invited speakers

Dr. Mihail Barboiu

Institut Européen des Membranes, Université Montpellier

Prix André Collet

Mihail Barboiu received his PhD in 1998 from University of Montpellier. He is DR1 CNRS Research Leader at the Institut Europeen des Membranes in Montpellier. A major focus of his research is Dynamic Constitutional Chemistry toward adaptive biomimetic membranes. Dr Barboiu has received in 2004, the EURYI Award in Chemistry and in 2015, the RSC Surfaces and Interfaces Award and Prix André Collet 2024, Groupe de Chimie Supramoléculaire, DCO, Société Chimique de Francefor the development of Artificial water channels.
Artificial Water Channels may be most innovative new idea for water purification membranes and aqueous separations.  

http://rsc.li/water-channels

https://iem.umontpellier.fr/en/mihail-barboiu/

Pr. Nicolas Giuseppone

Institut Charles Sadron, Univ. Strasbourg

Prix Henry Le Chatelier

Dr Hennie Valkenier-van Dijk

Engineering of Molecular NanoSystems, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Be

Invited speaker

Hennie Valkenier studied Chemistry at the University of Groningen (NL) and obtained her PhD from this university in 2011 with a thesis on Molecular Electronics. After a year of teaching in West-Africa, she joined the group of Tony Davis at the University of Bristol as a postdoc to develop transmembrane transporters for chloride.
In 2015, she moved to the Engineering of Molecular NanoSystems laboratory at the Université libre de Bruxelles, where she worked for a year on the functionalisation of gold nanoparticles, before returning to transmembrane transport research funded by an FNRS fellowship. In 2018, she has obtained a permanent position as FNRS Research Associate at the Université libre de Bruxelles and was awarded an ERC starting grant to develop new classes of anion transporters. Since 2025 she is also an investigator of the WEL Research Institute.

 https://emns.polytech.ulb.be/en/team/hennie-valkenier

Pr. Michaele Hardie

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Leeds, UK

 Invited speaker

Pr. Michaele Hardie : "I did my undergraduate degree and PhD at the University of Melbourne in Australia. My PhD (1996) was on the synthesis and X-ray structure determination of coordination polymers working under the supervision of Richard Robson and Bernard Hoskins. I did post-doctoral work at Melbourne, University of Toledo USA and Monash University, Australia before being appointed lecturer in inorganic chemistry at the University of Leeds in 2001, where I am currently Professor of Supramolecular Chemistry. I was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Corday-Morgan Prize in 2011 for most meritorious contributions to chemistry (40 yo or under). I have recently held a visiting professorship at Osaka University (2017).
My current research interests are in the area of metallo-supramolecular chemistry and we are particularly interested in the self-assembly of discrete nano-scale metallo-supramolecular cages, and in coordination polymers. Discrete cages often have polyhedral or prismatic structures and tend to feature significant internal space. Hence such assemblies may have potential applications as nano-scale reaction vessels. Coordination polymers are crystalline metal-ligand systems with infinite structures such as chains, helices, grids and 3D lattices. MOFs are a class of coordination polymers with 3D framework structures that are robust and porous. These materials may be useful for a number of applications, including molecular separations, catalysis and molecular storage."

https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/4189/professor-michaele-hardie