Prof. Gloria Berlier

University of Turin

Gloria Berlier is Full Professor in Physical Chemistry at the University of Turin, Italy. She is the coordinator of the MSCA-ITN project CHASS: ‘Cu-CHA zeolite-based catalysts for the selective catalytic reduction of NOx in exhaust diesel gas: addressing the issue of Sulfur Stability’. She has worked as post-doctoral research assistant at the Davy Faraday Research Laboratories of the Royal Institution in London. Among her research topics, she has been mainly concerned with the characterization of heterogeneous catalysts, focusing on the structure and reactivity of surface sites for applications ranging from environmental catalysis to prebiotic chemistry. Her experimental approach involves in situ and operando optical spectroscopies, electronic microscopy and structural techniques. 

Prof. Mercedes Boronat

Universidad Politècnica de València

Specialized in computational chemistry applied to heterogeneous catalysis, her work focuses on the theoretical study of reaction mechanisms on solid catalysts such acid zeolites, metal oxides, metal clusters and nanoparticles, MOFs, etc., aiming to identify the specific active and selective centers and use this information to guide the design of improved materials. Co-author of 130 articles in prestigious international journals, two book chapters and four patents, and supervisor of seven doctoral theses, two of them in progress.  

Prof.Robert Bell

University College London

Robert Bell was educated at University College London (UCL) and the University of Southampton. He spent over 15 years as a researcher at the Davy Faraday Research Laboratory of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, moving to the Chemistry Department at UCL in 2005.  His research involves the application of computational chemistry methods to the science of zeolites and microporous materials. Areas of interest have included sorption and diffusion of gases in zeolites, including modelling of CO2 capture; catalysis in zeolitic systems, and the structure and stability of microporous materials, extending into the field of hypothetical zeolites. He was previously Chairman of the British Zeolite Association (2012-15), and currently serves as Chair of the Structure Commission of the international Zeolite Association.

Prof. Jiří Čejka

Charles Univ

Prof. Jiří Čejka is currently a Professor at the Department of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. In 2005 he chaired the 3rd FEZA Conference on Zeolites in Prague and is an organizer of Workshops on zeolites and catalysis, e.g. the EFCATS School on Catalysis in 2018. His research interests include synthesis of zeolites and nanoporous materials and their applications in adsorption and catalysis. Jiří Čejka is the co-author of 400 papers, co-editor of 6 books. He is a principal investigator of projects supported by the Czech Science Foundation and Horizon Europe. He received the FEZA baron Axel F. Cronsted Award in 2020, jointly with W. Roth.

Prof. Fei-Jian Chen

Jilin University (China)

Prof. Fei-Jian Chen is currently a full Professor at Jilin University (China). He earned his PhD from Nanjing University in 2014，then he went to Bengbu Medical College as an associate professor (2014-2022). In 2022, he joined in the State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, Jilin University, and is a member of International Center of Future Science, Jilin University. In 2024, he received National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists. His research mainly focuses on rational synthesis of new type of large and extra-large pore zeolites. He is the main inventor of new type of zeolites named by NUD series and ZEO series.

Prof. Dirk De Vos

KU Leuven

Dirk De Vos has been a Full Professor in Catalysis at KULeuven since 2006. He is fascinated by the applications of zeolites and molecular sieves in general (including MOFs) to adsorption and catalytic reactions of organic molecules. Particular fields of interest are C-H activation of arenes, oxidative transformations (possibly with electro-assistance), CO2 activation to chemicals, depolymerization of step-growth polymers, and functionalization of polyolefins. From 2015 till 2024, he was an Associate Editor at RSC’s Catalysis Science and Technology. He was Department Head at KULeuven from 2010 till 2018, and is since 2023 Vice-Dean Education of the Bio-Engineering Faculty at KULeuven. His awards include the Donald Breck Award of the IZA and the BASF catalysis award.

Prof. Mohamed Eddaoudi

KAUST 

Prof. Qianrong Fang

Jilin University

Professor Qianrong Fang obtained both his Bachelor’s degree in 2001 and his Ph.D. in 2007 from Jilin University, China. From 2007 to 2014, his postdoctoral research took him to leading institutions in the United States, including UCLA, Texas A&M, UC Riverside, and the University of Delaware. In 2015, he returned to Jilin University as a full professor at the State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis & Preparative Chemistry. His research focuses on the design and synthesis of covalent organic frameworks (COFs), with applications in adsorption, separation, and catalysis.

Prof. Xiaolei Fan

The University of Manchester

Xiaolei Fan is a researcher with 15-year experience in porous materials and heterogeneous catalysis. He received PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bath in 2010, he took the postdoctoral positions at the University of Warwick and University of Cambridge in 2010-2013, and he is a faculty member at The University of Manchester since 2013. He is the elected Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and Higher Education Academy in the United Kingdom. He has published 200+ peer-reviewed articles in his fields with a H index of 47.

Prof. Rajamani Gounder

Purdue University

Raj Gounder is the R. Norris and Eleanor Shreve Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the Catalysis Center at Purdue University. He received his PhD from the University of California Berkeley in 2011 and completed his postdoctoral research training at the California Institute of Technology in 2013. His research group studies catalysis for applications in energy production and environmental protection, including automotive pollution abatement and converting carbon feedstocks to fuels and chemicals. His research focuses on elucidating the kinetic and mechanistic details of catalytic reactions, synthesizing zeolites with tailored site and surface properties, and developing methods to characterize and titrate active sites in catalytic materials. He has co-authored >115 journal publications and >10 patents, and his research has been recognized by numerous awards. He is an Associate Editor of Science Advances and Reaction Chemistry & Engineering.

Prof. Jun Huang

The University of Sydney

Professor Jun Huang received his PhD from University of Stuttgart in 2008. After his postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology and ETH Zurich, he joined the University of Sydney as a permanent faculty in 2010, moving up the ranks to Professor at Sydney. Jun is the Domain Leader of Materials in Nanoscale at Sydney Nano, Sydney Nano CO2Zero Grand Challenge Champion, and the Academic Leader of University of Sydney – Zhejiang University Joint Lab on Sustainable Environment. His research is to develop emerging nanoporous catalysts and supported nanometal catalysts for more attractive, practical, and cleaner processes using in situ characterization techniques coupled with innovative reaction engineering. Jun has published over 230 journal publications in high-rank Journals. He has been awarded over AU$ 12m research grants and many prestigious awards including ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award, CCST-IChemE Carbon Capture Outstanding Achievement Award, Australia’s Most Innovative Engineer, and the Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence Outstanding Research. Jun is the Editor-in-Chief of Materials Today Sustainability, Editorial Group Member of National Science Review, and the Editorial Board member of other high-rank journals. 

Prof. Yining Huang

The University of Western Ontario

Dr. Yining Huang earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Peking University and his Ph.D. from McGill University, followed by postdoctoral research at the University of British Columbia. He is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry at The University of Western Ontario. Dr. Huang has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers, with research mainly focused on the characterization of inorganic materials, including layered materials, zeolites, mesoporous materials, and metal-organic frameworks, using vibrational and particularly solid-state NMR spectroscopy.

Prof. Jiuxing Jiang

Sun Yat-sen University

Jiuxing Jiang, was born in 1983, obtained his Bachelor degree of chemistry and Ph.D. degree of inorganic chemistry at Jilin University in 2005 and 2010 respectively. 2011-2015 he had a postdoctoral stay in Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica (CSIC-UPV) in Valencia, Spain. And then, he moved to School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-sen University and started his independent research work. The research interests mainly focused on: 1)Discovery of novel type of zeolite with independent topology; 2) The synthesis of small pore zeolite and its application on NH3-SCR catalysis; 3) Zeolite with intrinsic amphiphilicity its application on the Pickering Interfacial Catalysis. He published more than 40 leading journal research articles including Science, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Etc. His discovery of novel zeolite leads 5 three-letter codes(IRR，-IRY，-IFU, -SYT，-IRT) of Structure Database of International Zeolite Association. Now, he also acts as the member of the Chinese Zeolite Association, Youth Editorial Board of Chemical Research in Chinese University, etc.

Prof. Landong Li

Nankai University

Landong Li is a distinguished professor at College of Chemistry, Nankai University. Prof. Li directs comprehensive research on zeolites and zeolite catalysis, with focus on the unique chemical behaviors in the confined space of zeolites. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers in Science, National Science Review, Chem, J Am Chem Soc, etc. He currently serves as an editorial board member of Chinese Journal of Catalysis and a member of editorial working group of National Science Review.

Prof. Wei Li

Fudan University

Wei Li, Yangtze River Scholar Distinguished Professor at Fudan University. He has published more than 200 SCI papers in Nature Sustain., Nature Protoc., Nature Commun., Sci. Adv., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Natl. Sci. Rev., etc., which have been cited more than 30,000 times. H-index 95. He has won the first prize of the National Natural Science Award in 2020 (the second complete adult). He is currently a member of the International Mesostructured Materials Association, the Energy Chemistry Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society, and a member of the editorial working group of National Science Review. 

Prof. Masahiko Matsukata

Waseda University

Prof. Masahiko Matsukata received his B.Eng. (1984) and PhD degrees (1989) at Waseda University. He joined the Departmet of Industrial Chemistry, Seikei University (1989) and the Department of Chemical Engineering, Osaka University (1992) as a research associate. After being promoted to Associate Professor at Osaka University (1997), he moved to Department of Applied Chemistry, Waseda University (2001). He was promoted to be full professor at Waseda University (2001). He has held positions in the following societies: Council Member of IZA (2021-2022), Chair of Green Sustainable Chemistry Network, Japan, (2010-current), President of the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan (2022-2023), President of Japan Association of Zeolites (2016-2022), and Vise President of Japan Petroleum Institute (2022-2024).

Prof. Xiangju Meng

Zhejiang University

Prof. Xiangju Meng obtained his B.S. degree (1999) and Ph.D. degree (2004) at Jilin University, China. After postdoctoral research in Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan) and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, Japan), he joined Prof. Xiao’s group. In 2009, He moved to Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University and promoted to be a full professor at Zhejiang University in 2015. In 2021, he became a distinguished professor at Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University. 

Prof. Svetlana Mintova

Normandie University

Director of Research 1st Class at CNRS at LCS-ENSICAEN-Normandy University, and Head of the Centre for Zeolites and Nanoporous Materials. Her research focuses on porous materials, with expertise in zeolite synthesis, advanced characterizations, and applications in catalysis, separation and biomedicine.She has received several awards, including the Baron Axel Cronstedt Award from the European Zeolite Association Federation (FEZA), the Donald Breck Award from the International Zeolite Association (IZA), Les Étoiles de l'Europe (Stars of Europe), the Flanigen Lecture Award in Materials Science at Honeywell UOP, Le Prix La Recherche Chimie in France, the Honorary Award from the French Zeolite Association (GFZ), the Shandong International Science and Technology Cooperation Award and Qingdao Award in China.

She serves as President of the International Zeolite Association (IZA) and Chair of the Synthesis Commission. She is also an Associate Editor for Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers (RSC) and Editor of Microporous Mesoporous Materials(Elsevier).In 2022, she was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. She has been selected to carry the Olympic flame for Paris 2024, symbolizing academic excellence and sporting spirit.

Prof. Massimo Migliori

UNICAL, Rende

Prof. Ana Palčić

Ruđer Bošković Institute

Ana Palčić (Zagreb, Croatia) studied chemistry at the University of Zagreb and completed her PhD thesis at the same University. She has worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Valentin Valtchev in Laboratory of Catalysis and Spectroscopy in Caen, France. In 2015 she was promoted to research associate at the Ruđer Bošković Institute while in 2022 was appointed senior research associate. At present Dr Palčić is the president of the Croatian Zeolite Association and member of the Federation of European Zeolite Associations board. Her research is focused on green synthesis of zeolites with pre-determined properties for application in catalysis and environment protection.

Prof.Sibele Pergher

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Graduated in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1990), Master in Chemical Engineering from the State University of Maringá (1993), and Doctor in Chemistry from the Polytechnic University of Valencia/Spain (1997). She completed her postdoctoral studies at the Institute of Chemistry of UFRGS (2002 and 2009). She was recently a visiting researcher at the University of Leipzig/Germany (2024).

Prof. Xiu-Lian Pan

Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Xiulian Pan is a Professor of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences. She leads a research team, being dedicated to catalytic chemistry of C1 molecules, including CO, CO2 and CH4, as well as catalytic upcycling of waste polymers and mild condition ammonia synthesis. Therefore, synthesis of zeolitic materials and utilization is one of her interests. She has received a number of distinguished awards including the NSFC Award for Distinguished Young Scholars (2014), CCS-BASF Youth Innovation Prize (2014), the Young Woman Scientist Award of China (2017) and The First Prize of National Natural Science Award (2020) among others. She serves on a number of advisory boards of scientific journals.

Prof. Zhen-An Qiao

Jilin University

Zhen-An Qiao received his B.S. degree (2006) and Ph. D. degree (2011) at Jilin University, China. After the postdoc research at University of Tennessee (2011–2012) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2012–2015), he became a professor of inorganic chemistry at the State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, Jilin University. He is committed to the research of synthetic chemistry of mesoporous materials for catalysis, energy storage devices and electrode materials for batteries. More than 100 SCI papers have been published by Zhen-An Qiao as corresponding authors in JACS, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Nat. Commun., etc., and the non-self-citations are more than 7000 times. He served as council member of International Mesostructured Materials Association Council.

Prof. Jeffrey D. Rimer

University of Houston

Jeff Rimer is the Abraham E. Dukler Endowed Chair and Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Houston. Jeff received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware and spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at New York University prior to joining Houston in 2009. Jeff’s research in the area of crystal engineering focuses on the rational design of materials with specific applications in the synthesis of microporous catalysts and adsorbents. Jeff is a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors and has received numerous awards that include the NSF CAREER Award, the 2016 Owens Corning Early Career Award from AIChE, the 2018 Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research from The Welch Foundation, and the 2020 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering. He is an executive committee member for the International Zeolite Association, vice chair of the IZA Synthesis Commission, elected chair of the 2028 International Zeolite Conference, and he has also chaired two Gordon Research Conferences on Nanoporous Materials & Their Applications and Crystal Growth & Assembly. Jeff has served as an Associate Editor of Crystal Growth & Design and a member of the advisory boards for several other journals.

Prof.Junliang Sun 

Peking University

He received his bachelor and PhD degrees from Peking University in 2001 and 2006 respectively. After Postdoc research in Cornell University and Stockholm University, he became an assistant professor in Stockholm University in 2009 supported by Swedish Research Council. In 2012, he moved to College of Chemistry & Molecular Engineering, Peking University as a principal investigator. In 2016, he became Secretary-General of Chinese Crystallographic Society. In 2021, he received National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists. His research mainly focuses on the method development of structure characterization (single crystal X-ray diffraction, powder X-ray diffraction, electron crystallography) and materials development for various applications (porous materials and oxides). He has published more than 100 publications in related field, including Nature, Science, Nature Mater., Nature Chem. etc.

Prof. Jin Shang

The University of Hong Kong

Prof. Jin Shang is a tenured Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong, leading the Adsorption Separation Lab (https://jinshang-see.github.io/JinShangGroup.github.io/) in the School of Energy and Environment. A seasoned chemical engineer, he specializes in adsorption-based gas separation technology, focusing on carbon capture, carbon removal, natural gas and hydrogen purification, and the extraction of ambient toxic gases or vapors. He discovered the molecular trapdoor mechanism, the fourth recognized method for adsorption-based separation, showing the highest CO2 selectivity in natural gas purification. Prof. Shang’s accolades include the 2024 Carbon Capture Award for Excellent Research and the 2022 ISTP-Bogen Young Scientist Award. He serves as an editor for several prominent journals including Cambridge Prisms: Carbon Technologies and Carbon Capture Science & Technology. He has published over 130 papers with an h-index of 51. Recognized among Stanford's top 2% most highly cited scientists in 2022, 2023, and 2024, his work has garnered over 6800 citations.

Prof. Chunshan Song

The University of Hong Kong

Chunshan Song (宋春山) is Dean of the Faculty of Science and Wei Lun Professor of Chemistry at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shatin, NT). He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Fuel Science and Chemical Engineering and the former Director of EMS Energy Institute and DOE University Alliance for Fossil Energy Research (UCFER) at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He graduated with BSc in Chemical Engineering from Dalian University of Technology and M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Chemistry from Osaka University, Japan. His research focuses on catalysis, plasma catalysis, and chemistry of energy and fuels including adsorptive CO2 capture and catalytic conversion of CO2, shape-selective catalysis (using various zeolites) and hydrocarbon chemistry. He has received George A. Olah Award, Fellow of ACS (Am Chem Soc), Henry H. Storch Award and ACS Energy & Fuels Distinguished Researcher Award, Distinguished Fulbright Scholar Award from US-UK, Changjiang Scholar from Ministry of Education of China, Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Outstanding Achievement Award from the Chinese American Chemical Society (CACS), and Distinguished Fellow of International Association for Carbon Capture (IACC). He is Chair of International Scientific Committee for International Conference of Carbon Dioxide Utilization (ICCDU), serves as an Advisory Editor for Journal of CO2 Utilization, Associate Editor in Chief for the Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, and an advisory board member for a number of research journals and research organizations. He is an Adjunct Professor at Dalian University of Technology, Honorary Professor of Tianjin University and Honorary Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). 

Prof. Bert Sels

KU Leuven

Prof. Matthias Thommes

Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

Matthias Thommes is Full Professor and Head of the Institute of Separation Science and Technology at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). He also served as Head of the Department for Chemical and Biological Engineering at FAU from 2021 to 2023.

Matthias obtained his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 1993 at the Technical University Berlin. From 1992 to 1995 he was a project scientist at the EURECA mission of the European Space Agency (ESA). In 1996, he moved as an ESA fellow/research associate to the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.  In 1998, Matthias joined Quantachrome Corp (Boynton Beach, FL, USA).and was prior to accepting the position at FAU  Scientific Director at Quantachrome Corporation, Boynton Beach, USA (from 2001 to 2018). .In addition, he held Visiting Professor positions at the University of Edinburgh (UK) and the University of Lorraine (Epinal, Nancy, France) as well as prestigious leadership positions in a number of national and international boards, committees and authoritative bodies in the field of adsorption, nanoporous materials and their characterization. This includes  the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)), American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE), International Zeolite Association (IZA), Facility of Adsorbent Testing and Characterization (FACT) at the National Institute of Standards (NIST, USA), International Adsorption Society (IAS), International Standard Organization (ISO).

Matthias Thommes’ work involves investigating the adsorption behavior of fluids in nanoporous materials, developing methodologies for application-specific nanoporous material characterization (both in the dry and wet phase) and conducting research in gas and energy storage. Within this framework, he examines the effects of nano-confinement on the adsorption, phase and wetting behavior of subcritical and supercritical fluids in nanopores. His research forms a link between the adsorption properties of adsorbents and their characteristics with the development of nanoporous materials and their use in various processes

He has received numerous recognitions for his work, among them the induction as a Fellow of the International Adsorption Society (IAS) in 2021.and most recently by the  American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), where is was distinguished for his outstanding achievements in the area of fundamentals of adsorption and porous materials characterization. during a dedicated  Honorary Session on October 28th in San Diego (USA)  at the 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting. 

Prof. Arne Thomas

TU Berlin

Arne Thomas heads the Functional Materials group at the Institute of Chemistry at TU Berlin. He studied chemistry in Gießen, Marburg and Edinburgh and completed his doctoral thesis at the MPI of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam/Golm, under Markus Antonietti. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, in the group of Galen Stucky, he returned to the MPI-KGF as a group leader. In 2009, he was appointed to a professorship for Functional Materials at the TU Berlin. His group is interested in nanostructured and porous inorganic and organic materials and their diverse applications in gas separation, energy storage or catalysis. He received an ERC starting grant and the Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award and was nominated for the “Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year” in 2023. Since 2019, he has been the spokesperson of the Cluster of Excellence Unifying Systems in Catalysis – UniSysCat, in which over 60 working groups in the Berlin/Potsdam region are working on new sustainable catalysis concepts. 

Prof. Peng Tian

Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS

Peng Tian is chair professor of industrial catalysis and group leader of Molecular Sieve Synthesis in Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She received her Ph.D. degree from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in 2004. Her research focuses on synthesis and catalytic application of molecular sieve materials. She has co-authored over 100 scientific articles and 150 patents. 

Prof. Ajayan Vinu

   University of Newcastle

Prof. Paul Wright

University of St Andrews

Paul Wright is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews, UK. He carried out his PhD at Cambridge and he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Davy-Faraday Laboratory of The Royal Institution of Great Britain in London before moving to Scotland. He has served as President of the British Zeolite Association, Secretary of the International Zeolite Association and a member of the IZA Structure Commission. Recently, he has been a Royal Society Industrial Fellow working on the industrial application of zeolites with Johnson Matthey. His research focuses on the synthesis and characterisation of microporous solids and their applications in carbon capture and catalysis. He has published over 200 papers and his research group is responsible for the STA series of microporous solids.

Prof. Peng Wu

East China Normal University

Professor Peng Wu received his PhD in chemistry from Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT), Japan in 1996. He worked on zeolite catalysis at TIT as a guest researcher (1996 - 1997 and 1998 - 1999), and as COE researcher at Catalysis Research Center in Hokkaido University, Japan (1997 - 1998). He was a research associate at Yokohama National University, Japan (1999 - 2004). He was promoted to full professor at East China Normal University in 2004. He was a visiting professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France in 2010. His researches interests focus on the synthesis of new zeolite catalysts for green chemical processes, with particular interests in metallosilicate-related selective oxidation catalysis and applications.

Prof. Tom Willhammar 

Stockholm University

Dr. Tom Willhammar is a group leader at the Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry at Stockholm University. He received his Ph.D. in structural chemistry from Stockholm University in 2013, with a thesis focusing on electron crystallography. His research encircles electron microscopy, electron diffraction, and their applications in the structural characterization of materials, with a focus on zeolites and MOFs. Tom Willhammar is a member of the Structure Commission of the IZA.

Prof. Jun Xu

Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, CAS Dr. Jun Xu received his PhD (2007) from Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Since 2014, he is a professor at Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics (now is Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, CAS), where he is the director of the division of NMR for materials and chemistry. His research interest focuses on the structural characterization of zeolites and zeotype materials and study of reaction mechanisms in heterogeneous catalysis using solid-state NMR spectroscopy.

Prof. Jijing Xu

Jilin University

Jijing Xu received his Ph.D. in applied chemistry from Jilin University, China in 2011, and worked as a postdoctoral associate, assistant professor, and associate professor at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences during the period of 2011–2017. Since 2018, he has been working as a professor at the College of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, Jilin University, China. His research interests currently focus on advanced porous materials for metal-air battery and solid-state battery.

Prof. Jingxu Xie

University of Groningen

Jingxiu Xie is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Green Chemical Reaction Engineering unit at the Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen, University of Groningen. Her research group focuses on catalytic processes for gas conversion, particularly on the efficient utilization of various waste and circular carbon feedstock. She has been awarded the ERC Starting Grant 2024 to explore new reactor engineering and process intensification concepts for the conversion of CO2/CO/H2 to synthetic fuels. Jingxiu Xie attained her BSc from National University of Singapore in 2010 and her MSc in Chemical Engineering, cum laude from Eindhoven University of Technology in 2012.She received her PhD in heterogeneous catalysis from Utrecht University in 2017. Her PhD thesis was supervised by Prof. Krijn P. de Jong and focused on the Fischer–Trospch to Olefins technology. After working two years at BasCat, a UniCat BASF Jointlab in Berlin, and one year at the University of Oslo, she established her research group on catalytic processes for gas conversion in 2020.  

Prof. Toshiyuki Yokoi

Institute of Science Tokyo

Toshiyuki Yokoi received a Ph.D. in 2004 from Yokohama National University under the supervision of Prof. Takashi Tatsumi. Soon afterwards, he worked as an assistant professor of Prof. Tatsuya Okubo, The university of Tokyo, from 2004 to 2006. He was an Assistant Professor at Catalytic Chemistry Division, Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2006. In 2017, he was a research unit leader of “Nanospace Catalysis” Research Unit, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology. This unit focuses on nanospace materials such as zeolite and mesoporous materials, and aims to create nanospace catalyst that can make efficient use of diverse carbon resources, contributing to the realization of carbon neutrality. He was prompted to Associate Professor at April 2018, and then promoted to be a full Professor at July 2024. Since October 2024,He is a full Professor, Nanospace Catalysis Research Unit, Institute of Integrated Research, Institute of Science Tokyo. 

Prof. Jie-Peng Zhang 

Sun Yat-Sen University

Prof. Jie-Peng Zhang got his PhD at Sun Yat-Sen University, China under supervision of Prof. Xiao-Ming Chen, and was a postdoc in Prof. Kitagawa’s group in Kyoto University, Japan. His research focuses on structure-property relationship of adsorption/separation behaviors of molecule-based crystalline materials, especially porous coordination polymers (PCPs) or metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).

Prof. An-Min Zheng 

Wuhan University of Science and Technology

Dr. Anmin Zheng is currently the professor of Interdisciplinary Institute of NMR and Molecular Sciences (NMR-X) and the dean of School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Wuhan University of Science and Technology. He obtained the Ph.D. (2005) from the Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics (Chinese Academy of Sciences), and was promoted to full professor in 2012. His research interests is focusing on the reaction mechanism of heterogeneous catalysis by means of spectroscopic experiments and multiscale theoretical simulations.