Plenary Speakers
Keith Murray (Olivier Kahn Lecture)
Keith works in the School of Chemistry within the Faculty of Science at Monash University, Melbourne, as an Emeritus Professor. His research interests are in the field of molecular magnetism dealing with single molecule magnets (SMMs), single molecule toroics (SMTs) and spin-crossover species. He holds grants from the Australian Research Council and recently held a grant from the Australia-India AISRF program. It is 54 years since he left Manchester University for post-doctoral work in Australia having worked with David Machin in the 'old' Gouy balance lab. in the basement.
Daniella Goldfarb
Our research focuses on developments and applications of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy to problems in Biophysics and Structural Biology. EPR techniques provide dynamics, and geometric and electronic structures of paramagnetic molecules in solutions and solids. In addition we are interested in dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) methodology to enhance NMR signals via polarization transfer from radicals.
Ania Bleszynski Jayich
Ania Bleszynski Jayich is a Professor of Physics and the Director of the Quantum Foundry at the University of California Santa Barbara, where she holds the Bruker Endowed Chair for Science and Engineering. She received her PhD in physics from Harvard in 2006. Her research interests include quantum assisted sensing and imaging on the nanoscale, diamond optomechanics, and hybrid quantum systems for sensing and quantum information. She is the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award, and an NSF Career award.
Hiroki Oshio
Hiroki Oshio graduated from Kyushu University in 1977 and obtained his Ph.D. in 1982. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Marquette University between 1982 and 1984, he was appointed as a research associate at the Institute for Molecular Science (Okazaki, Japan) in 1985. In 1992 he moved to Tohoku University as an Associate Professor, before he was appointed as a Professor at the University of Tsukuba in the Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences in 2001. His research has focused on molecular magnetism, including bistable and spin-crossover systems. He received the CSJ Award for Creative Work (2005) and for the Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry Award (2016). He has accumulated over 200 peer-reviewed research publications.
David Leigh
David Leigh is one of the world’s leading supramolecular chemists. He has developed a number of influential concepts for the synthesis of interlocked and knotted molecular architectures, introduced the use of ratchet mechanisms in the invention of synthetic molecular motors, initiated the field of small-molecule robotics, and is one of the pioneers of artificial molecular machinery and molecular nanotechnology. He has received a number of major international awards including the Izatt-Christensen Award for Macrocyclic Chemistry, EU Descartes Prize, Feynman Prize for Nanotechnology and, most recently, the ISNSCE (International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation and Engineering) Nanoscience Prize.
