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Dr. Ilich A. Ibarra completed his BSc in chemistry at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM, Mexico) in 2005. In 2006 he worked at the Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares (ININ, Mexico) in collaboration with the Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales (UNAM, Mexico) under the supervision of Prof. Silvia Bulbulian, Prof. Enrique Lima and Prof. Pedro Bosch. Later, in 2010 he obtained his PhD in Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Martin Schröder at The University of Nottingham (UK). He then took a postdoctoral position, 2010-2012, at The University of Texas at Austin (USA) where he worked under the supervision Prof. Simon Humphrey. In 2013, he was awarded as a Wenner-Gren researcher at Stockholm University (Sweden) under the supervision of Prof. Xiaodong Zou. In 2014, he moved to UNAM (Institute of Materials Research), as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017.

Sascha Ott obtained his PhD in Chemistry at University College London, U.K., in 2002, followed by a postdoctoral spell with Profs. Björn Åkermark and Licheng Sun at Stockholm University, Sweden. In 2004, he moved to Uppsala University, where he became chair professor in Synthetic Molecular Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry – Ångström Laboratory in 2017. Research in the group is centred on different topics at the interface of organic chemistry and molecular inorganic chemistry. These include works on low-coordinate and low-valent phosphorus in an organic chemistry context, and the development of molecular redox catalysts of energy relevance, more recently on molecular electrocatalysis in the confinement of metal-organic frameworks. He is the recipient of a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (2015).