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26TH CONGRESS AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF

Plenary and Keynote Speakers for IUCr 2023

Plenary Speakers

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IUCr is thrilled to announce confirmation of three world-leading experts in their field will headline the 2023 meeting in Melbourne.

Plenary speakers confirmed for IUCr 2023 include Professor Hideo Hosono from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dr Junko Yano from Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory and Professor Mark Spackman from the University of Western Australia.

Hideo

Professor Hideo Hosono

Tokyo Institute of Technology and National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Junko

Dr Junko Yano

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
United States of America
Mark

Professor Mark Spackman

University of Western Australia
Australia

Keynote Speakers

The International Program Committee are excited to announce the Keynote Speakers who will be joining us at IUCr 2023 in Melbourne, Australia.

Our Keynote Speakers join us from almost every corner of the globe and cover many different areas from the Crystallography field.

Dr Mois I. Aroyo

Bilbao Spain
Spain

Dr Daniel Bowron

STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab
United Kingdom

Prof Graeme Day

University of Southampton
United Kingdom

Prof Shanti Deemyad

University of Utah
USA

Dr Ricardo Donizeth dos Reis

Brazilian Synchrotron Light Lab
Brazil

Dr Panče Naumov

New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD)
United Arab Emirates

Prof Joanne Etheridge

Monash University
Australia

Mr Andy Gotz

ESRF
France

Dr Simon Grabowsky

University of Bern
Switzerland

Prof T.N. Guru Row

Indian Institute of Science
India

Dr Yoshiki Higuchi

University of Hyogo
Japan

Prof Masako Kato

Kwansei Gakuin University
Japan

Prof Angel Martin Pendas

University of Oviedo
Spain

A/Prof Admir Masic

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr Airlie McCoy

Univesity of Cambridge
United Kingdom

Prof Lilo Pozzo

University of Washington
USA

Dr Clarina R Dela Cruz

Oak Ridge Natioal Laboratory
USA

Prof Ian Robinson

Brookhaven National Laboratory
USA

Dr Silvie Švarcová

Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Czech Republic

Prof Consiglia Tedesco

University of Salerno
Italy

Dr Thomas Terwilliger

Los Alamos National Laboratory
USA

Dr Elias Vlieg

Radboud University
Netherlands

Dr Alexander Wlodawer

National Cancer Institute
USA

Dr Winnie Wong-Ng

National Institute of Standards and Technology
USA

Dr Oksana Zaharko

Paul Scherrer Institute
Switzerland

Prof Peijun Zhang

University of Oxford
United Kingdom

Prof Xiaodong Zhang

Francis Crick Institute
United Kingdom

Prof Stephen K. Burley

RCSB PROTEIN DATA BANK
USA

Prof Hoi Ri Moon

Ewha Woman's University

Key Dates

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Accommodation booking deadline 17 July 2023
IUCr 2023 pre-Congress workshops 21 & 22 August 2023
IUCr 2023 Congress 23-29 August 2023

Professor Hideo Hosono

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Professor Hideo Hosono is renowned for his work on the creation of novel functional materials. Some of Hideo’s noteworthy achievements include the design of transparent oxide semiconductors such as Indium gallum zinc oxide (IGZO) and their thin-film-transistor (TFT) applications for the state-of the art displays (OLED-TVs are driven by IGZO-TFTs), creation of room temperature (RT) stable electrides and their application to catalysts for ammonia synthesis, and discovery of high-Tc iron-based superconductors. Hideo is an honorary and professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology and a group leader and distinguished fellow at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) of the National Institute for Materials Science. He received a Ph.D. in Applied Chemistry from Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1982, and became a professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1999 via the Nagoya Institute of Technology and Institute for Molecular Science at Okazaki.  He is a recipient of various honors including the Japan Prize, von Hippel Prize (MRS), J. McGroddy Prize (APS), Jan Raychman Prize (SID), Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy, Thomson Reuter Citation Laureate and a foreign fellow of the Royal Society.

Dr Junko Yano

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Dr Junko Yano’s research has focused on problems of importance to energy, especially renewable energy sources. Her group uses X-ray spectroscopy and crystallography to understand biological and inorganic systems. For example, her lab has explored how in photosynthesis, plants use light to split water using a catalytic Mn4Ca cluster, and converting light energy into chemical energy. Since the advent of X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs), her group has been using these facilities to study the catalytic systems, under functional conditions at room temperature. These methods allow one to study structure-function relationships by following the reactions in real time and the effect of the environment of the protein on the active site. Junko is a member of the Liquid Sunlight Alliance (LiSA), where she studies artificial photosynthetic systems, combining her interests in natural photosynthesis/metalloenzymes with inorganic systems that can be used to engineer practical devices. Since 2015, Junko has held the position of Senior Scientist, and Division Deputy for Science (since 2020) in the Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA.

Professor Mark Spackman

University of Western Australia, Australia

Emeritus Professor Mark Spackman is well known around the world for his development of tools and methods from computational chemistry to inform aspects of modern crystallography, especially intermolecular interactions and crystal packing. These research tools have been implemented in the CrystalExplorer software package, now used by thousands of students and researchers worldwide. Mark is an emeritus professor at the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth, where he received his PhD in 1980. Following postdoctoral stints with R. F. Stewart (Pittsburgh), E. N. Maslen (Perth) and B. M. Craven (Pittsburgh), and an academic appointment at the University of New England (NSW, Australia), he returned to UWA in 2004. In 2013 he was a joint recipient with Carlo Gatti (Milan) of the Gregori Aminoff Prize for Crystallography by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and was awarded the Lawrence Bragg Medal of the Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand in 2017.

Dr. Alexander Wlodawer

NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE
USA

Dr. Alexander Wlodawer is a structural biologist investigating the relationship between protein structure and function, mainly by high-resolution X-ray diffraction, but also by cryo-EM. Some of his areas of interest include elucidating structural features of macromolecules that could explain their importance to understanding cancer, AIDS, and Covid-19. Dr. Wlodawer received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1974. Having completed his postdoctoral training at Stanford University, he joined the National Bureau of Standards in 1976, and moved to the National Cancer Institute in 1987, where he is a Senior Investigator at the Center for Structural Biology. He is Doctor Honoris Causa of the Technical University of Lodz, Poland, a Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and an ACA Fellow. He received the NCI Mentor of Merit Award and was awarded the Heyrovsky Honorary Medal by the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Dr Panče Naumov

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI (NYUAD)
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Dr. Panče Naumov is a full professor of chemistry with tenure at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), a Global Network Professor of Chemistry at the New York University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, with a cross-appointment at New York University's Molecular Design Institute, a Director of the NYUAD Center for Smart Engineering Materials (CSEM) and a leader of the Smart Materials Lab (SML) at NYUAD.  The Naumov's Smart Materials Lab is the leading research team in chemistry and materials science in the UAE with an output, according to Nature Index, that accounts for about 40-60% of both the number and fractional count of the high-impact publications in chemistry in the country each year. He also is a former fellow of the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

Dr. Naumov holds a Ph.D. in chemistry and materials science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (2004) and a BSc from Ss Cyril & Methodius University in Macedonia. Before his appointment at NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU, he was a research fellow at the Japanese National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and faculty at Osaka University and Kyoto University in Japan. His research portfolio includes over 270 publications. At conferences or other scientific meetings, he has presented about 400 times and given over 90 invited talks at various institutions. Since 2012, he has supervised over 60 students, including Ph.D. theses, undergraduate projects, and capstone projects. He is an active reviewer of about 100 international journals and over ten national and international funding agencies. He is a member of the editorial or advisory boards of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, Chemistry - A European Journal, Smart Molecules, and ChemNanoMat, and a guest editor of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, among other journals.

Dr. Naumov was the founding chair, current secretary, and treasurer of the Industrial Liaisons of the UAE Chapter of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society. He is also a founding President of the Emirates Crystallographic Society (ECS).  Among other positions, he is a councilor of the European Crystallographic Association (ECA), a consultant and a member of the Commission on Structural Chemistry for the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), a member of the Natural Sciences Advisory Board and the Science in Media Committee of the Emirates Science Council. He is a fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).

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