Pablo Ballester studied Chemistry at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) where he completed the PhD degree in 1986. In 1987, he was a post-doctoral Associate with Prof. J. Rebek Jr. at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1988, after a one-year post-doctoral stay at UIB with Prof. J.M. Saá, he returned to the U. of Pittsburgh and moved to MIT with the Rebek’s group in 1989. In 1990, he was MIT Sloan P. Fellow. From 1991 to 2002, he held the positions of Assistant and Associate Professor at UIB and served as Secretary of the Chemistry Department, Vice-dean of the Faculty of Sciences and Head of Studies of Chemistry at UIB. He was also a visiting scientist at CUBIST Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Cambridge, USA in 1995-1996. In 2003 and while enjoying a sabbatical leave at the Scripps Research Institute (USA) with the rank of Associate Professor of Research he was awarded with an ICREA Research Professorship and joined ICIQ as Group Leader in 2004. He is the recipient of the 2012 Janssen Cilag Organic Chemistry Prize awarded by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry. He has been Visiting Professor at Scripps (2003) and at the University of Strasbourg (2014). He delivered the Inaugural Rebek-Sessler Lectureship in March 2016 at TSRI. In 2021, he was elected Member of the European Academy of Science. https://www.eurasc.org/. In 2022, he was distinguished as Chemistry Europe Fellow 2020/2021 for his outstanding achievements and contributions to Chemistry Europe  https://www.chemistryviews.org/fellows/. From February 2016 to July 2018, he served as ICIQ Vice-Director for BIST affairs. He is a member of the Academic Committee of ICIQ since its establishment. In July 2018, he was appointed Scientific Collaborator of the Spanish Agency for Research (AEI).

Fernanda was born in Santiago, Chile. She completed undergraduate and graduate studies at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC). Her PhD research focused on the formulation of theoretical frameworks for characterising chemical processes employing Density Functional Theory (DFT) and hybrid Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics (QM/MM) approaches.
After graduation, she joined the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Uppsala University, where she pursued training in biomolecular modelling. In 2015, she moved to the University of Oxford with a Royal Society Newton Fellowship, working in the area of computational organic chemistry. She then joined the School of Chemistry at Edinburgh with a Chancellor’s Fellowship before returning to Oxford in 2018 as Associate Professor in Chemistry.
Throughout her career, Fernanda has received various accolades, including the L'Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science award (2009), Pre-doctoral Fulbright scholarship (2010), Marie Curie Career Grant (2015, decline in lieu of the Newton Fellowship), MGMS Frank Blaney Award(2020), OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (2021), Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize (2021), and Novartis Early Career Award in Chemistry (2022). Her team develops computational methods to understand (bio)chemical reactivity and guide molecular design.

Prof. Juan R. Granja received the PhD in chemistry from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1988, under the guidance of Profs. Antonio Mouriño and Luis Castedo, working on the synthesis of main metabolites of vitamin D₂. After postdoctoral studies (1989-1990) in the group of Prof. Barry M. Trost at the Chemistry Department of Stanford University working on the synthesis of macrolides using Pd chemistry, he returned to the University of Santiago de Compostela as Assistant Professor (Ayudante de Universidad, Oct-1990). In 1995 he was promoted to associate professor (Professor Titular) and in 2006 to Full Professor (Catedrático de Universidad) after a national habilitation in 2005 in Barcelona.
In 1992 he started a long-term collaboration with Professor M. Reza Ghadiri at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in La Jolla, that included several stages at TSRI as visiting professor. As a consequence of this scientific collaboration, novel key studies on peptide chemistry were developed, such as self-assembling peptide nanotubes, supramolecular ion channels and antimicrobial agents or peptide-based self-replicating processes.
His research interest is devoted to the synthesis of complex structures by efficient methods, especially those based on supramolecular chemistry. One of his research programs is seeking for the synthesis of functional nanotubes by self-assembling process of cyclic peptides. Specially, he is interested on peptide nanotubes based on cyclic peptides that contains cyclic amino acids. The goal is to create tubular shaped structure with taylor-made properties and use their inner and outer surface features to create new tools for material sciences and biology.
At this respect, he is specially interested in creating this type of structures with pre-designed properties to interfere with the phospholipid membranes to change their biological properties. Therefore, transmembrane nanotubes, which simulates the natural protein channels in their transport properties and selectivity, or cytotoxic agents that destroy membrane properties and can be used as antibacterial or anticancer therapies are also envisaged. Finally, new systems to encapsulate different type of molecules are also seeking by his group.

Steve obtained an MChem degree from the University of Oxford where he began his research career with a Part II project in the group of Sir Prof. Jack Baldwin. He continued his research training with a PhD in natural product synthesis under the supervision of Prof. Tony Barrett before shifting focus to apply his synthetic skills to the realisation of mechanically interlocked non-natural products during post doctoral work with Prof. David Leigh at the University of Edinburgh where in 2007 he was appointed as Fixed Term Lecturer in Organic Chemistry. In 2008 he moved to Queen Mary with the award of a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship and in October 2009 he was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. In October 2014 the group moved to the University of Southampton where Steve took up the position of Associate Professor. In August 2017, Steve was promoted to Professor of Chemistry and in 2019 was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellowship. Recently, the group moved from Southampton to the University of Birmingham where Steve is Chair of Supramolecular Chemistry. Research in the Goldup Group focusses on the synthesis of novel mechanically interlocked molecules and their application as sensors, catalysts and materials.

Elena Pazos received her Ph.D. from the University of Santiago de Compostela, where she worked on luminescent probes of proteins involved in cancer under the supervision of Prof. José L. Mascareñas and Prof. M. Eugenio Vázquez. During her Ph.D. studies, she was a visiting student at Trinity College Dublin and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

In 2012, she joined Prof. Samuel I. Stupp at Northwestern University, where she worked for two years on the development of supramolecular peptide nanostructures for biomedical applications.

After her postdoctoral period, she joined Medcom Advance and from December 2015 to June 2017 she worked in the group of Prof. Ramón A. Álvarez-Puebla at the Chemical Technology Center of Catalonia as a Marie Curie researcher, focusing her research on the development of SERS-based probes.

In July 2017, she joined the Department of Chemistry of the Faculty of Science and CICA at the University of A Coruña as a junior group leader. She was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2019 and a Ramón y Cajal contract in 2020. At CICA, her group works on the development of luminescent probes and stimuli-responsive systems.

http://www.epazoslab.es 
Twitter: @elena_pazosch

Emilio M. Pérez is Senior Research Professor and Executive Director for Scientific Outreach at IMDEA Nanociencia. His research interests are focused in three areas: 1) development of new methods for chemical modification of carbon nanotubes; 2) covalent and noncovalent chemistry of 2D materials; and 3) supramolecular chemistry at the single-molecule level. He is alumnus of the Young Academy of Europe, Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures, (Tailor & Francis), and Associate Editor at Chemistry Squared. He has received several distinctions, including the IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists (2006), the Miguel Catalán Award (2014) and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid Foundation Prize for Science and Technology (2010).

Prof Anna Slater received her PhD in supramolecular chemistry from the University of Nottingham in 2011. Following postdoctoral positions in porphyrin self-assembly and porous organic cage materials she took up a Royal Society-EPSRC Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship in 2016 and a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2021, both at the University of Liverpool. She was promoted to Chair in 2022. Anna developed an interest in flow chemistry during her PDRA positions, recognizing that flow technology has a lot to offer the supramolecular chemist; exploiting flow processes for enhanced control of chemistry is now a central theme of her work. Her research interests include molecular materials, enabling technology and organic synthesis and self-assembly.

www.agslatergroup.com
Twitter @annagslater

Prof. Agnieszka Szumna leads a research team at the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. The research interests focus on the synthesis of molecular capsules containing biocompatible components in their structure. Her group also develops the use of these capsules as nanocontainers, supramolecular catalysts, drug transporters, components of porous materials, and protein surface stabilizers. Her research group uses a wide range of methods related to organic synthesis, mechanochemistry, crystallography, and magnetic resonance, and also makes extensive use of chiraloptic methods and quantum-mechanical computing.
Agnieszka Szumna comes from the East part of Poland near Lublin. She studied chemistry at the University of Warsaw, where, in 1996, she defended her master's thesis in the field of crystallography (with honors). She conducted her doctoral thesis on the synthesis and structure of macrocyclic amides as anion receptors under the supervision of prof. J. Jurczak at ICHO PAN and defended in 2001 (with honors). From 2001 to 2003, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA under the supervision of prof. J. Atwood. One of the major achievements of this period was the recognition by Chemical & Engineering News of its publication on ion-pair receptors as one of the 100 most important achievements of 2002. She obtained her habilitation in 2010 based on a series of works entitled "Chiral Molecular Containers - Synthesis, Structure and Complexing Properties” and the academic title of professor in 2019. Prof. Szumna managed many grants financed by national agencies grant and the ITN grant of the Horizon2020 program. She is involved in several additional services outside her parent institution, like being a Head of the Scientific Council for Research Development of Torun University or a member of the scientific team of the Polish Society of Autoimmunolgical Diseases. For her scientific work, she was awarded several national-level awards and the Marie Skłodowska Curie-Wilhelm Klemm award (the joint award of the Polish PTChem and German Chemical Society, GDCh).

Max von Delius is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the University of Ulm. He studied chemistry at Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) in Erlangen  and at Louis-Pasteur University in Strasbourg (France). Max obtained his PhD from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) and was a Leopoldina postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto (Canada). The Delius lab is aiming to to expand the toolbox of systems and materials chemistry and to achieve supramolecular control over important processes such as (dissipative) self-assembly or (photo)catalysis. Max was awarded the Cram-Lehn-Pedersen Prize and a Starting Grant by the European Research Council.

www.deliusgroup.net
Twitter: @mvdelius