Invited Speakers

Dr. Ling PENG

Aix-Marseille Université – CNRS, CINaM

2024 André Collet prize laureate

Dr. Ling Peng carried her undergraduate study in polymer chemistry with Prof. Chen Rongshi at Nanjing University in China, her PhD program in organic chemistry with Prof. Albert Eschenmoser at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, and her postdoctoral research in pharmacy with Prof. Maurice Goeldner at Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg in France. She obtained a CNRS position in 1997. She is currently Directrice de Recherche de Classe Exceptionnelle (DRCE) and head of a research team at CINaM (Aix-Marseille University). Dr. Ling PENG has been working actively at the interface of chemistry and biology, and in particular, developing functional dendrimers for biomedical applications, molecular probes for exploring biological events and nucleoside analogues for drug discovery. Her research team is labelled by La Ligue contre Le Cancer in France since 2016. Dr. Ling PENG is a Distinguished Member of the French Chemical Society since 2019. She was awarded with the Dr et Mme Henri Labbé Prize of the French Academy of Sciences in 2017 and the Grand Prize of the French Chemical Society Sud PACA in 2024.

Dr. Clément FALAISE

Institut Lavoisier de Versailles (ILV)

2024 Christiane Dietrich-Buchecker prize laureate

Clément Falaise obtained his PhD degree in 2014 at the University of Lille, under the supervision of Thierry Loiseau (UCCS), and he was working on the coordination chemistry of tetravalent actanides. He then joined the group of May Nyman (Oregon State University) where his work focused on understanding the mechanisms of formation of uranyl nano-buildings in aqueous solution, then the group of Stéphane Cordier (ISCR) to develop supramolecular systems based on luminescent clusters. Then, he joined the CNRS in 2017 at the Lavoisier Institute of Versailles where his research is focused on the physico-chemistry of inorganic polyanions (polyoxometallates, metal clusters, boron clusters) in aqueous solution. His work has been promoted through around sixty publications and various research contracts (ANR, MOMEMTUM-CNRS, EMERGENCE@INC). Since 2021, he has been a member of the national committee for scientific research (CoNRS, section 14).

Dr. Andrey KLYMCHENKO

Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Strasbourg

Dr. Andrey Klymchenko obtained his PhD degree in 2003 from Kyiv National University. He worked as post-doctoral fellow in the University of Strasbourg and Catholic University of Leuven. Then, he joined CNRS in 2006, received CNRS Bronze Medal in 2010 and was promoted to Director of Research in 2014. In 2015, he obtained the ERC consolidator grant BrightSens to work on fluorescent nanoparticles for ultrasensitive detection of cancer markers. In 2021, he received Prix du Dr et de Mme Henri LABBE from French Academy of Sciences and was elected member of Academia Europaea. He is leading the “Photoactive Materials and Bioimaging” group at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Strasbourg. His research interests include functional fluorescent molecules and nanomaterials for biosensing, imaging and in vitro diagnostics. He is a co-founder of start-up BrightSens Diagnostics focused on molecular in vitro diagnostics based on fluorescent nanoparticles and AstraNICE dedicated to fluorescent biomaterials for image-guided surgery. He is a co-author of over 260 peer-reviewed articles and 12 patents.

 Dr. Anne NIJS

Managing Editor of ChemistryEurope

Editor of EurJOC

Anne Nijs studied chemistry at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Germany) and obtained her PhD in 2011 under the supervision of Carsten Bolm working in the area of asymmetric transition-metal catalysis. She joined Wiley-VCH in September 2011 to work for Chemistry—A European Journal. In 2016, she moved to the European Journal of Organic Chemistry as Deputy Editor and since July 2018 she has been serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. In 2024, she took over the role of Managing Editor of ChemistryEurope.