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

 

Akihiko Kudo was born in Tokyo. He received his early education at Tokyo University of Science obtaining a B.S. degree in 1983 and his Ph.D. degree in 1988 from Tokyo Institute of Technology. After one and half year as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Texas in Austin, he became a Research Associate at the Tokyo Institute of Technology until 1995. He then joined the Tokyo University of Science as a Lecturer before he became Associate Professor in 1998 and Full Professor in 2003. He received the Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists in 1990, the award of Encouragement of Research and Development from Catalysis Society of Japan in 2001, the award of Japanese Photochemical Association in 2009, and the 10th Green and Sustainable Chemistry Award awarded by the Ministry of Environment in 2011.

Research Interests
Artificial Photosynthesis, Photocatalyst, Photoelectrochemistry, Water splitting, Material Science, CO2 fixation

Talk Title - ​Inorganic materials for photocatalytic water splitting and CO2 reduction

Tetsuro Murahashi (b. 1973) is a Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology.  He received his B.Sc (1995) and Ph.D. (1999) from Osaka University under the guidance of Prof. Hideo Kurosawa.  He joined the faculty of Osaka University in 1999.  He carried out the JSPS research abroad program in the group of Prof. Christopher C. Cummins at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003-2005.  In 2012, he was appointed Professor at Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki.  In 2015, he was appointed Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology.  His current research interest is in synthetic inorganic and organometallic chemistry, catalysis, and materials science.  He received several awards including The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists, The Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry Award for Young Chemists, The Young Scientist Prize of MEXT-Japan, and RSC Dalton Asian Lectureship Award. 

Talk Tilte - ​Chemistry of Sandwich Clusters

Masayuki Nihei was born in 1974 in Tokyo. He received his B.S. (1997) from Keio University, and his M.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2002) from the University of Tokyo. His Ph.D. studies, conducted under the supervision of Prof. Hiroshi Nishihara, focused on the creation of photo- and proton-responsive azo-conjugated metalladithiolenes. In 2002 he joined Prof. H. Oshio’s group at the University of Tsukuba as an assistant researcher studying the syntheses and magnetic properties of external stimuli-responsive metal complexes. Working in the Oshio lab, he became a research associate in December 2002, assistant professor in 2005 and associate professor in 2010. His current research centres upon the generation of multinuclear cyanide bridged clusters and the development of their properties as multi-bistable switchable molecules.

Talk Title - ​Multi-stability based on intramolecular electron transfers

Hiroshi Nishihara received his B. Sc. degree in 1977, M. Sc. in 1979 and D. Sc. in 1982 from The University of Tokyo.  He was appointed research associate of Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology at Keio University in 1982, and he was promoted lecturer in 1990, and associate professor in 1992. Since 1996, he has been a professor of Department of Chemistry, School of Science at The University of Tokyo. He also worked as a visiting research associate in the Prof. Royce W. Murray’s group of Department of Chemistry at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1987-1989), and as a researcher of PRESTO, JRDC (1992-1996).  He has received Professorship of University of Bordeaux I (France) in 2005, that of University of Strasbourg (France) in 2009, and Distinguished Lectureship of Hong Kong Baptist University in 2012.

He received Young Scholar’s Lectureship, The Chemical Society of Japan in 1994, The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work in 2003, Docteur Honoris Causa from University of Bordeaux in 2011, Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2014, Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry Award in 2015, and Chemical Society Japan Award in 2016. He was the leader of a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “The Coordination Programming –Science of Super-molecular Structure and Creation of Chemical Elements” (area abbr.: Coordination program) from 2009 to 2014, and that of JST CREST project “Creation of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid 2D Materials, Coordination Nanosheets, with Innovative Electronic, Photonic, and Chemical Functions” from 2015 to 2021.

Talk title - ​Interfacial synthesis of coordination nanosheets and their functions

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

Yusuke Tamaki received his B.S. in 2008, M.S. in 2010 and Ph.D. in 2013 from Tokyo Institute of Technology. His Ph.D. study was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Osamu Ishitani. After completing his Ph.D., he started to work as a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Thomas J. Meyer at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After 19 months as a postdoctoral fellow, he became an assistant professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2014. He received Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists in 2014.

Talk Title - ​Photocatalytic CO2 reduction using multinuclear metal complexes

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

Michito Yoshizawa received his BS from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in 1997, MS from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1999, and PhD from Nagoya University in 2002. He moved to The University of Tokyo as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow and became Assistant Professor in 2003. In 2008, he became Associate Professor at the Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology. His research interests focus on the development of novel functions within polyaromatic nanospace.

Talk Title - ​Polyaromatic-Shelled Coordination Capsules Displaying Unique Host-Guest Interactions