Electrochemistry at Nano-interfaces Faraday Discussion

Dr. Zuzanna S. Siwy received her Ph.D. in 1997 from the Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland, and habilitation in 2004. From 2000–2003 she was a Fellow of the Foundation for Polish Science, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Institute for Heavy Ions Research (GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany. After conducting postdoctoral research at the University of Florida, Gainesville, in July 2005, Dr. Siwy joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. In 2007, she became the Fellow of the Alfred von Sloan Foundation. In 2009, Dr. Siwy was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers as well as the Bessel Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Her current research interests focus on using synthetic nanopores as templates for biomimetic channels as well as ionic diodes and ionic transistors.

Michael V. Mirkin was born in Alma-Ata, former USSR.  He received his Ph. D. in electrochemistry (1987) from Kazakh State University.  He did his postdoctoral research at The University of Texas at Austin from 1990 to 1993 and then joined the faculty of Queens College - City University of New York where he currently is a Professor of Chemistry.  He had been an Invited Visiting Professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris in 2013.
 
His professional interests include interfacial charge-transfer processes, electrochemical kinetics and catalysis, bioelectrochemistry, and nanoelectrochemistry.  He has published more than 140 journal articles and chapters (h-index 50 Web of Science; 56 Google Scholar).  He has been involved in theoretical and experimental development of scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM), applied this method to study various chemical structures and processes on the nanoscale, and co-edited the first monograph on SECM (second edition, 2012) and a monograph on nanoelectrochemistry (2015).

Jingyuan Chen was born in 1957 and raised in Xiamen. She was a “Red Small Soldier”, then became a farmer. She is luckily, was passed the first university entrance exams after the Cultural Revolution in 1977 and graduation from Tianjin University of Science and Technology. She received her PhD degree from University of Fukui in 1996, supervised by Prof. Koichi Aoki. Since then she has set the life aiming to solving “fundamental subjects of basic electrochemistry” and defined the work focus on physics of interfacial phenomena.

In 1996-1998, she was employed as a senior researcher in MAEDA KOSEN Company Limited. In 1998 she moved to Kanazawa University, working as a lecturer at school of Faculty of Science. In 2000-2001 she worked as a visiting scholar at Henry White's laboratory in University of Utah. Then she return to Japan, was employed as an associate professor at Aoki’s laboratory in University of Fukui and was appointed as a full professor of Applied Physics in 2017. During these activities, she has educated and supervised thirty-one PhD students from Japan, China, Thailand and other countries and areas.

Richard M. Crooks received a B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois and completed his doctoral studies at The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin).  After a postdoc at MIT, he started his independent career in 1989 as an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of New Mexico.  He moved to Texas A&M University in 1993 and then back to UT-Austin in 2005 where he is presently the Robert A. Welch Chair in Materials Chemistry.  His interests include synthesis, characterization, and electrocatalytic properties of nanoparticles, microelectrochemical sensors, and bioelectrochemistry.  He has published >300 peer-reviewed research papers and is the recipient of several awards including the Carl Wagner Memorial Award of the Electrochemical Society, the American Chemical Society Electrochemistry Award, the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry C. N. Reilley Award, the Pittsburg Award in Analytical Chemistry, and the Faraday Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry.  In addition to his scientific and pedagogical interests, he is a writer of detective fiction, runner, and rancher.

Andrew Ewing received his BS degree from St. Lawrence University and a PhD from Indiana University. After a postdoc at the University of North Carolina he joined the faculty at Penn State University for 25 years. He is now Professor at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and Honorary Professor at both Nanjing University of Science and Technology and Beijing University of Science and Technology. He is a Knut and Alice Wallenberg Scholar (2011-2022), an elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, class 4 (chemistry), Nobel Class (2012) and the Gothenburg Academy of Arts and Sciences (2013).
 
Focusing on the neuronal process of exocytosis, Ewing and his group have pioneered small-volume chemical measurements at single cells, electrochemical detection for capillary electrophoresis, novel approaches for electrochemical imaging of single cells, and new electrochemical strategies to both measure release during exocytosis and the contents of individual nanometer vesicles in cells. They also pioneered the development and application of mass spectrometry imaging for subcellular and neurochemical analysis. Ewing and his group, and the group of Christian Amatore in France, have pioneered the discovery of partial release during the majority of exocytosis events leading to new models of synaptic plasticity.
 
Ewing has recently received the Charles N Reilley Award from the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry (2013), the American Chemical Society Award in Electrochemistry (2013), the Norblad-Ekstrand Medal of the Swedish Chemical Society (2014), the SACP Analytical Chemistry Award (2015), and the International Association of Advanced Materials European Advanced Materials Award (2017).

Marc Koper is Professor of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He received his PhD degree (1994) from Utrecht University (The Netherlands) in the field of electrochemistry. He was an EU Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ulm (Germany) and a Fellow of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) at Eindhoven University of Technology, before moving to Leiden University in 2005. His main research interests are in fundamental aspects of electrocatalysis, theoretical electrochemistry, and electrochemical surface science. He was awarded with the Faraday Medal of the RSC in 2017.

Katherine A. (Kallie) Willets is the Robert L. Smith Early Career Professor in the department of chemistry at Temple University. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2005, working in the lab of W.E. Moerner, where she fostered her interest in single molecule imaging as a tool to reveal local heterogeneity. From there she conducted postdoctoral research with Richard Van Duyne at Northwestern University from 2005–2007, developing her interests in plasmonic nanostructures. After beginning her career at the University of Texas at Austin in 2007, where she was promoted to associate professor in 2014, she moved to Temple University in 2015 where her lab uses optical techniques to understand how nanoscale features of plasmonic nanostructures impact ligand binding, surface-enhanced Raman scattering, and electrochemical reactions at surfaces.