Organic Chemistry

Professor Jeffrey David Winkleris a Merriam Professor of Chemistry at University of Pennsylvania. He is also a Founding Member of Center for Cancer Pharmacology at University of Pennsylvania.From July 1990-June 1996, he was Associate Professor at University of Pennsylvania.He has received Philadelphia Organic Chemists’ Club Award in 2006 and American Chemical Society Cope Scholar Award in 2000.

Research interest includes design and synthesis of both natural products and molecules of design (unnatural products) with important structural and/or biological properties, development of new methodology in organic synthesis and the application of this methodology to the synthesis of naturally occurring compounds with important biological activity.

Igor Perepichka is a Professor of Chemistry at Bangor University, UK. He obtained his Diploma in Chemical Engineering from Donetsk Polytechnic Institute (1981) and his PhD in Organic Chemistry from the Institute of Physical Organic Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, IPOCC NASU (1987). He started his career at IPOCC NASU in Ukraine as an engineer in 1981 and was promoted to Senior Research Scientist in 1989. He has held several visiting positions, including Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (Würzburg University, Germany, 1995–1997), Visiting Scientist (CEA Saclay, France, 1999 and CNRS, Angers, 2000–2001), Invited Professor (Angers University, 2001–2002), Senior Research Associate (Durham University, 2003–2007). In 2007 he moved to the University of Central Lancashire (Preston, UK) as Reader in Chemistry. In 2010 he was appointed as Professor of Chemistry at Bangor University, UK. His work is documented in over 100 papers in refereed journals, over 20 patents and several books and book chapters, including “Handbook of Thiophene-Based Materials: Applications in Organic Electronics and Photonics” (I. F. Perepichka, D. F. Perepichka, Two-Volumes Set, Wiley, 2009).

Prof Perepichka’s field of research is organic materials chemistry. The main research activity is focused on design, synthesis and studies of novel organic pi-functional systems, from small molecules to conjugated polymeric materials, toward their applications in organic electronics, optoelectronics and photonics. Current research interests encompass the development of functional pi-conjugated systems with tailored electronic properties in view of applications in solar energy conversion, electronic and photonic devices, and nanoscience: novel conjugated pi-functional systems, reactions and methods of synthesis; conjugated polymers with tailored properties and functions; conductive, semiconductive and photoconductive pi-conjugated materials (from small molecules to oligomers and polymers); charge, electron and energy transfer processes in pi-systems; intermolecular and intramolecular charge transfer processes in pi-conjugated systems; electroactive and photoactive pi-functional systems; organic nanomaterials, supramolecular architectures and self-organized systems; organic molecular and polymeric materials for light-emitting devices, organic photovoltaics, field-effect transistors, electrochromic devices, non-linear optics, nanotechnologies, sensors/biosensors etc.

Uli Kazmaier studied chemistry at the University of Stuttgart where he obtained his PhD working with U. Schmidt. Afterwards he joined the research groups of M. T. Reetz (Marburg) and B. M. Trost (Stanford) as a postdoc. In 1992, he moved to Heidelberg starting his own scientific work at the Institute of Organic Chemistry. In 2000 he received a Novartis Chemistry Lectureship and in 2001 an offer of a full professorship at Saarland University, where he is since that time. His current research interest is focused on new organometallic reagents and reactions especially for amino acid and peptide synthesis, and their application to natural product synthesis. Late state modification of peptides allows medicinal chemistry with natural products.

Organic Chemistry, organometallic reagents, amino acid and peptide synthesis, natural product synthesis, medicinal chemistry with natural products

Dr. Mirosław Kwiatkowski in 2004 obtained Ph.D. degree at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, and in 2018 D.Sc. degree at Wrocław University of Technology. Currently he is working as an assistant professor at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow. His published work includes more than 45 papers in reputable international journals and 75 conference proceedings. He is the editor-in-chief International Journal of System Modeling and Simulation (UAE), a member of the twelve editorial board of internationals journals and a regular reviewer in a reputable scientific journals as well as a member of the organizing committees international conferences in Europe, Asia and United States of America.

Roberto Matassa received a B.Sc in Physics and Ph.D in Materials Science from “Sapienza” University of Rome. He currently works at Microscopy laboratory "Pietro M. Motta" of the Department of Anatomical, Histological, Medical-Legal Sciences and the Locomotive Engineer (SAIMLAL),"Sapienza" University of Rome. He is a member of Editorial Board for Scientific Reports, a journal published by Springer Nature (UK).

His current interest is deeply devoted to understand the morpho-chemical-structural evolution of synthetic hybrid-materials and/or natural biological systems using electron microscopic and X-ray diffraction techniques. Recently, his scientific research activity is also focusing on the observation of the microscopic and chemical species evolution of biomedical systems in native state through environmental microscopy techniques enhancing the gathered experimental results by theoretical methods of quantitative imaging analyses (QIA). These findings are focusing for further understanding their self-assembling mechanisms of the biohybrid systems useful for learning the principles that govern the dynamic changes in the adaptive living systems.

Ergin Yalçin currently works at the Graduate School Of Natural And Applied Sciences of Gazi University. His research interest focus on the synthesis of novel ligands which may have interaction with Biomolecules ( G-Quadruplex DNA, ds-DNA, RNA etc) that have a challenging task to identify biological important processes.

Ligand- DNA/RNA Interaction, Supramolecular Chemistry, Sensing of molecules.

Alexander O. Terent’ev was born in Moscow, in 1973. PhD degree (2000). D.Sc. degree (2009). Now he works in three organizations: from 2011 – Professor in D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, from 2014 – Head of laboratory in N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS, from 2016 – Head of laboratory in All-Russian Research Institute of Phytopathology. He published 3 chapters of books, 110 research papers, and 30 patents.

organic synthesis, catalysis in organic chemistry, medicinal and agricultural chemistry, chemical technology.

Dr. Elena R. Milaeva is a professor of Organic chemistry in Moscow State Lomonosov University, Head of the Department of Medicinal Chemistry & Fine Organic Synthesis. PhD in the A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelemet Compounds of Russian Academy of Sciences in 1980. Professor of Organic Chemistry in Moscow State Lomonosov University, Faculty of Chemistry in 1997.

organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, organometallic chemistry

Dr. Vinich Promarak obtained his D.Phil. degree in 2002 from School of Chemistry, University of Oxford, under a supervision of Prof. Paul Burn. He is currently a full professor in Chemistry at School of Molecular Science and Engineering, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC), Thailand. He was presented many awards including Thailand’s Young Scientist Awards in 2007, the Thailand Research Fund (TRF) Outstanding Research Award in 2015 and 2014, the National Research Council of Thailand Outstanding Research Award in 2013, Asian Core Program Lectureship Award in 2009 and 2012, TRF-CHE-Scopus Research Awards in 2013, and Wiley–Chemical Society of Thailand Outstanding Publication Award in 2011. Recently, he was awarded as the 2016 Outstanding National Researcher by the National Research Council of Thailand and the TRF Senior Research Scholar in 2017 from the TRF. His current research interests involve “High-Tech” organic materials that can be used in optoelectronic devices i.e. organic light-emitting diode, perovskite/dye-sensitized solar cell, bulk heterojunction solar cell, sensor, optical switch, organic field-effect transistor. To date, he has co-authored more than 115 peer-reviewed papers, and his publications have been cited over 2700 times with current H-index of 30.

High-Tech” organic materials,organic light-emitting diode, perovskite/dye-sensitized solar cell, bulk heterojunction solar cell, sensor, optical switch, organic field-effect transistor

Professor Shen-Ming Chen received his PhD degrees in chemistry from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. He was a visiting postdoctoral fellow with the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany in 1997. He had been an associate professor of Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taipei Institute of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan from 1991 to 1997. Since August 1997, he has been a professor of Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. From 2010, he has been a Distinguished professor of Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. He has been the Dean(Curator) of library, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan from 2000 to 2006 and the Director of Extracurricular Activity, office of student affairs, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan from 1995 to 2000.

His research interest includes Nanocomposite materials research, organic electrochemistry, bioelectrochemistry, conducting polymer Electrochemistry, Nanoelectrochemistry, chemical sensors, biosensors, electrocatalysis and electroanalysis.