Plenary and Keynote speakers

Plenary Speakers:

Prof. Ramón Martínez-Mañez, Universitat Politècnica de València

Chromo-fluorogenic Probes and Advanced Sensing Materials

Dr. Ramón Martínez-Máñez is full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) and Head of the University Institute of Molecular Recognition and Technologic Development (IDM) of Valencia, Spain. He is also Scientific Director of the Biomedical Research Center Network in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN) and Group leader of a PROMETEO project for groups of excellence in the Comunidad Valenciana. He is an active researcher in the field of supramolecular chemistry of hybrid organic-inorganic nanostructured gated materials. He has published more than 320 scientific papers in international journals and holds 16 patents. His research articles have been cited over 13000 times (h index 57). He has co-authored one scientific reference book published by Wiley in 2010 and is also co-author of 15 book chapters. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge, UK. Recently he became Chairman of the editorial advisory board of the journal ChemistryOpen and a member of the International Advisory Board of the journals Chem.Asian.J. and Chem.Plus.Chem. published by Wiley-VCH. He is also Coordinator of the Doctorate program of Chemistry at the UPV. Recently he received the Research Excellence Award 2016 from Real Sociedad Española de Química.

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Prof. Valèrie Heitz, Universitè de Strasbourg

Multicomponent systems with porphyrins: switchable nanocontainers and molecular theranostic agents

Valérie Heitz is Professor at the Chemistry Department of the University of Strasbourg. She obtained her PhD with Prof. J.P. Sauvage in 1992 and completed her education as postdoctoral researcher with Pr. A. Harriman (University of Austin, USA). Since 2010, she is the leader of the “Laboratoire de Synthèse des Assemblages Moléculaires Multifonctionnels”. She was co-organizer of two international meetings in Strasbourg, the 19^th ISPPCC in 2011 and the 10^th ISMSC in 2015. She belongs to the International Centre for Frontier Research in Chemistry (ic-FRC) in Strasbourg. Her main interests include supramolecular coordination chemistry, the development of multicomponent systems incorporating porphyrins, dynamic cages as functional nanocontainers and multifunctional molecules for theranostic applications. She is co-author of 100 publications in international journals.

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