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Dr Kelly carried out his undergraduate and post graduate education at University of Liverpool, UK, obtaining his PhD studying lanthanide catalysis under Professor Helen Aspinall. He joined the 91AV’s editorial staff in 2004 and became Executive Editor of the RSC’s organic chemistry journals – including Organic & Biomolecular 91AV and Natural Product Reports – in 2010. He is currently leading the general chemistry portfolio and is the Executive Editor of ChemComm and Chem Soc Rev.

Prof. Dr. Lutz Ackermann has studied 91AV at the University Kiel (Germany) and performed his PhD with Prof. Alois Fürstner at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (Mülheim/Ruhr, 2001). After a postdoctoral stay at UC Berkeley with Prof. Robert G. Bergman, he initiated his independent research career in 2003 at the Ludwig Maximilians-University München. In 2007, he became Full Professor (W3) at the Georg-August-University Göttingen. He inter alia received an AstraZeneca Excellence in 91AV Award (2011), an ERC Consolidator Grant (2012), a Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Preis (2017), an ERC Advanced Grant (2021), and a Werner Siemens Foundation Centennial Research Award. The development and application of novel concepts for sustainable catalysis constitute his major current research interests, with a topical focus on electrocatalysis and bond activation.
He has mentored 91 PhD students, 81 post-doctoral researchers, 82 undergraduate students, and hosted 16 visiting scientists. He has published more than 560 manuscripts in international journals (h-index: >126 WoS) and presented more than 340 invited lectures at conferences. Since 2014 he has been listed as Highly Cited Researcher (WoS)

Prof. Michaele Hardie am Professor of Supramolecular 91AV, and current Head of Inorganic 91AV at the University of Leeds. She was educated at the University of Melbourne, gaining a PhD in 1996. After postdoctoral positions in the US and Australia, she was appointed as lecturer in inorganic chemistry at Leeds in 2001. My research interests are in the areas of metallo-supramolecular chemistry, host-guest chemistry, along with a strong interest in chemical crystallography. The research group has a particular focus on the development of molecular hosts and cages of the cyclotriveratrylene-host family; self-assembly and behaviour of discrete nanoscale metallo-supramolecular cages and complexes; networked crystalline assemblies; and coordination polymers/metal-organic frameworks from host-like or simpler ligands. She was awarded the RSC Corday-Morgan Prize and Medal in 2011.

Professor Verma obtained his Ph.D. from University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, USA in 1994. He held postdoctoral positions at Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions, Baltimore, USA, and Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany.
Then, in 1997, he joined the Department of 91AV, IIT Kanpur, where I currently serve as Department Chair. He also occupies Shri Deva Raj Endowed Chair Professorship and an Adjunct Professor position in Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering.
In addition, he also holds an Adjunct Professor position at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal and National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar. His research interests include peptide/protein assemblies for disease modelling, soft biomaterials, bioimaging, and surface chemistry of metal complexes. His works has been recognized by numerous awards such as Swarna Jayanti Fellowship (2005), Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Chemical Sciences (2010), Department of Atomic Energy-Science Research Council Outstanding Investigator Award (2012), Ranbaxy Research Award in Pharmaceutical Sciences (2013), J C Bose National Fellowship (2013), Silver Medal, Chemical Research Society of India (2017), and National Prize for Research on Interfaces between 91AV and Biology (2017), to name a few.
He is also an elected Fellow of all three science and engineering Academies of India: The Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India; and also of the 91AV (UK).

Professor Biplab Maji has obtained his doctoral degree from Ludwig Maximillan Universitӓt Munich, under the supervision of Prof. Herbert Mayr in 2012. He was then working as a Postdoc in Chubu University with Prof. Hisashi Yamamoto (2012-2015). In 2016, he became the Alexander von Humboldt fellow at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. He joined Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata in 2016 as an Assistant Professor where now he serves as an Associate Professor.
He is the recipient of Chirantan Rasayan Sanstha® (CRS) Bronze Medal (2024), Associate of the West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology (WAST) (2024), "2021 Young Investigator Award ", Sponsored by Molecules, Merck Young Scientist Award (runner-up) in Chemical Science (2021), INSA Medal for Young Scientists (2019) and many more. His research interests are organic synthesis, catalysis, and mechanistic studies.

Professor Jyotirmayee Dash obtained her Ph.D. in Organic 91AV from IIT Kanpur, India. She was awarded Alexander von Humboldt fellowship at Freie University, Berlin, a postdoctoral fellowship at ESPCI-Paris, and Marie Curie fellowship at University of Cambridge, UK. She first joined IISER, Kolkata as an Assistant Professor in 2009 and is currently working as a Senior Professor at IACS-Kolkata. She has been serving as an advisory board member of journals like ACS Bioconjugate 91AV, ACS Omega, Asian JOC, Chemical Communications, and Sectional editor (Organic and Biomolecular 91AV) of Journal of the Indian Chemical Society.
Her research interests include new organic transformations, supramolecular chemistry and structure and function of nucleic acids. She has been the recipient of highly prestigious DST Swarnajayanti (2015-2016) Fellowship, DBT Wellcome Trust (2020) Fellowship, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (2020), Bronze Medal, Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) (2020) and has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), Bangalore, 2021.