The 3rd Organic Chemistry Frontiers International Symposium

Ed Anderson completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford, and his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge with Professor Andrew Holmes. He carried out postdoctoral work firstly with Professor Erik Sorensen at the Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla), and then with Professor Ian Paterson in Cambridge. He was appointed at Oxford as an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow in 2007, and as a University Lecturer at Jesus College, Oxford in 2009. Ed's research interests span a broad spectrum of organic chemistry, from total synthesis of natural products, through catalysis and mechanistic investigations, to biosynthesis and DNA chemistry.

Guy Bertrand was educated in France, and move to UC Riverside in 2001 before joining the University of California San Diego in 2012. He is Distinguished Professor and Director of the UCSD/CNRS Joint Research Chemistry Laboratory. He is a member of the French Academy of Technology (2000), the Academia Europaea (2002), the European Academy of Sciences (2003), the French Academy of Sciences (2004), and is a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Sciences (2006). He has recently received the Sir Ronald Nyholm Medal of the RSC (2009), the Grand Prix Le Bel of the French Chemical Society (2010), and the ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry (2014). He is one the Associate Editors of Chemical reviews.

Steve Davies received his BA in 1973 and DPhil in 1975 from the University of Oxford. After a stint at the CNRS at Gif-sur-Yvette, he returned to Oxford in 1980 to a University Lectureship and then Professorship. In February 2006 he was appointed as the Waynflete Professor of Organic Chemistry and in 2006-2011 he was Chairman of Chemistry. He has published 568 research papers, and his group has conducted investigations concerned with a huge array of topics, varying from organometallic chemistry and asymmetric synthesis to medicinal chemistry, and combinatorial synthesis. He has a number of multidisciplinary research collaborations that multiplex chemistry, pharmacology and biology including the development of  a selective antibiotic and a novel therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. He has been the recipient of a variety of RSC awards the most recent being the Perkin Medal in 2011. He has founded a number of successful companies including, Oxford Asymmetry Int. Plc, Summit Therapeutics, Plc, Inc. and most recently Oxstem Limited in the area of stem cells in regenerative medicine

Stuart Conway is a Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the E. P. Abraham Cephalosporin Fellow in Organic Chemistry at St Hugh's College, Oxford. He studied Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Warwick before undertaking PhD studies with Professor David Jane in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Bristol. Stuart completed post-doctoral studies with Professor Andrew Holmes FRS at the University of Cambridge working on the synthesis of inositol polyphosphates. In 2003, he was appointed as a Lecturer in Bioorganic Chemistry at the University of St Andrews, in 2008 was appointed as an Associate Professor at Oxford, and in October 2014 he was promoted to Full Professor. Between March and August 2013 Stuart was a Visiting Associate at the California Institute of Technology, hosted by Professor Bob Grubbs and Professor Dianne Newman. Stuart's research focuses on the development of molecular tools to enable the study of biological systems. This work has been recognised by the award of the 2012 Prize for a Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia by the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry, and the 2016 Lectureship of the Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Section of the RSC

Louis Fensterbank was born in Poitiers in 1967 and raised in Tours. While graduating from the Ecole Superieure de Chimie Industrielle de Lyon (ESCIL) in 1990, he joined the team of Scott Sieburth at SUNY Stony Brook, worked on silicon-tethered reactions and obtained his Ph.D. in 1993. After a temporary lecturer position at the Université Pierre & Marie Curie (UPMC) in 1994, he was appointed by the CNRS in 1995 as a Chargé de Recherche in Max Malacria’s team. In 2004, he obtained a professorship position at UPMC and in 2008, he was nominated junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. In 2009, he was a Visiting Scientist at the Australian National University, Canberra. He was awarded the Clavel Lespiau Prize from the French Academy of Sciences in 2014. His research interests concern the discovery of new molecular transformations relying on radical or organometallic processes and their applications to the synthesis of substrates with relevant properties (natural products, probes, ligands…).  He has co-authored more than 175 publications

Véronique Gouverneur secured a PhD in chemistry at the Université Catholique de Louvain (LLN, Belgium), under the supervision of Prof. L.Ghosez. In 1992, she moved to a postdoctoral position with Prof. R. Lerner at the Scripps Research Institute (California, USA). She then accepted a position of Maîre de Conférence at the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg (France). She worked with Dr C. Mioskowski and was Associate Member of the ISIS Institute directed by Prof. J-M. Lehn during this period. She started her independent research career as a member of the chemistry faculty at the University of Oxford in 1998. Her research aims at developing new approaches to address long-standing problems in the synthesis of fluorinated analogues of natural products, pharmaceutical drugs and molecular [18F]labelled probes for PET imaging. Since her appointment in Oxford, she holds a tutorial fellowship at Merton College Oxford where she teaches organic chemistry. She is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford since 2008 and her research published in > 160 peer-reviewed publications and presented by invitation at > 120 (inter)national conferences was recognised by numerous awards. She was the Blaise Pascal Chair (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris/Commissariat d’ Energie Atomique de Saclay/Paris Sud) (2012-2014) and is currently holding a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2013-2018) and Tetrahedron Chair 2016

Chulbom Lee received his B.S. (1988) and M.S. (1990) degrees in chemistry from Seoul National University, where his advisor was Professor Eun Lee. Following a period of military service, he proceeded to Stanford University and obtained his Ph.D. under the direction of Professor Barry M. Trost in 1998. He then moved to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as a U.S. Army Cancer Research Postdoctoral Fellow. After his postdoctoral study with Professor Samuel J. Danishefsky in 2001, he joined the faculty of Princeton University as assistant professor of chemistry. In 2008, he returned to his alma mater, SNU, to take a position at the Department of Chemistry. He is currently the Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Chair of the Department, while serving as SNU Faculty Senator. He was Vice President of the Korean Society of Organic Synthesis (2012) and Korean Chemical Society (2014). His research is focused on the development of new methods and strategies for organic synthesis. In particular, his group has been engaged in the design, implementation and mechanistic elucidation of novel reactions that occur through transition metal-mediated catalysis. His research is also concerned with the synthesis of natural products possessing complex molecular architecture and significant biological activities

Shengming Ma was born in 1965 in Zhejiang, China. He received his PhD from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) and became an assistant professor there in 1991. After postdoctoral research at the ETH with Prof. Venanzi and Purdue University with Prof. Negishi, he returned to SIOC in 1997. From February 2003 to September 2007, he was jointly appointed by SIOC and Zhejiang University (ZJU). In October 2007, he moved to East China Normal University to help build the research program in organic chemistry. Currently he is also a research professor at SIOC and Qiu Shi Adjunct Professor at ZJU. He received the Mr. & Mrs. Sun Chan Memorial Award in Organic Chemistry (2004), OMCOS Springer Award (2005), National Award for Research in Natural Science in China (Second-Class, 2006), and Natural Science Awards of Shanghai (First-Class, 2010). He is a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2005~) and TWAS (2008~)

Cristina Nevado was born in Madrid in 1977. She studied Chemistry at the Autónoma University of Madrid and graduated in 2000. In October 2004 she received her PhD in Organic Chemisty at the same university working with Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren in the cyclization of 1,6-enynes catalyzed by late transition metals. In December 2006 she joined the lab of Prof. Alois Fürstner as a post-doc at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (Germany) where she was part of the team who conquered the first total synthesis of Iejimalide B. In May 2007 she joined the Organic Chemistry Institute of the University of Zurich as an Assistant Professor. In February 2013 she was promoted to Full Professor

Zhangjie Shi, Professor in Chemistry from Peking University, is now serving as an Editorial Board member of Organic Chemistry Frontiers. He received a BS degree in 1996 from the Department of Chemistry, East China Normal University. He further joined Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIOC, CAS) and obtained his PhD degree (2001) under the supervision of Professor Shengming Ma. He then moved to Harvard University as a postdoctoral researcher with Professor Gregory Verdine and later as a research associate with Professor Chuan He at the University of Chicago. In 2004, he joined the faculty of College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Peking University and was promoted to full professor in 2008. He has received many international awards, including the Mr. and Mrs. Sun Chan Memorial Award in 2014, OMCOS Award in 2013, and Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award in 2011 where he was the inaugural Asian recipient.
Dr. Shi was recognized for his seminal contribution in organometallic chemistry and catalysis, especially in the field of the activation of “inert” bonds and small molecules. So far, he has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers which have been cited over 7,100 times by others

Frank Würthner received his education in Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart (Germany, PhD degree in 1993). He carried out postdoctoral research at MIT in Cambridge/MA, Jr. and spent two years in the BASF central research laboratories, followed by the Habilitation in Organic Chemistry at the University of Ulm. Since 2002, he is professor at the University of Würzburg, where he has served as head of the Institute of Organic Chemistry, dean of the Chemistry Department and founding director of the Center for Nanosystems Chemistry. His main research interests include the synthesis of pi-conjugated molecules and functional dyes, their application in organic electronics, photonics and photovoltaics, the construction of complex supramolecular architectures composed of pi -scaffolds, the mechanistic elucidation of self-assembly processes, and the investigation of light-induced processes in dye-based nanosystems. He has published more than 300 papers and is among the most highly cited chemists of the last decade