{"id":1592,"date":"2015-09-15T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T15:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tateshina.chem-station.com\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2016-09-08T00:16:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:16:00","slug":"speakers-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tateshina.chem-station.com\/?p=1592","title":{"rendered":"Speakers 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prof. Ian Baxendale obtained his first degree from the University of Leicester graduating with a BSc 1st class honours in Chemistry. He remained at Leicester to continue his studies pursuing a PhD under the supervision of Prof. Pavel Kocovsky.\u00a0In 1999 he moved to a postdoctoral position with Prof. Steven V. Ley at the University of Cambridge. In 2003 he was awarded a Wolfson Royal Society Fellowship. Then in 2005 he co-founded the Innovative Technology Centre (ITC) with Prof. Ley as a centre of excellence for the study and development of advanced chemical synthesis tools and methodologies where he was the centre’s Director. In 2008 he was promoted to a Senior Research Associate within the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge and then in 2009 was awarded a prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship and become a member of the Chemistry Departments teaching faculty.\u00a0In 2005 Prof.’s Baxendale and Ley established a spin-out company; Reaxa Ltd, as a joint venture between the University of Cambridge and Avecia plc. The company was focused upon the developed of enabling tools such as immobilised catalysts and metal scavengers for bulk scale production of high volume intermediates and APIs. In 2010 the company sold its scavenger range (QuadraPure\u2122 and QuadraSil\u2122 scavengers – leading technology in metal extraction and purification for pharma manufacturing) to Johnson Matthey. Then divested its EnCat\u2122 encapsulated catalyst technology to S. Amit & Co., a Mumbai-based chemistry services provider. The remaining company assets were integrated into a new venture Yorkshire Process Technology Ltd.\u00a0In 2012 Ian moved to Durham to take up the Chair of Synthetic Chemistry as a fully tenured Professor.<\/p>\n

His current research interests are the design and implementation of new enabling technologies such as Flow Chemical Synthesis (FCS), Synthesis Automation Methodologies (SAM), microwave reactors and immobilised reagents and scavengers to expedite complex chemical syntheses. The success of his academic career is reflected by >125 publications (H-index=36), including several reviews and book chapters, with a total of >3900 citations.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Terunori Fujita studied chemistry, (specifically, natural product synthesis), with Professors\u00a0Takeshi Matsumoto and Haruhisa Shirahama at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, and\u00a0obtained his Ph.D. in 1988 in supramolecular chemistry from the Louis Pasteur University in\u00a0Strasbourg, France, under the supervision of Professor Jean-Marie Lehn.<\/p>\n

In 1982 he joined Mitsui Petrochemical Industries, Ltd., now Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. In 2001 he\u00a0was appointed a Mitsui research fellow for his contributions to the development of new olefin\u00a0polymerization catalysts, now known as FI catalysts, and in 2005 he became the general\u00a0manager of the catalysis science laboratory at Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. He became an executive\u00a0officer in 2008, and then a board director of the company in 2009. He became the center\u00a0executive of the research center in 2010. Since 2011 he has been the president & CEO of\u00a0Mitsui Chemicals Singapore R&D Center, Pte. Ltd., Mitsui Chemicals\u2019 R&D hub for ASEAN\u00a0countries and India.<\/p>\n

He has about 400 patents and 160 publications including research papers, reviews, and book\u00a0contributions. He has received a number of awards, which include the Chemical Society of\u00a0Japan Award for Creative Work in 2003, the Award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan,\u00a0in 2005, the Japan Petroleum Institute Award in 2008, the Yamazaki-Teiichi Prize also in 2008,\u00a0the Catalysis Society of Japan Award in 2010, and the Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award,\u00a0Japan, in 2011. Additionally, in 2010, he was awarded the Commendation for Science and\u00a0Technology by the Japanese Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.\u00a0He has been a member of the Science Council of Japan since 2011.<\/p>\n

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Prof. Alois F\u00fcrstner was born in 1962 in Bruck an der Mur,\u00a0Austria. He received his Ph.D. in 1987 from the Technical\u00a0University of Graz under Prof. Weidmann. In 1990-1991, he\u00a0was engaged in postdoctoral studies with Prof. Oppolzer at the\u00a0University of Geneva. He completed his habilitation in 1992 at\u00a0the Technical University of Graz and obtained a position as a\u00a0professor at the Max-Planck-Institut f\u00fcr Kohlenforschung. In\u00a01998, he was promoted to director. He is also affiliated with the\u00a0University of Dortmund. His contributions to chemistry have\u00a0been recognized with numerous awards, including the\u00a0Dozentenstipendium of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie\u00a0(1994), the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (2002), the Otto\u00a0Bayer Prize (2006),\u00a0Janssen Pharmaceutica Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis (2008), Lilly European Distinguished Lectureship Award (2008),\u00a0Prelog Medal, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2011),\u00a0Prix Jaubert of the University of Geneva (2011),\u00a0Karl Ziegler Prize of the German Chemical Society (2013),\u00a0Kitasato Medal, Tokyo, Japan (2013),\u00a0Hans Herloff Inhoffen Medal (2013),\u00a0Gay-Lussac-Humboldt Prize (2014)<\/p>\n

Research in the F\u00fcrstner group focuses on organometallic\u00a0chemistry and its application to the synthesis of complex natural\u00a0products. Specific areas of focus include alkene and alkyne\u00a0metathesis, development of new metal catalyzed and mediated\u00a0reactions, and the preparation and use of active metals.<\/p>\n

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Prof. Andy Hor [D.Sc.(Lond), D.Phil.(Oxford), B.Sc.(Hon)(Imperial College), Postdoc(Yale)] is Professor of Chemistry in the National University of Singapore and President of Singapore National Institute of Chemistry. He has published over 240 international papers in heterometallic syntheses, homogeneous catalysis and supramolecular assembly with about 3,500 citations and an h-index of 29. He has been conferred different fellowship such as Humboldt, Wilsmour, Anthony Mason, Frances Lion Memorial, Jackson Memorial and professorship at Nagoya, Sydney, Melbourne, M\u00fcnster, Strasbourg, etc. He is the Associate Editor (Commissioning) of Aust. J. Chem. (CSIRO) and member of the international advisory panel of Chem. Asian J. (VCH\/Wiley) and Inorg. Chim. Acta. (Elsevier) He has delivered numerous invited\/keynote\/plenary lectures in different conferences and symposia, and will chair the 41st International Coordination Chemistry Conference (ICCC) in Singapore in 2014. To date, he has supervised about 30 Ph.D., 20 M.Sc. students and over 100 B.Sc. Hon students as well as 70 SRP, 15 SMP and over 80 school students on projects. Over the years, he has received numerous teaching awards, including the Outstanding Educator Award (NUS) in 2002. He is currently the advisor of Victoria Junior College, Nanyang Girls\u2019 High School and World Scientific.<\/p>\n

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Prof.\u00a0Ang Li received his B.S. degree at\u00a0Peking University, Beijing, China
\n(Prof. Zhen Yang) in 2004. and Ph.D degree from\u00a0The Scripps Research Institute, California, USA\u00a0(Prof. K. C. Nicolaou) in 2009. Afterwards, he became research fellow, Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, Singapore (Prof. K. C. Nicolaou), and in\u00a02010, he promoted\u00a0Professor, State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Product Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China. His research interest is total synthesis of structually and biologically interesting natural products. He has received many awards including\u00a0Asian Core Program Lectureship Award (2013),\u00a0Chinese Chemical Society Wei-Shan Award for Synthetic Chemistry(2013),\u00a0China Pharmaceutical Association\u2013SERVIER Youth Medicinal Chemist Award (2013),\u00a0Thieme Chemistry Journal Award (2013),\u00a0Asian Core Program Lectureship Award (2012),\u00a0Eli Lilly Graduate Fellowship (2009), and so on.<\/p>\n

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Prof. Hsiao-hua (Bruce) Yu<\/span>\u00a0was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He received his B.S. degree in chemistry from National Taiwan University\u00a0<\/span>(Prof. Man-kit Leung and Prof. Tien-Yau Luh)\u00a0<\/span>and his Ph.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in organic chemistry<\/span>\u00a0(Prof. Timothy M. Swager)<\/span>. He became interested in chemistry when he was young and he was the first gold medalist for Taiwan in the International Chemistry Olympiad competition. He worked on design, syntheses, and applications of molecular actuators for actuating and sensing applications. After completing his postdoctoral research in Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/span>\u00a0(Prof. Paula T. Hammond)<\/span>, he joined Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore as a Team Leader and Senior Research Scientist. In Singapore, his research focus on utilizing organic conductive materials, particularly conducting polymers for biosensors. In 2008, he received an Initiative Research Unit fund from RIKEN, the most prestigious research institute in Japan, as a young principle investigator to work on the area \u201c<\/span>s<\/span>ynthetic organic chemistry directed toward materials science\u201d. He relocated to Japan and initiated a research concept he described as \u201corganic conductive biomaterials\u201d, where he\u00a0<\/span>develops an<\/span>\u00a0independent and multidisciplinary research program though the triangle of chemistry, electronic materials, and biomedical\/biological investigations based on molecular and nano-assembled building blocks of conducting polymers. He is not limited his work in science and technology level and eager to see real applications blossomed from the cross<\/span>roads<\/span>\u00a0among molecular science, nanotechnology and biotechnology.<\/span><\/p>\n

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