Inorganic Chemistry Symposium

Polly L Arnold holds the Crum Brown Chair of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. She holds degrees from Oxford and Sussex, and was a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow at MIT prior to returning to a lectureship in the UK in 1999. Her research is focused on exploratory synthetic chemistry. 

Polly has received a variety of awards and prizes including the Seaborg Lectureship 2015 (UC Berkeley, USA) and the RSC Corday Morgan prize, 2012. Supported by the Royal Society's 2012 Rosalind Franklin award, Polly also made 'A Chemical Imbalance', a call to action for simple changes to achieve equality of opportunity in science. www.chemicalimbalance.co.uk.

Talk Title - ​Architectural control of f-block organometallics for small molecule activation

I obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Stanford University. I attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley where I studied under the guidance of Prof. Kenneth N. Raymond. After completing my Ph.D. at U.C. Berkeley, I moved to Boston, to perform postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Stephen J. Lippard at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After about two and a half years in Boston I moved to my present position at the University of California, San Diego.  I served as Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at U.C. San Diego from July 2012-2015.  My hobbies include recreational sports, local and national politics, and classic automobiles.

Talk Title - ​Where the rubber meets the road - polyMOFs


 

Shinya Hayami is a professor of Inorganic Chemistry in Kumamoto University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1997 from Kyushu University under the direction of Professor Yonezo Maeda. Following two post-doctoral stints in the laboratories of Professor Katsuya Inoue (Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), April 1998– March 1999) and Professor Osamu Sato (Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology (KAST), April 1999 – September 2000), he joined to the Department of Chemistry in Kyushu University as an Assistant Professor in October 2000 and the Department of Chemistry in Hiroshima University as an Associate Professor in January 2007. As a professor he joined at Kumamoto University in April 2009. His research interests include the study of spin-crossover and LIESST compounds, advanced soft materials, and graphene hybrids.

Talk Title - ​Graphene Oxide and Reduced Graphene Oxide Hybrids

Masatoshi Ishida received his Ph.D degree from Kyushu University, Japan in 2010 under the supervision of Prof. Yoshinori Naruta. After working as a research fellow in IMCE, Kyushu University, he moved to Yonsei University (Korea) as a WCU postdoctoral research fellow and worked with Profs. Jonathan L. Sessler and Dongho Kim. In 2013, he started an academic carrier and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Molecular Systems (CMS), Kyushu University. His current research interests are synthetic chemistry and coordination chemistry of novel large π-conjugated porphyrinoids.

Talk Title - Coordination Chemistry of N-Confused Expanded Porphyrinoids Toward Near-IR Optical Materials
 

Tomomi Koshiyama received her Ph.D. degree from Nagoya University, Japan in 2007.  After working as a postdoctoral fellow at Nagoya University and at WPI-iCeMS, Kyoto University, she became an assistant professor at Kyushu University in 2010.  Her current research interests include molecular design and functionalization of biomolecules such as vesicles and proteins using metal complexes.

Talk Title - ​Design of Functional Composites based on Liposome and Metal Complex



 

Seiji Ogo received his PhD from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies in 1996. After working in the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) at Okazaki (1996–2001), Nagoya University (2001–2002), and Osaka University (2002–2005), in 2005 he joined Kyushu University as a full professor of Kyushu University. He was a leader of the CREST (Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology) project of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (2008–2013). He is currently a leader of the Specially Promoted Research of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). His research interests are in the activation of H2, O2, CH4, N2, CO2, and H2O in water. He received the Japan Society for the 5th Promotion of Science (JSPS) Prizes in 2008, the 30th Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) Award for Creative Work in 2012, and Prize for Science and Technology, the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2013.

Talk Title - ​H2 and O2 activation

Toshikazu Ono was born in Oita, Japan in 1983.
He earned his MS degree in 2007 from Kyushu University under the guidance of Prof. Seiji Shinkai and PhD in 2010 from Kyushu University under the guidance of Prof. Kazuki Sada, where he studied functional polymeric materials and supramolecular chemistry.
He then moved to Stanford University as a postdoc in Prof. Eric T. Kool group (April 2010 – December 2011) and Osaka University as a 2nd postdoc in Prof. Takashi Hayashi group (January 2012 – August 2012), where he studied synthetic biology, chemical biology and bioinorganic chemistry. He was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Kyushu University from August 2012 in Prof. Yoshio Hisaeda group.
His is currently focused on the development of functional soft-matters, photofunction crystalline materials and bio-inspired catalytic systems based on supramolecular chemistry and coordination chemistry.
 
Talk Title -
Crystal Engineering of Multicomponent Molecular Puzzles for Photofunction Design

Ken Sakai received his B.S. (1987), M.S. (1989), and Ph.D.(1993) from Waseda University working on synthesis, structures, and catalysis of multinuclear mixed-valent platinum(II,III) complexes under supervision of Prof. Kazuko Matsumoto. He extended his works in this area as an assistant professor at Seikei University during 1991-1999, and as an associate professor at Tokyo University of Science during 1999-2004. Then he has been a full professor at Kyushu University since 2004. He was also appointed as a principal investigator for Kyushu University International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I2CNER) since 2012.

His interests involve study leading to improved understanding of various important reactions and catalytic processes together with works aiming at the development of hybrid materials as artificial photosynthetic nanoreactors for solar fuel generation and carbon dioxide reduction. His recent studies also involve studies on metalorganic-inorganic hybrid materials towards applications in solar energy conversion and storage. 

Talk Title - ​Molecular Catalysts and Photocatalysts towards Solar Water Splitting Reactions

Dr Andrew Shore has been Editor of Dalton Transactions since 2015, having worked on the journal since he joined the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2010. He started as a Publishing Editor handling the peer review, editing, proof-reading and issue make-up. In 2012, he became the Editorial Production Manager for the journal, overseeing the peer review process, ensuring the editors provided quick and fair decisions, coordinating the team of external Associate Editors and guaranteeing timely publication of articles online and in issues. He has a PhD in Analytical Geochemistry from University of Leicester, UK and BSc in Environmental Sciences from University of East Anglia, UK. 

His presentation will provide an overview on how to get your research published in high quality scientific journals and share hints and tips to help you through the publication process involved at the Royal Society of Chemistry. He will also talk about publication ethics, how you can promote your own work and how the RSC is supporting open access. At the end of the presentation there will be an open Q & A “Ask the Editor” session.

Talk Title - ​Publishing your research in high impact journals
 

Li-Zhu Wu received her B.S. degree in chemistry from Lanzhou University in 1990, and got her Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Photographic Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the supervision of Professor Chen-Ho Tung in 1995. From 1995−1998, she worked at the Institute of Photographic Chemistry as an associate professor. After a postdoctoral stay (1997−1998) at the University of Hong Kong working with Professor Chi-Ming Che, she returned to the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as a full professor. Her research interests are focused on photochemical conversion, including artificial photosynthesis, visible light catalysis for organic transformation, and photoinduced electron transfer, energy transfer and chemical reactions in supramolecular systems.

Talk Title - ​Artificial Photosynthetic Systems for Chemical Transformation
 

Nobuhiro Yanai received his PhD degrees from Kyoto University in 2011 with Prof. Susumu Kitagawa and Dr. Takashi Uemura on polymer properties in MOFs. He was a postdoctoral research fellow with Prof. Steve Granick at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, working on self-assembly of MOF colloids. In 2012, he became an assistant professor at Kyushu University, where he has been an associate professor since 2015. Since 2014, he has also been a researcher of PRESTO program in JST. His current research interests is in materials chemistry for photon upconversion and new triplet science.

Talk Title - ​Photon Upconversion based on Triplet Energy Migration