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

 

Hiroshi Kitagawa finished his Ph.D course in 1991 and received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 1992. He moved to Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) as assistant professor in 1991, Japan Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (JAIST) as assistant professor in 1994, and University of Tsukuba as associate professor in 2000. He moved to Kyushu University as professor in 2003. In 2009, he returned back to the original laboratory at Kyoto University. He held visiting appointments at Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory (Prof. Peter Day), Royal Institution of Great Britain (1993-1994). He was a chair of the 5th Chemical Sciences and Society Summit (CS3), 2013. He is now Deputy Executive-Vice President for Research at Kyoto University. His research fields are solid-state chemistry, coordination chemistry, nano-science, low-dimensional electron system, and molecule-based conductors. He published more than 300 original papers. He was awarded The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work (2010), Inoue Prize for Science (2011), Marco Polo della Scienza Italiana (2013), and The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2016).

Talk Title - Elements Strategy for New Nano-Materials

Shigeyuki Masaoka received his Ph.D. degree in 2004 from Kyoto University under the guidance of Prof. Susumu Kitagawa. He spent a postdoctoral year in the group of Prof. Matthew J. Rosseinsky at the University of Liverpool in 2004–2005. In 2005, he began an academic career as a research associate in the group of Prof. Ken Sakai at Kyushu University. In 2009, he was selected as a researcher of PRESTO, JST. In 2011, he moved to the Institute for Molecular Science as an associate professor. His research interests include the development of molecular catalysts for synthetic chemical fuel production powered by sunlight or electricity.

Talk Title - ​Molecular Catalysts Designed for Water Oxidation

Masahiro Miura is a distinguished professor of the Department of Applied Chemistry, Osaka University of Japan. He studied chemistry at Osaka University and received his Ph.D. degree in 1983 under the guidance of Prof. S. Kusabayashi and Prof. M. Nojima. After working in chemical industry for one and a half years, he started his academic career as assistant professor at Osaka University. He was promoted to associate professor in 1994 and to full professor in 2005. He also worked as a Humboldt fellow at Karlsruhe University of Germany with Prof. K. Griesbaum in 1990-1991. His current research interests include transition-metal catalysis including C-H activation and the synthesis of functional molecules, especially new i-conjugated aromatic substances. He was awarded Thomson Reuters Research Front Award (2012), The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work (2013), Green Sustainable Chemistry Award of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2014), Humboldt Research Award (2015), and The Japan Petroleum Institute Award (2016).

Talk Title - ​Transition-metal-catalyzed direct aromatic coupling

Y.S. received his PhD from Kyoto University in 1985. After the JSPS fellowship for 2 years, he moved to RIKEN in Wako campus as a scientific researcher. In 1991, he jointed Prof. Steve Boxer’s Group in Stanford University as a visiting scientist and stayed there for 1 year.  When the SPring-8 was opened for public in 1997, he moved from the Wako to the Harima campus.  In 2000, he was appointed as a chief scientist of RIKEN, and started to manage his research group (Biometal Science Laboratory) in RIKEN SPring-8 Center (RSC).  From 1999, he has joined the joint program of the graduate school between RSC and University of Hyogo as a visiting professor, and in 2015, was appointed as a professor for managing Laboratory of Cellular Regulation in Graduate School of Life Science, University of Hyogo.  His research interest is “metals in Biology”, so he has been studying chemical action of metals, especially iron (Fe), on the basis of molecular structures of the related proteins.

Talk Title - ​NO dynamics in Biology: its generation and decomposition

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

Takashi Uemura received his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Yoshiki Chujo at Department of Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University in 2002.  He then joined as an assistant professor in Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry in Kyoto University, and has been an associate professor since 2010.  He has been also a research director for a CREST program of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) since 2013.  He was awarded The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists (2010), Kao Research Initiative Award (2014), and JSPS Prize (2016). His research interest is preparation of synergistic nanohybrids between coordination compounds and polymeric materials, in particular, polymer chemistry in confined nanospaces.

Talk Title - ​Polymer Chemistry in MOFs

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

Talk Title - ​Unique Properties of Azaphenalene-based Coordination Materials