Jing Li is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University, USA.

Her research focuses on the development of functional materials that are both fundamentally important and potentially useful for applications related to clean energy and environment, including metal-organic frameworks and inorganic-organic hybrid semiconductors. 

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For more info, go to: https://www.apc2023.org/jingli

Tahei Tahara is the Chief Scientist and Director of the Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory at Riken.

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His research interests are ultrafast spectroscopy, nonlinear spectroscopy, and single-molecule spectroscopy of complex molecular systems.

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For more info, go to: https://www.apc2023.org/taheitahara

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Jim Jr-Min Lin is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica and a Joint-Appointment Professor in the Department of Chemistry at National Taiwan University.

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His research interests are in reactive scattering, dynamics, kinetics and spectroscopy of unstable species that are important in atmospheric chemistry.

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For more info, go to: https://www.apc2023.org/jimjr-minlin

Lu Wei is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and a Heritage Medical Research Institute (HMRI) Investigator at Caltech.

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Her group works on developing and applying nonlinear vibrational imaging techniques to quantitatively investigate the intracellular biophysical and biochemical processes with an emphasis on subcellular metabolism; multiplex cellular imaging; functional vibrational imaging and sensing with down to single molecule sensitivity.

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For more info, go to: https://www.apc2023.org/luwei

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Hiroaki Misawa is a Professor Emeritus at Hokkaido University, Japan and a life-time professor at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Tsukuba in 1984. After an assistant professorship at the University of Tsukuba, he joined the Microphotoconversion project (ERATO) of JST. He became an associate professor at the University of Tokushima in 1993 and was promoted to full professor in 1995. He moved to Hokkaido University as full Professor in 2003.

For more info, go to:  https://www.apc2023.org/hiroakimisawa

Stefan Maier is currently the Head of School of Physics and Astronomy at Monash University, and the Lee-Lucas Chair for Experimental Physics at Imperial College London. He graduated from Caltech in Applied Physics and works mainly in nanophotonics, plasmonics, and metasurfaces from the visible to the mid-infrared.

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For more info, go to: https://www.apc2023.org/stefanmaier

Satish Patil is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He obtained his Ph.D. in polymer chemistry with Prof. Ullrich Scherf at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany. He did his postdoctoral work with Prof. Fred Wudl at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research group at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore is engaged in developing π-conjugated polymers and oligomers for molecular electronics.

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For more info, go to: https://www.apc2023.org/satishpatil

Xing Yi Ling is a Professor in Chemistry from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She received her Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from University of Twente, the Netherlands in 2009, and her postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley between 2009-2011. She joined Chemistry and Biological Chemistry division at Nanyang Technological University in 2011, where she was promoted to professor in 2021. Her research focuses in using nanotechnology for fundamental studies and applications in environmental, healthcare, and catalysis fields. In particular, she is interested in self-assembling shape-controlled noble metal nanoparticles into superlattices to impart new structure-to-function properties and applications in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS).

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More more info, go to: https://www.apc2023.org/xingyiling

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