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He then joined the chemistry department of the Harvard University (Cambridge/ USA) for a postdoctoral stay in the group of Prof. Elias Corey. Urmann began his industrial career in 1993 as a medicinal chemist in the pharmaceutical research unit of Sanofi (Frankfurt/M.). During his career he could contribute to the discovery of several new development candidates in the area of Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Thrombosis. Since 2018 he is the Head of Diabetes & Cardiovascular External Innovation in Global Business Development & Licensing at Sanofi. In addition he is the president of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) for the years 2018/2019.

He is a leading scientist on global water resources, with about 25 years of experience from applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 150 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability.

Before joining Reed Exhibitions in 2016, Kumsal was RELX Group’s Chief Strategy Officer, responsible for driving strategic initiatives, technology strategy and portfolio management. Prior to that she served in several operational and strategic roles with LexisNexis.

Kumsal also chairs the Technology Forum at RELX Group and is a non-executive director at LSL Property Services plc. Prior to joining RELX Group in 2004, Kumsal spent several years at Bain & Company in their New York, Los Angeles, Johannesburg and Sydney offices.

Kumsal earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and is a graduate of University of California at Berkeley where she received a Bachelor’s degree in Economics with honors.

In 2002 he was awarded a Ph.D. in Chemistry at Reading University; research focusing on macrocycle-polymer interconversion (2003). He then moved to University of Los Angeles California (UCLA) working on molecular machines and supramolecular chemistry in the laboratory of Sir. J.-F. Stoddart (Nobel Laureate 2016) as a post-doctoral fellow.

In 2005 he joined the Interuniversity Consortium of Chemistry for the Environment collaborating with the University Ca’ Foscari (Venezia) within the field of Green Chemistry. Since 2015 he is an associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at Ca’ Foscari University, his research interests encompass Green Chemistry, organic carbonates, renewable resources, new synthetic approach and chlorine-free chemistry.

She became a professor in 2003, and is full professor of physical chemistry at University of Antwerp, since 2012. From 2013-2016 she was Francqui Distinguished Research Professor, with limited teaching duties. She is head of the research group PLASMANT, with research activities on modelling of plasma chemistry, plasma reactor design and plasma−surface interactions, as well as plasma experiments for various applications, with major emphasis on environmental and medical applications.

Glenn completed a degree in chemistry at Durham University followed by a PhD in chemical engineering, specialising in polymer chemistry, at Newcastle University. Glenn ’s area of research is within all levels of green chemistry education together with related interests in utilising social media and game-based learning strategies to transform the student learning experience. Glenn regularly publishes in the chemical education and higher education scholarly literature and is currently chair of the Royal Society of Chemistry Higher Education Group. Glenn has recently been shortlisted by Times Higher Education in the ‘Most Innovative Teacher of the Year’ category in 2018 together with being recognised by Jisc as one of the top ten social media superstars in higher education.

He received his diploma (1989) and his doctoral (1992) degrees in organic chemistry from the University of Graz and after two postdoctoral stays (University of Queensland and Emory University) returned to Graz in 1996 to start his indepenent acacdemic career and was appointed Full Professor in 2011. For the past decade the focus of his research has been directed towards flow chemistry/microreaction technology, encompassing a wide variety of synthetic transformations and experimental techniques.

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His research is mainly on factors that drive entrepreneurial activities towards success among others research on networks of entrepreneurs, open innovation networks, entrepreneurship in life science, social entrepreneurship and online social networks. His work has appeared among more in Journal of Consumer Research, Economy and Society, Research Policy, Heath Policy, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Research-TechnologyManagement, Technovation, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, International Journal of Project Management, Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, International Journal of Entrepreneurship Venturing.

in engineering from Tohoku University in 1994. The main research theme is to develop the reaction separation process that synthesizes high value-added substances such as food and medicine from unused biomass resources. Her research group reported that porous ion-exchange resins have high catalytic activity for the synthesis of water insoluble esters. They also have constructed and operated the practical production apparatus for biofuels and natural vitamin E (tocopherol and tocotrienol). Last year, Naomi received the Green Sustainable Chemistry (GSC) Award of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

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His research interests are in biocatalysis, directed evolution of enzymes and synthetic biology. He has published 270 papers/patents with an H-index of 53 and ca. 9,000 citations. He is a member of several Scientific Advisory Boards and consults widely. He has received many awards for his research achievements and currently holds an ERC Advanced Grant (2017-2022).

Following post-doctoral research at Cambridge (1996-98) and the University of York (1998-99) with Prof. James Clark, Karen was appointed to her first independent academic position at York in 1999. In 2009 Karen moved to Cardiff University where she was appointed to a Readership in Physical Chemistry, a post she held until 2013, when she relocated to Aston University as Professor of Catalysis and Research Director of the European Bioenergy Research Institute. In January 2018, Karen relocated to RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, where she is currently Professor of Catalysis.

Karen’s research interests lie in the design of heterogeneous catalysts for clean chemical synthesis, particularly the design of tuneable porous materials for sustainable biofuels and chemicals production from renewable resources. From 2011-2015 Karen held a Royal Society Industry Fellowship in collaboration with Johnson Matthey to work on the development of catalysts for biofuels production. She has authored more than 250 papers, 6 patents, has an h-index = 60 and was founding director of the “Global Bioenergy, Biofuels and Biorefining Network: GB3-Net”.

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Prof. Ning Yan obtained his BS and PhD in Chemistry at Peking University in 2004 and 2009, respectively. He worked at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland as a Marie-Curie Research Fellow from 2009-2012. In July 2012 he joined the department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018. Dr. Yan’s research interests include nanocatalysis and green chemistry. He also holds visiting professorship in Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in China, Hokkaido University in Japan, and University of Toulouse in France.

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