Speakers

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Prof. RINALDO POLI

Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, CNRS Touluse

„The ever-expanding mechanistic landscape of (de)hydrogenation, hydrogen transfer and borrowing hydrogen transformations”

Prof. ISTVÁN FÁBIÁN

Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Debrecen

„The chlorination of amino acids”

Prof. SAMUEL DE VISSER

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Manchester

„Negative Catalysis in Nonheme Iron Enzymes. How do the enzymes trigger their chemoselectivity?”

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

 

 

Prof. MILOS R. FILIPOVIC

Leibniz Institute for Analytical Sciences, ISAS e.V.

„Metal centre-assisted signalling by hydrogen sulfide”

 

 

Prof. LECHOSŁAW LATOS-GRAŻYŃSKI

Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wrocław

„Carbaporphyrinoids – macrocyclic ligands in organometallic chemistry”

 

 

Prof. RADIM BERANEK 

Institute of Electrochemistry, University of Ulm

„Activity, stability, and selectivity in photo(electro)catalysis: challenges and examples”

 

 

Prof. JOSEF KRYSA

Department of Inorganic Technology, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prag

„Hematite photoanodes for energy and environmental applications”

 

 

Prof. ANDREW J. DEMELLO

Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich

„Microfluidic tools for nanomaterial synthesis„

 

 

 

Prof. MANUEL GARCÍA BASALLOTE

Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering and Inorganic Chemistry, University of Cadiz

„Activation parameters and Hammett plots for the reactions of a pair of isomeric Fe^IV(O) non-heme complexes”

 

 

Prof. JANUSZ LEWIŃSKI

Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology & Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences

„Unfolding mysteries of metal-dioxygen and metal-TEMPO chemistry”

INVITED SPEAKERS

Prof. ARTUR OSYCZKA

Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow

„Enzymatic reactions of quinones in cytochrome complexes”

Prof. DAN MEYERSTEIN

The Department of Chemical Sciences, Ariel University

“Mechanisms of the Fenton & Fenton like reactions”

Prof. RAFAŁ LUCHOWSKI

Institute of Physics, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin

“Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy reveals modes of activity of the polyene antibiotic amphotericin B against biomembranes”

Prof. DAVID M. STANBURY

Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Auburn University

„New developments in the principle of detailed balancing”

Prof. DIRK GULDI

Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg

„Mechanistic analysis and design of (novel) transition-metal-complex-based photocatalysts for triplet energy transfer activation”

Prof. MICHAEL ZDILLA

Department of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia

„Turning a cheap, poor catalyst into a cheap, excellent catalyst. Optimizing layered metal oxide materials for water oxidation using experiment and theory.”

Prof. TOMASZ BOROWSKI

Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences

 

„On computational (and other) studies aiding our understanding of reaction mechanisms by non-heme iron enzymes”

 

Prof. JUAN A. CASARES

IU CINQUIMA Universidad de Valladolid,

„Expected and unexpected role of a second copper unit in copper catalyzed cross coupling reactions: the mechanism of the oxidative addition of aryl halides to copper(I) complexes”

Prof. SIEGFRIED SCHINDLER

Chemistry Department, Justus-Liebig-University, Gießen

„From complex to simple: reactivity of copper complexes towards dioxygen and ozone”

Prof. KRZYSZTOF KRUCZAŁA

Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University in Kraków

„Application of electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy for interrogating catalytic systems”

Prof. ELON ISON

Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh

„Outer Sphere Mechanisms for Catalysis with Group 7 Complexes.”