EuChemS Chemistry Congress

Brandi Cossairt received her B. S. in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 2006. Brandi went on to pursue graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the guidance of Professor Christopher C. Cummins and was awarded her Ph.D. in 2010. She then continued her academic career as an NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University between 2010 and 2012 working with Professor Jonathan Owen. Brandi joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Washington as an Assistant Professor in 2012 and is now the Lloyd E. and Florence M. West Endowed Professor. Her research group examines the nucleation, growth, surface chemistry, and reactivity of nanoscale materials to enable next-generation technologies in the diverse areas of displays, lighting, catalysis, quantum information, and hybrid matter. She has received a number of awards for her research including a Sloan Research Fellowship, a Packard Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award, a Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and the National Fresenius Award from the American Chemical Society. Outside of the lab Brandi is an Associate Editor at the ACS journal Inorganic Chemistry and is the co-founder of the Chemistry Women Mentorship Network (ChemWMN).

Niveen M. Khashab is a Professor of Chemistry at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). After her doctoral studies at the University of Florida, she joined sir Fraser Stoddart’s Lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, and then at Northwestern University working on supramolecular chemistry. Her current efforts focus on intrinsically porous materials (IPMs) for energy intensive separations and supramolecular assembled capsules (SACs) for encapsulation, delivery and biomedical applications. She is the recipient of the Crow Award in Organic Chemistry in 2004, AlMaraai Award for Nanotechnology in 2013 and the L’Oréal-Unesco Women in Science International Award in 2017. In 2021, she was named a fellow of the Royal Chemical Society. She is on the editorial board of 10 scientific journals (ACS, RSC, Wiley) and currently serving as an associate editor at Chemistry of Materials (ACS).

Maria Laura Bolognesi received her PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences under the direction of Professor Carlo Melchiorre in 1996 and carried out postdoctoral work at the University of Minnesota with Professor Philip S. Portoghese. Her research explores the development of small molecules in the neurodegenerative and neglected tropical disease therapeutic areas. Maria Laura was awarded the positions of Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid in 2009, Pesquisador Visitante Especial at the University of Brasilia in 2014 and Professeur Invité at Université Caen Normandie in 2018. She is an Associate Editor of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of ChemMedChem. She also serves in the Advisory Board of the European Federation of Medicinal Chemistry.

Prof. Guosong Chen got her BA in Chemistry Department, Nankai University, China. She stayed in the same department and got her Ph. D in 2006, working on supramolecular chemistry. Then she did her postdoc work in Chemistry Department, Iowa State University, which was about synthetic carbohydrate antigens and microarray. In 2009, she joined Prof. Ming Jiang’s group as a lecturer in Department of Macromolecular Science at Fudan University. Then she was promoted to associate professor in Oct. 2011, then full professor in Dec. 2014. Right now, she teaches two undergraduate courses, including “sweet chemistry” and “glycochemistry and glycobiology (in English)”. Research Interests Protein assemblies driven by carbohydrate-protein interactions Glyco-assemblies and their immunological properties Carbohydrate chemistry as a new driving force of self-assembly Macromolecular self-assembly inspired by supramolecular chemistry