received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award of the Council and Scientific Industrial Research, India, and the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. He is an elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, the National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, the Indian National Science Academy, and the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World, Trieste, Italy. He is on the editorial board of Dalton Transactions.
Giulia Fiorani is an Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. She earned a PhD in Chemical Sciences at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” in 2010, followed by several research associate assignments, including a 24 months Marie Curie IEF at ICIQ (Tarragona, Spain). Giulia’s current research interests focus on the development of novel renewable-based molecular synthons and materials, derived from terpenes and lignocellulosic biomass, employing sustainable catalytic processes for direct CO2 activation, tandem and/or one-pot processes, combined with continuous flow synthetic technologies.
György Keglevich graduated from the Technical University of Budapest in 1981 as a chemical engineer. He was awarded the “Doctor of Chemical Science” degree in 1994, in the subject of organophosphorus chemistry. He is a P-heterocyclic chemist. He also deals with environmentally friendly chemistry: MW chemistry, phase transfer catalysis and the development of new catalysts. He is the author or co-author of ca. 650 papers (the majority of which appeared in international journals). He has written around 40 book chapters and around 60 review articles. His two books are: OPC – Novel developments, and Milestones in MW chemistry. He is the member of the Editorial Board of Molecules (Green chemical Section), Green Processing and Syntheses, Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon, and the Related Elements and Current Microwave Chemistry. He is Associate Editor for Heteroatom Chemistry, Letters in Drug Design and Discovery, Current Organic Synthesis and Letters in Organic Chemistry, and Editor-in-Chief for Current Organic Chemistry, Current Green Chemistry, as well as Symmetry (Chemical Section). He is the member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Phosphorus Chemistry, and arranged ICPC 22 in Budapest/Hungary in 2018.
Krzysztof Owsianik graduated in chemistry at the University of Łódź. The international co-tutelle PhD thesis (organometallic/phosphorus chemistry) was under the guidance of Prof. A. Skowrońska at the Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies (CMMS), Polish Academy of Sciences in Poland and Prof. J.-P. Majoral at the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination (LCC) CNRS in France. During his postdoctoral stay at the LCC in Toulouse (Prof. R. Chauvin) he conducted research on phosphorus-boron containing compounds. He currently works in the Functional Materials Synthesis Group, CMMS, and continues his interest in organophosphorus chemistry which include polycyclic-aromatic hydrocarbons, flow chemistry and reactivity of sterically hindered compounds. He was honored as award of the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Conference of Rectors of Public Universities in Łódź and 3rd place in the “Molecules 2020 Best Paper Award for Anniversary Special Issues” competition.
Romana Pajkert received her PhD in organic chemistry in 2008 from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland) under the supervision of Professor Henryk Koroniak. She then carried out postdoctoral studies at the University in Bremen (Germany) in Professor Gerd-Volker Röschenthaler’s group. Starting from 2009, she continued researches at the Constructor University in Bremen (previously called Jacobs University). Her major current research interests are focused on the fluorine and phosphorus chemistry, organometallic chemistry, synthesis of biologically active compounds, preparation of hypervalent phosphorus derivatives and as well as fluorinated monomers.
Mariette M. Pereira is currently a Full Professor in Organic Chemistry at University of Coimbra (Portugal). She obtained her PhD in Organic Chemistry in 1992 at University of Coimbra and worked as Fellow Assistant at Universities of Liverpool in 1993 and Autónoma de Barcelona in 1998. She was Director of the Chemistry Research Laboratory of pharmaceutical spin-off Luzitin SA, until 2015. Her research interests are focused on the synthesis of phosphorous based chiral ligands and metal complexes for development of catalysts for carbonylation tandem reactions. She is also strongly engaged on the synthesis of tetrapyrrolic macrocycle-based photosensitizers for applications on photodynamic therapy of cancer and photoinactivation of microorganisms. She published ca. 200 peer-reviewed papers, 20 books/book chapters and she is inventor of 6 WO patents. She win the Prix Tremplin Mariano Gago, 2022, from Portugal and Paris Academy of Science, and Hungary Academy of Science Distinguished Guest Scientist fellowship, 2023.
Alvise Perosa earned his PhD in Chemistry from Case Western Reserve University in 1996 and is currently Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at Ca’ Foscari University Venice. He was Fulbright Fellow at Case Western Reserve University, Endeavour Research Fellow at the University of Sydney and is currently a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Alvise sits on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Green Chemistry (RSC) and ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering (ACS). Alvise’s interests include research, teaching, and outreach in green chemistry with specific focus on chemicals from renewable resources, green chemicals from carbon dioxide, ionic liquids, catalysis, supercritical fluids and multiphase reaction systems.
Gerd-Volker Röschenthaler received his Dr. rer. nat. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken (Germany) in 1971. In 1972 he moved to the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany) to work with Professor Reinhard Schmutzler where he got his his “Habilitation” (Dr. rer. nat. habil.) in 1982. During this time he spent several months as a visiting scientist with Professor Alan MacDiarmid, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (USA). In 1978 he became Professor at the University of Bremen (Germany) and in 2009 Professor of Chemistry at Jacobs University Bremen. He served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City (USA), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), Haifa (Israel). His main research interests are focused on organofluorine and organophosphorus chemistry. In 2012 he was awarded the Honorary Fellowship of the Technion, where he is serving as a member of the Board of Governors. Since 2016 he is Concurrent Professor at the University of Nanjing, Nanjing (China). He chaired the 18th Int. Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry 2006 in Bremen and the Bremen Fluorine Days 2016.
Maurizio Selva is a Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy). Since the beginning of his academic career in the early 90s, his main research interests focused on the implementation of eco-friendly organic syntheses based on clean reagents, catalysts, and solvents. More specifically, the development of green catalytic techniques for the upgrading of bio-based platform chemicals using dense CO2 and dialkylcarbonate sand multiphase systems assisted by ionic liquids are among the current topics of Prof. Selva’s research.
