Leipzig University, Germany
Babes-Bolyai University (UBB), Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Wuhan University of Technology (WHUT), Wuhan, China

Evamarie Hey-Hawkins was Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Leipzig University from 1993 to 2023. After her retirement, she joined the Institute of Bioanalytical Chemistry (BBZ) at Leipzig University, Germany. She has published more than 640 scientific articles, given over 400 lectures worldwide and received several prestigious awards including three honorary doctorates and the Karl Ziegler Prize. More than 100 doctoral students have graduated from her group.

Her scientific interests are in the field of organophosphorus chemistry, biologically active inorganic compounds, heterometallic transition metal complexes and catalysis. Presently, she has several leading position, including acting as vice president of the DGBNCT, Chair of the IUPAC/German Central Committee for Chemistry (DZfCh), project leader at UBB, Cluj-Napoca, Romania and since April 2026, she has a position as Distinguished Professor at Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China.

Philippe Leclère received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Liège (Belgium) in 1994. He joined the University of Mons in 1995 as a research fellow. From 2001 to 2004, he worked as a research associate and served as a research coordinator at the Materia Nova Research Center. During this period, he spent one year (2003) in the group of E.W. (Bert) Meijer at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands.
In Oct 2004, he became Research Associate and in Oct 2014 Senior Research Associate of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FRS - FNRS) in the group of Roberto Lazzaroni at the University of Mons (UMONS). In October 2020, he became Research Director of FRS-FNRS.

In Oct 2021, he became Professor at UMONS creating and heading the Laboratory for Physics of Nanomaterials and Energy (LPNE) at the Physics Department. In Oct 2022, he became Full Professor.
Since 2003, he is still a visiting scientist at the Institute of Complex Molecular Systems at TU/e.
His research interests mostly deal with the
• Characterization by means of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) techniques of the morphology and the nanoscale properties (such as electrical and mechanical properties) of organic and hybrid systems including polymer blends, nanocomposites, block copolymers, liquid crystals, hydrogels, and supramolecular (nano)structures (build by self-assembly of functional (macro)molecules). These systems are mainly studied for their use in organic electronics and energy harvesting devices (field effect transistors, organic light emitting diodes, (hybrid) photovoltaic solar cells, batteries, nanodielectrics, and (bio)sensors), automotive applications, cosmetics, and biological-based materials such as bioglue (recombinant proteins), hydrogels, bacterias, and cells.
•Characterization of the piezo and flexoelectric properties of piezoelectric polymers films, nanofibers, and nanocomposites.
•Development of novel SPM techniques (such as in situ electrochemical cell, in situ photoconductive atomic force microscopy, …) and methodologies to quantitatively determine mechanical and electrical properties of polymeric materials and nanocomposites at the nanoscale.
•Development of Machine Learning algorithms (Python codes) for SPM data clustering, model optimization, and deep learning processes.

He is (co)author of over 210 papers and many chapter books in international peer-reviewed journals (Hirsch factor: 47). He is currently President of the Royal Belgian Society for Microscopy (RBSM), President of PromOptica, President of NanoWal.

Oliver studied chemistry at the University of Mainz and UC Berkeley. Following research projects at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, BASF Ludwigshafen, and NUS Singapore, he moved to Switzerland for his doctoral studies. In 2015, he received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from ETH Zurich in the group of Prof. F. Diederich. After postdoctoral research with Prof. S. I. Stupp at Northwestern University, he established his independent research group at Humboldt University Berlin. In 2023, he was appointed Professor of Functional Organic Materials at the University of Freiburg. Since 2025, he has held the Chair of Organic Chemistry as Full Professor at the University of Cologne. His current research focuses on the design and synthesis of supramolecular materials, photomagnetic molecular switches, and covalent organic frameworks (COFs) with applications in sensing and battery materials.

Araceli G. Campaña was born in Lucena (Córdoba, Spain). Following a degree in Chemistry at the Universidad de Granada, she stayed for a PhD with Prof. Juan M. Cuerva and Prof. J. Enrique Oltra (2004-2008) working on radical chemistry mediated by Ti(III) and its combination with other transition metals and with water. In 2009, she moved to Madrid to join the group of Prof. Diego J. Cárdenas at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid where she carried out Density Functional Theory (DFT) -based calculations to explain synthetic mechanisms and experimental findings on organometallic reactions. In October 2009 she joined the group of Prof. David A. Leigh at the University of Edinburgh, to work on the design, synthesis and operation of new molecular machines involving dynamic covalent chemistry. In 2012, she was appointed as “Juan de la Cierva” postdoctoral researcher at the Universidad de Granada in the group of "Organic Chemistry and Molecular Electronics, FQM367".
 

From January 2015, she was appointed as “Ramón y Cajal” researcher at the Department of Organic Chemistry of the University of Granada. Recently, she received the ERC-Starting Grant awarded by the European Research Council to carry out the project “Design, synthesis, study and applications of distorted nanographenes”.

Chemist, material scientists, lab manager and team leader with 20 years of experience in R&D of materials for optoelectronics and energy conversion.

Originated from the North of France, Guillaume Wantz obtained his Master degree from the Graduate School of Chemistry and Physics of Bordeaux (ENSCBP) in 2001 including a thesis work at Philips Research (Eindhoven, NL). He received his Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bordeaux in 2004 working on Polymer Light Emitting Diodes. He was Assistant Professor at the University of Bordeaux working on Organic Field Effect Transistors. He has been appointed as tenure Associate Professor at the Bordeaux Institute of Technology since 2006. Appointed at the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) in 2016. Promoted Professeur des Universités in 2021. His research interest is on Organic Electronics with a focus on polymer photovoltaic solar cells. He is co-founder of HEOLE, to develop OPV solar sails for boats, flying zeppelin, and more.
He has published multiple research papers in international journals.