Stef Stienstra is a strategic and creative Consultant in Biomedical Science with a parallel career as a Commander of the reserve of the Royal Dutch Navy. For the Dutch Armed Forces he has responsibility for the counter measures in CBNRe threats and (Medical) consequence management both in a military and a civilian (terrorism) setting. He is a strategic functional specialist for “Health & Environment” of the 1-Civil-Military-Interaction Command (1-CMI) of the Dutch Armed Forces and for 2015 also in the NATO Response Force (NRF), which is in 2015 the responsibility of the 1-German-Netherlands-Corps (1-GNC). In his civil career he works internationally as Consultant or as Scientific Supervisory Board Member for several medical and biotech companies, merely involved in biodefense. He is also a Visiting Professor for Punjab University in Pakistan and Rhein-Waal University in Germany. He has completed his studies in Medicine and in Biochemistry at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands and has extensive practical experience in cell biology, immuno-hematology, biodefense and transfusion medicine. His natural business acumen and negotiation competence helps to initiate new successful businesses, often created out of unexpected combinations of technologies. His good understanding of abstract science combined with excellent skills in the communication of scientific matters to non-specialists, helps him with strategic consulting at top level management.

Ebola

Anna Chrostowska obtained her PhD degree in Chemistry in 1986 at the Warsaw University of Technology (Poland). She started her academic career at the Agriculture University of Warsaw in 1984. In 1991 she moved to the University of Pau where she is working as professor at the Research Institute on Analytical Sciences and Physical Chemistry for Environment and Materials (IPREM). She is teaching organic and organometallic chemistry for license and master students. Her research is centered on experimental and theoretical studies of the electronic structure and reactivity of organic and organometallic species in the gas phase. She published over 80 scientific papers, supervised fifteen PhD candidates and was invited by different German, Japanese, Chinese, Polish, Canadian or American Universities. A. Chrostowska was a dean of the Chemistry department, the president of the research council of sciences at the University of Pau and she is actually a director of the Doctoral School “Exact Sciences and their Applications” (2011-2020).

Analytical Sciences, Physical Chemistry and Organic and Organometallic Chemistry.

Józef Oleksyszyn has recived his Ph.D. (1974-1977) and D.S. (doctor of sciences, habilitation, 1978-1986) from Faculty of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Technology. Currently he is professor of biochemistry at that place. Two postdoctoral scholarship. The first (1982-1984) at Department of Chemistry, Michigen University with prof. Arthur Ashe and the second one at Georgia Institute of Technology with prof. James C. Powers. During the period of 1990-2000 has been working in few biotechnology companies including CORTECH Inc., (Denver,CO), OsteoArthritis Inc., (Boston, MA) and DYAX (Boston, MA), at positions from research scientist to the Director of Chemical Sciences. One of the compounds, inhibitor of human neutrophil elastase, designed and synthesized by him went to the clinical trial (Cortech). He discovered an amidoalkylation reaction of trivalent phosphorus derivatives, named in literature sometimes “Oleksyszyn reaction”. In prof. Powers lab he discovered a new class of selective and potent, serine protease inhibitors – diaryl 1-aminoalkylphosphonates. In 2002 he returned to Wrocław Technology University, where he build-up the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Microbiology that he has been headed during the period 2006-2011. His research resulted in more than 70 publications in reputed journals and more than 50 patents and patents applications, including 8 USA patents. His is a member of American Chemical Society. He has been serving as editorial member of several reputed journal like Journal Anti-cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry, American Journal of Cancer Prevention, Journal of Pharmacological & Biomedical Analysis, Cell Biology:Research & Therapy, and expert Revivers for several Journals.

His research interest include a new approaches for the anticancer therapies, enzyme inhibitors as a new drugs, including new antibacterial drugs, inhibitors of proteolytic enzymes as a new drug generation.

Dina Mendonça is currently Auxiliary Professor at Chemistry Department, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal. She earned her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Beira Interior in 1997. Since then she teaches Organic Chemistry, General Chemistry and recently Plant Biology. She developed research on Natural Products in FibEnTech-UBI research unit and developed national projects financed by FCT in the field of Natural Products specially on Angolan medicinal plants. She has published 20 papers in reputed journals.

Her research interests include organic chemistry, natural products isolation, spectroscopic elucidation and biological activities.

Gerd Kaupp studied chemistry at the University of Würzburg, Germany and had postdoctoral appointments at Ames, Iowa, Lausanne, and Freiburg i. Br, where he became appointed as associate professor. From there he was appointed full professor at the University of Oldenburg in 1982. He guided a successful research group with various projects and cooperation with numerous industries and worldwide academic research groups. He served as guest professor for three international universities. Prof. Kaupp is now a retired member at the University of Oldenburg and pursues his scientific interests also with consulting. His expertise is in chemical kinetics, laser photochemistry, waste-free benign syntheses and productions, solid-state chemistry, reactive milling, mechanochemistry, atomic force microscopy AFM, scanning near-field optical microscopy SNOM, nanoscratching, nanoindentation, standardization in nanomechanics, and bionics. He is keynote speaker in these fields, published numerous scientific papers and books and is inventor of patents in solid-state and environmental chemistry.

Chemical kinetics, laser photochemistry, waste-free benign syntheses and productions, solid-state chemistry, reactive milling, mechanochemistry, atomic force microscopy AFM, scanning near-field optical microscopy SNOM, nanoscratching, nanoindentation, standardization in nanomechanics, bionics and solid-state and environmental chemistry.

Yongda Zhang was born in Zhejiang province, China. He received his B.A. degree in chemistry from Hangzhou University in 1994. He earned his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Fudan University under the guidance of Prof. Dawei Ma (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Prof. Fenggang Tao (Fudan University) in 2000. After postdoctoral research with Prof. Alan J. Kennan and additional postdoctoral training with Prof. Tomislav Rovis at Colorado State University, he joined Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Ridgefield, CT, where currently he is Principal Scientist.

His research interests include design and development of innovative and practical processes for large-scale production of active pharmaceutical ingredients and synthetic methodology.

Tofik Nagiev is a Vice-president of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Director of Research Center of “Azerbaijan National Encyclopedia” and Department chief of Nagiev Institute of Catalysis and inorganic chemistry of ANAS. The Professor of the department of the physical and colloid chemistry of Baku State University. His main publications are listed below: 1. M.F.Nagiev and T.M.Nagiev "The Conjugate Dehydrogenation of Hydrocarbons", Book: Advances in Chemistry-133, Editor Hugh M. Hulbert, 1974. pp. 137-147, USA. 2. Tofik M. Nagiev. Coherent Synchronized Oxidation reactions by Hydrogen Peroxide. Elsevier. Amsterdam. 2007, p.340. Monography 3. T.M.Nagiev. Chapter. "Physicochemical Peculiarities of Iron Porphyryn-Containing Electrodesign Catalase and Peroxidase-Type Biomimetic Sensor "Book" Biomimetic Based Applications", Preface IX, Chapter4, 2011, p.105-123 under the editorship of Anne George, Croatia.

He is professor of colloidal chemistry Coherent Synchronized Oxidation reactions by Hydrogen Peroxide

Professor Ayman El-Faham received his Ph.D in 1991 as a joint project between Alexandria University and University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U. S. A. under the supervision of Prof. L. A. Carpino, where he worked on the synthesis of new protecting groups for both solution and solid phase peptide synthesis. Prof. El-Faham involved in the development of new coupling reagents based on 1-hydroxy-7-azabenzotriazole during his postdoctoral (1992-1999) at the UMASS in Prof. Carpino’s Lab. He holds many patents in this field. He joined the Barcelona Science Park during the summer of 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011 worked with Prof. Fernando Albericio in the development of a new family of coupling reagents. He acted as Head of the Chemistry Department, Beirut Arab University, Lebanon (2000-2004) and as Vice Dean, Faculty of Science Alexandria University (2010-2011); currently he is Professor of Organic and Peptide Chemistry, at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Email: [email protected]

Prof. El-Faham involved in the development of new coupling reagents based on 1-hydroxy-7-azabenzotriazole during his postdoctoral (1992-1999)

Alexander O. Terent’ev was born in Moscow, in 1973. He received his M.S. in Chemistry of Biologically Active Compounds from D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Moscow. PhD degree (2000) and D.Sc. degree (2009) in Organic Chemistry in N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS. 2011 – Professor D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia. 2016 – Professor RAS. Head of laboratory in N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS, Head of laboratory in All-Russian Research Institute of Phytopathology. His interests are organic chemistry, medical and agricultural chemistry, chemical technology. He published 3 chapters in books, 100 research papers, and 25 patents. Email: [email protected]

His interests are organic chemistry, medical and agricultural chemistry, chemical technology. He published 3 chapters in books, 100 research papers, and 25 patents.

Miguel Yus was born in Zaragoza (Spain) in 1947, and received his BSc (1969), MSc (1971) and PhD (1973) degrees from the University of Zaragoza. After spending two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim a.d. Ruhr he returned to Spain to the University of Oviedo where he became associate professor in 1977, being promoted to full professor in 1987 at the same university. In 1988 he moved to a chair in Organic Chemistry at the University of Alicante. Professor Yus has been visiting professor at different institutions and universities among them ETH-Zentrum, Oxford, Harvard, Uppsala, Marseille, Tucson, Okayama, Paris, Strasbourg, Bolonia, Sassari, Tokyo and Kyoto. He is co-author of more than 600 papers (and five patents) and has supervised more than 60 Doctoral Theses (already presented), and delivered more than 200 lectures, most of them abroad. At March 2017 his h index is 65. Among others, he has received the Spanish-French Prize (1999), twice the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Prize (Okayama 2000, Kyoto 2007), the Stiefvater Memorial Lectureship Award (Lincoln 2001), the Nagase Science and Technology Foundation fellowship (Kyoto 2003), the Cellchem Lectureship (Sheffield 2005), the Singenta Lectureship (Basel 2007), the Fundeun-Iberdrola Prize (Alicante 2007), the Serratosa Lectureship (Barcelona 2010), the Conferencia Lourenço-Madinaveitia (Lisboa 2012), the Medalla Felix Serratosa from the RSEQ (Madrid 2012), being also named recently Active Academician from the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Salzburg 2012). Professor Yus has been in the Advisory Board of 20 international journals, among others, Tetrahedron, Tetrahedron Letters, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Chemistry Letters, The Chemical Record, Current Organic Chemistry, Current Chemical Biology, Jordan Journal of Chemistry, Applied Sciences, and Trends in Organic Chemistry, being also Editor-in-Chief of Letters in Organic Chemistry and Open Chemistry, as well as Regional Editor of The World Journal of Chemistry. His current research interest is focused on the preparation of very reactive functionalized organometallic compounds and their use in synthetic organic chemistry, arene-catalyzed activation of different metals, preparation of new metal-based catalysts, including metallic nanoparticles, for homogeneous and heterogeneous selective reactions, and asymmetric catalysis. Professor Yus founded the new chemical company MEDALCHEMY S.L. to commercialize fine chemicals.

His research interest is on synthectic organic chemistry and medicinal chemistry.

Prof. Dr. Gerd Kaupp studied chemistry at the University of Würzburg, Germany and had postdoctoral appointments at Ames, Iowa, Lausanne, and Freiburg i. Br, where he became appointed as associate professor. From there he was appointed full professor at the University of Oldenburg in 1982. He guided a successful research group with various projects and cooperation with numerous industries and worldwide academic research groups. He served as guest professor for three international universities. Prof. Kaupp is now a retired member at the University of Oldenburg and pursues his scientific interests also with consulting. His expertise is in chemical kinetics, laser photochemistry, waste-free benign syntheses and productions, solid-state chemistry, reactive milling, mechanochemistry, atomic force microscopy AFM, scanning near-field optical microscopy SNOM, nanoscratching, nanoindentation, standardization in nanomechanics, and bionics. He is keynote speaker in these fields, published numerous scientific papers and books and is inventor of patents in solid-state and environmental chemistry. Email: [email protected]

His interest is on Organic Chemistry.

Alexander O. Terent’ev was born in Moscow, in 1973. He received his M.S. in Chemistry of Biologically Active Compounds from D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Moscow. PhD degree (2000) and D.Sc. degree (2009) in Organic Chemistry in N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS. 2011 – Professor D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia. 2016 – Professor RAS. Head of laboratory in N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS, Head of laboratory in All-Russian Research Institute of Phytopathology. fe He published 3 chapters in books, 100 research papers, and 25 patents.

His interests are organic chemistry, medical and agricultural chemistry, chemical technology.

Dr. Mangalagiu is a professor of organic and medicinal chemistry and Vice-Rector with research at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania. Previously, prof. Mangalagiu served as Dean, Vice-Dean, Head of Organic Chemistry Department, etc. at Faculty of Chemistry. He has nearly 30 years of experience in the research, focused in the area of Heterocycles Compounds. He has over 150 papers, 13 patents, 3 international chapter books, etc. He was Visiting Professor and/or invited speaker to prestigious foreign universities (Ludwig Maximilianus University Munchen and Technische Universität Braunschweig, University of Florence, Universite D’Angers), awarded with numerous prizes and honours: DAAD and NATO award, “Costin D. Nenitescu Medal” (Romanian Society of Chemistry), “Al.I.Cuza University Award in Research”, “Grand Prize Euroinvent” (Euroinvent, Romania), Special Award of Croatian Association of Inventors, etc. Web site: http://teclu.chem.uaic.ro/mangalagiu; Additional web site: http://a302.chem.uaic.ro/.

His research focused in the area of Heterocycles Compounds.

Igor Perepichka is a Professor of Chemistry at Bangor University, UK. He obtained his Diploma in Chemical Engineering from Donetsk Polytechnic Institute (1981) and his PhD in Organic Chemistry from the Institute of Physical Organic Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, IPOCC NASU (1987). He started his career at IPOCC NASU in Ukraine as an engineer in 1981 and was promoted to Senior Research Scientist in 1989. He has held several visiting positions, including Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (Würzburg University, Germany, 1995–1997), Visiting Scientist (CEA Saclay, 1999 and CNRS, 2000–2001, France), Invited Professor (Angers University, 2001–2002), Senior Research Associate (Durham University, 2003–2007). In 2007 he moved to the University of Central Lancashire (Preston, UK) as Reader in Chemistry. In 2010 he was appointed as Professor of Chemistry at Bangor University, UK. His work is documented in over 100 papers in refereed journals, over 20 patents and over 20 book chapters and proceedings. He was also an Editor of “Handbook of Thiophene-Based Materials: Applications in Organic Electronics and Photonics” (I. F. Perepichka, D. F. Perepichka, Two-Volumes Set, Wiley, 2009).

Prof Perepichka’s field of research is organic materials chemistry. The main research activity is focused on design, synthesis and studies of novel organic pi-functional systems, from small molecules to conjugated polymeric materials, toward their applications in organic electronics, optoelectronics and photonics. Current research interests encompass the development of functional pi-conjugated systems with tailored electronic properties in view of applications in solar energy conversion, electronic and photonic devices, and nanoscience: novel conjugated pi-functional systems, reactions and methods of synthesis; conjugated polymers with tailored properties and functions; conductive, semiconductive and photoconductive pi-conjugated materials (from small molecules to oligomers and polymers); charge, electron and energy transfer processes in pi-systems; intermolecular and intramolecular charge transfer processes in pi-conjugated systems; electroactive and photoactive pi-functional systems; organic nanomaterials, supramolecular architectures and self-organized systems; organic molecular and polymeric materials for light-emitting devices, organic photovoltaics, field-effect transistors, electrochromic devices, non-linear optics, nanotechnologies, sensors/biosensors etc.

Rafat M Mohareb Professor of Organic Chemistry at Department of Chemistry faculty of Science Giza, Egypt since 1994 till now. He got his Ph D Organic Chemistry on 1984 Cairo .Worked as Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley University State of California USA from 1999- 2002 Visiting Professor At Kuwait University 1995- 1996. He was Humboldt fellows in Germany in 1988, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2003, 2006 and 2009-2012, 2013-2016. He received the price of encouragement of research work from Egypt 1995. He published more than 170 Scientific publications in International journals. He Supervised more than 30 PhD and 60 MSc Theses.

Organic Chemistry

Pedro Molina Buendia,Professor,University of Murica Spain.

Organic Chemistry

Dr.Ghulam Choudary professor, International University School of Medicine. Netherlands

Organic Chemistry

Dr.Stefan Krawielitzki, Organic Chemistry Expert AVA Group Switzerland.

Organic Chemistry

Faiza Diaba studied chemistry at the University of Constantine, Algeria. She then obtained her Ph.D. in organic chemistry with Dr. Micheline Grignon-Dubois at Bordeaux I University, France. After a two years postdoctoral position with Prof. Josep Bonjoch at Barcelona University, she pursued her scientific career as a lecturer and since 2009 she is an associate professor at the same University. Besides teaching organic chemistry and spectroscopy, her big passion is constructing molecules. Her work is focused on developing new reactions for the synthesis of nitrogen heterocycles directed to the synthesis of natural compounds using radical chemistry, organocatalysis and iodoaminocyclizations catalyzed by NIS.

Synthetic organic chemistry related to nitrogen heterocycles present in natural products and bioactive molecules.

Ahmed Al -Momani Professor, University of Mississippi, USA.

Organic Chemistry

Experienced Associate Professor Of Chemistry with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in Chemistry, Organometallic Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Lecturing, and Organic Chemistry. Strong education professional with a Postdoc focused in Educational Evaluation and Research from Albert-Ludwig University, Freiburg, Germany.

Organic Chemistry,Organometallic Chemistry, Spectroscopy