Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP
Saint Martin d’Hères Cedex | FR
Dr Marc de Boissieu is currently a CNRS Emeritus senior scientist, working at the SIMaP laboratory, Université Grenoble Alpes and CNRS. He is a specialist of the study of the atomic structure and dynamics of quasicrystals and aperiodic crystals, using large scale facilities such as x-ray synchrotron and neutron sources. Most recently he has investigated the relationship between structural complexity and low thermal conductivity in different systems. He has been the director of the European network CMetAC from 2009 to 2019, and is currently running the Aperiodic Crystals international network.
Goethe University Frankfurt
Frankfurt | DE
Maxim Bykov is a Professor at the Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry of Goethe University Frankfurt, where he has recently moved in November 2023 after spending two years as an Emmy-Noether group leader at the University of Cologne. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Crystallography from the University of Bayreuth in 2015, applying high-pressure diamond anvil cell technique and single-crystal X-ray diffraction to study compounds with complex incommensurately modulated structures. In 2015, he joined the Bavarian Geoinstitute as a postdoctoral researcher, concentrating on high-pressure chemical synthesis in diamond anvil cells. Using multigrain X-ray diffraction analysis, he discovered numerous nitrogen-rich compounds across various metal-nitrogen systems. For his contributions to nitrogen chemistry, he was awarded by the European High-Pressure Research Group (EHPRG) in 2020. He expanded this research at Howard University and Carnegie Institution for Science, focusing on high-pressure synthesis scalability, reproducibility, and predictability.
Goethe-Universität — Gemeinsam Wissen schaffen! (uni-frankfurt.de)
University of Cambridge, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
Cambridge | UK
Randy Read was born in Canada and studied Biochemistry at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, specialising in protein crystallography for his PhD. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands, he returned to the University of Alberta to take up his first faculty position in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, supported by the Medical Research Council of Canada and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 1998 he moved to Cambridge to join the new Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, supported by a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship. His main research interests are in the development of likelihood-based methods for structural biology, as well as the application of these methods to the study of medically-relevant proteins.
Professor Randy J Read FRS | Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
Goethe University of Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main | DE
Dr. Eugenia Peresypkina obtained her Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry and Crystallography from Samara State University, Russia, in 2003. Her research focused on analyzing crystallographic databases and exploring molecular packing in inorganic and organic molecular compounds under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Vladislav Blatov. In 2004, she joined the Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry (Laboratory of Crystallochemistry) in Novosibirsk, where she studied challenging crystal structures of transition metal clusters and polyoxometallates using single-crystal X-ray diffraction. In 2014, she was invited by Prof. Dr. Manfred Scheer to join his group and structurally characterize nano-sized pentaphosphaferrocene-based supramolecules. She applied cryo-crystallographic techniques and developed protocols for acquiring high-quality diffraction data for air-sensitive non-biological compounds containing thousands of crystallographically unique atoms using synchrotron radiation. Currently, Dr. Eugenia Peresypkina serves as a Research Crystallographer at the Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry at Goethe University Frankfurt.