Professor Tianbo Liu

School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron, USA

Prof. Dr. Tianbo Liu received his B.S. degree from Peking University, China in 1994 and his Ph.D. in chemistry from Stony Brook Univesity in 1999 (advisor Benjamin Chu). After spending two more years in the same group as a postdoctoral associate, he started his independent research career at the Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory. In Jan. 2005 he moved to Lehigh University as an assistant professor of Chemistry, and was promoted to associate professor in 2009 and full professor in 2012. Since Jan. 2013 he has been the A. Schulman Professor of Polymer Science at The University of Akron. He also served as the Chair of Department of Polymer Science and the Interim Director of School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering at The University of Akron. His laboratory focuses on understand the fundamental behaviour of complex solutions, especially hydrophilic macroions, inorganic-organic hybrid materials and other colloidal and biological systems. Polyoxometalate macroionic clusters and polyoxometalate-based inorganic-organic hybrid molecules are among the heavily explored systems.

Professor Laurent Ruhlmann

Laboratory of Electrochemistry and of Chemical Physic, Institute of Chemistry – UMR 7177, University of Strasbourg, France

Prof. Dr. Laurent Ruhlmann received his M.S. from University Louis Pasteur at Strasbourg, France. He had completed his Ph.D. at the University Louis Pasteur at Strasbourg in 1997. After one post-doctorate at the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany in 1998, he became associate professor at the University Paris-Sud 11 now named Saclay University (France). He is now full professor in chemistry since 2011 in the University of Strasbourg where he is the team leader of the Laboratory of Electrochemistry and of Chemical Physic (Institute of Chemistry, UMR 7177). His research interests include the chemistry of polyoxometalates, coordination chemistry, catalysis, energy, materials, and environment. Prof. Laurent Ruhlmann is expert in electrochemistry and develops hybrid functional materials based on polyoxometalate for photo(electro)catalyzed applications such as the fabrication of new type photovoltaic devices, photo(electro)switch hybrid systems or photocatalysis for the recovery of metallic ions. Microkinetics modeling of the experimental current-potential curves can be used to estimate the turnover frequency (TOF) while in situ differential electrochemical mass spectroscopy (DEMS) is used to analysis product or intermediate species of the reaction during electrocatalysis. He has published more than 120 papers in respected international journals including Angew. Chem., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., and Chem. Sci. He also published one book entitled “Trends in polyoxometalate research” in 2015 (Editors, L. Ruhlmann and D. Schaming, Nova Publisher).

Professor Yang-Guang Li

The Faculty of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, China

Prof. Dr. Yang-Guang Li graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry in Northeast Normal University (Changchun, China) and obtained the Bachelor degree in Jul. 1997, the Master degree in Jul. 2000 and the Ph.D. degree in Jul. 2003, respectively. Then, he was engaged in the first post-doc research in Centre de Recherche Paul-Pascal, C.N.R.S. (Bordeaux, France) from Nov. 2003 to Dec. 2004, and the second post-doc research at the Faculty of Chemistry in Karlsruhe University (Karlsruhe, Germany) from Jan. 2005 to Jan. 2006. In Apr. 2003, he served as a lecture at the Faculty of Chemistry in Northeast Normal University, and was prompted as professor in Nov. 2011. Prof. Yang-Guang Li kept on engaging in the polyoxometalate (POM) chemistry since 1997. In recent five years, he has combined the basic research of POM chemistry with sustainable hydrogen production, and obtained a series of new scientific research achievements. Now, he has published ca. 150 SCI papers. In 2018, he was selected as one of top of 1% Chinese scholars in the Energy & Environment field by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). In 2022, he was selected into the list of top 2% scientists in the world released by Stanford University. In 2022, he was also invited to interview scientific figures of Wiley. So far, he has participated in the publication of two academic monographs on POM chemistry. Also, he has undertaken five National Natural Science Foundations of China. In 2004, he won the second prize of National Natural Science Award in cooperation with Prof. En-Bo Wang (The fourth project participant). In 2022, he won the second prize of University Science Research Excellence Award of the Ministry of Education (The first project participant). In 2015, he co-organized the POM symposium at PACIFICHEM 2015 with Prof. May Nyman (USA), Prof. Tomoji Ozeki (Japan) and Dr. Chris Ritchie (Australia). In 2017, he co-organized the FMOCS V (POM international conference) with Prof. Li-Xin Wu at Changchun.

Carles Bo, Institut Català d’Investigació Química, Spain

Alan Bond, Monash University, Australia

Emmanuel Cadot, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, France

Rong Cao, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Ulli Englert, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

John Errington, Newcastle University, UK

Craig L. Hill, Emory University, USA

Changwen Hu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Ulrich Kortz, Jacobs University, Germany

Deliang Long, University of Glasgow, UK

Lasheng Long, Xiamen University, China

Achim Müller, University of Bielefeld, Germany

Ronny Neumann, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Jingyang Niu, Henan University, China

Zhonghua Peng, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA

Anna Proust, Sorbonne Université, France

Xiaogang Qu, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Zhongmin Su, Jilin University, China

Ira A. Weinstock, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Lixin Wu, Jilin University, China

Lin Xu, Northeast Normal University, China

Guoyu Yang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Chang-Guo Zhan, University of Kentucky, USA

Zhiping Zheng, South University of Science and Technology of China, China

Yan Bai, Henan University, China

Yong Ding, Lanzhou University, China

Anne Dolbecq, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France

Xikui Fang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Shuang Gao, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Scienecs, China

Jing Gu, San Diego State University, USA

Zhangang Han, Hebei Normal University, China

Xiangjian Kong, Xiamen University, China

Yaqian Lan, South China Normal University, China

Shaoqin Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Ying Lu, Northeast Normal University, China

Pierre Mialane, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France

Greta R. Patzke, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Chris Ritchie, Monash University, Australia

Annette Rompel, University of Vienna, Austria

Masahiro Sadakane, Hiroshima University, Japan

Yufei Song, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China

Carsten Streb, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

Qingfu Sun, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Kosuke Suzuki, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Sayaka Uchida, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Xinlong Wang, Northeast Normal University, China

Xiuli Wang, Bohai University, China

Yan Xu, Nanjing Tech University, China

Likai Yan, Northeast Normal University, China

Shuangquan Zang, Zhengzhou University, China

Guangjin Zhang, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Jian Zhang, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Jie Zhang, Monash University, Australia

Jie Zhang, Peking University, China

Xianming Zhang, Taiyuan University of Technology, China

Shoutian Zheng, Fuzhou University, China

Baibin Zhou, Harbin Normal University, China

Junwei Zhao, Henan University, China