Advances in Synthesis, Catalysis, and Molecular Design (Chemistry2027)

University of Münster, Germany;Armido Studer studied at the ETH Zurich where he earned his doctorate in 1995. He then spent 1.5 years at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, as a postdoc, and obtained his post-doctoral lecturing qualification at the ETH Zurich in 2000. Following this, he accepted a professorship at the University of Marburg. Since 2004, Armido Studer has been a Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Münster. He received numerous international research awards, most recently the 2026 Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation. In 2016 and 2024, he was awarded ERC Advanced Grants. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea, the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.

Organisch-Chemisches Institut, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany ;Prof. Dr. A. Stephen K. Hashmi is a Professor of Organic Chemistry at Heidelberg University, Germany, where he has held the Chair of Organic Chemistry since 2007. He completed his doctoral and habilitation studies in organic chemistry and conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford University. His research focuses on organic synthesis, highly strained organic compounds, and homogeneous catalysis with a focus on gold catalysis. Throughout his career, he has received numerous prestigious fellowships, awards, and international distinctions, including the ORCHEM Prize, Hector Research Prize, and Tan Kah Kee Chemistry Lectureship. He has also held several academic leadership positions at Heidelberg University and has served on the editorial and advisory boards of leading chemistry journals. He is the author of more than 550 scientific publications.

University of Bologna, Italy;Paolo Melchiorre has been Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bologna since 2022. He began his academic career at the University of Bologna and subsequently spent over a decade conducting independent research at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ, Spain), where he led a research group from 2009 to 2022. His scientific activity focuses on the development of new catalytic strategies for the sustainable synthesis of chiral molecules of pharmaceutical relevance, integrating organocatalysis, photocatalysis, and enzyme engineering to control light-activated radical reactivity.

Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia;Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia ;Prof. Dr. Valentine P. Ananikov is a head of laboratory of Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry at the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences, a Member of European Academy (Academia Europaea), a Honorary Academician of National Academy of Sciences of Bashkortostan Republic, a Foreign Member of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. Ananikov has been recognized with numerous awards and honors, including the International Organometallics Distinguished Author Award Lectureship by American Chemical Society, Balandin Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of catalysis, Markovnikov Prize by Tatarstan Republic for distinguished contribution to organic chemistry, the Gravity International Prize for outstanding achievements in artificial intelligence, Distinguished Artificial Intelligence Scholar Award by National Academy of Artificial Intelligence. His research interests span AI in chemistry, catalysis, nanotechnology, and organic synthesis, among others.