Prof. Paul T. Anastas holds the Teresa and H. John Heinz III Chair in Chemistry for the Environment at Yale University and is the founding Director of the Center for Green Chemistry & Green Engineering at Yale. Dr. Anastas has appointments in the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Department of Chemistry, School of Management, School of Public Health and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Dr. Anastas has served in three Presidential Administrations including the appointment by President Barack Obama as the Assistant Administrator for Research and Development at the US Environmental Protection Agency and has co-founded 4 companies. Dr. Anastas has published 200 research papers and 17 books, is known as the ‘Father of Green Chemistry’, and has been internationally recognized for his advancement of the field.

Kazunari Domen received B.S. (1976), M.S. (1979), and Ph.D. (1982) honors in chemistry from the University of Tokyo. Dr. Domen joined Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1982 as Assistant Professor and was subsequently promoted to Associate Professor in 1990 and Professor in 1996. Moving to the University of Tokyo as Professor in 2004, and Cross appointment with Shinshu University as Special Contract Professor in 2017. University Professor of the University of Tokyo in 2019.His research interests include heterogeneous catalysis and materials chemistry, with particular focus on surface chemical reaction dynamics, photocatalysis, solid acid catalysis, and mesoporous materials. Recently, his effort is focused on development of photocatalysts for water splitting and construction of practical solar hydrogen production system.
All time (1980-2024.3):
Publications (peer reviewed original papers and Reviews) ≥ 900;
Citations ≥ 100,000; h-index: 147 (Web of Science)

Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Director of the Molecular Nanotechnology Lab.
President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) from 2022-23.
Member of the World Economic Forum, where he has made a significant impact in promoting the global voice of science. Since 2012, Prof García-Martínez has contributed to the identification of the World Economic Forum's Top Ten Emerging Technologies and its annual report, which is presented to government and global business leaders in Davos.
His contributions to nanotechnology have unlocked the potential of heterogeneous catalysts for the conversion of bulky molecules by introducing controlled intracrystalline mesopositivity. This technology is now widely used in academic laboratories and chemical companies around the world, saving hundreds of thousands of tonnes of CO2 per year by reducing the amount of waste and coke that would otherwise be burned to produce green gas emissions in key industrial processes ranging from biomass conversion to catalytic cracking. He is also a renowned entrepreneur. As founder of Rive Technology, the company that commercialises his catalysts, he started, grew and recently sold this business to Grace, the largest catalyst manufacturer.
His contributions to catalysis, energy and chemistry have been recognised with some of the most prestigious awards, including 1) Young Global Leader, 2009 - World Economic Forum, 2) Innovator of the Year, 2007 - MIT, 3) Member of the Round Table of Top Entrepreneurs, 2008 - European Commission, 4) Emerging Researcher Award, 2015 and Kathryn C. Hach Award for Entrepreneurial Success, 2018 - American Chemical Society, 5) Premio Rey Jaime I, 2014, 6) Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2024 and Fellow of the American Chemical Society, 2021, and the International Science Council 2023, and 7) Member of the Council of Emerging Technologies - World Economic Forum, 8) National Research Award, 2023.

Director in honor, Shanghai Key Laboratory for Green Chemistry and Chemical Process, East China Normal University. Vice Chairman of the Academic Committee, Research Institute of Petroleum Processing, Sinopec.
Prof He has been conducting research in the field of catalysis and green chemistry for more than 60 years. His work covers both fundamental research and technological innovation, with about 300 papers published and more than 200 Chinese or international patents granted. A number of zeolite synthesis and modification methods have been invented, and several series of refining catalysts have been developed and applied commercially. One of his achievements was selected as one of the "Top Ten Scientific and Technological Achievements of the Nation" in 1996. He has also received numerous awards such as the Nation's Invention Awards, the Nation's Scientific and Technological Progress Awards, the Outstanding Chinese Patent Awards, etc. In 2001, He received an award from the Ho Leung Ho Li Foundation, Hong Kong. In 2012, he was awarded "Catalysis Achievement Award of China" by the Chinese Chemical Society. In 2019, he was awarded "Zeolite Life Achievement Award" by Chinese Zeolite Society. In 2022, he was awarded the "Chemistry Contribution Award" by the Chinese Chemical Society.
Prof He was elected a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995. He was appointed as Principal Scientist for the State Key Basic Research Programme in the field of Green Chemistry. He was co-chairman of the 15th International Zeolite Conference. In 2007, he was elected Vice President of the International Zeolite Association. He was awarded “Cavalier Medal of Palm Leaf” by French Ministry of Education in 2012. He was bestowed the diploma of Doctor Honoris Causa of Ecole Normale Superieur de Lyon, France, in 2016.
Since the 21st century, Prof. He has focused his scientific research on green chemistry. He proposed a novel concept of "Green Carbon Science" based on the principle of carbon balance and recycling to promote achieving carbon neutrality. Great efforts and significant progress have been made in the fields of fundametal research and process technology.

Ehud Keinan is Benno Gitter Professor of Chemistry at the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion, Israel. Born in Israel, obtained a Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute and a postdoc at the University of Wisconsin with Barry Trost; published over 200 papers, 22 patents, and four books on biocatalysis with antibodies and synthetic enzymes, organic synthesis, drug discovery, molecular computing, and supra-molecular chemistry; was Dean of Chemistry at the Technion, an Adjunct Professor at The Scripps Research Institute, California for 25 years, founded the Institute of Catalysis Science and Technology in the Technion, and two startup companies. He served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Sciences, Guangdong-Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Guangdong, China (2015-2016), and since 2020 he holds a Distinguished Visiting Chair at the Academia Sinica; served on the Executive Board of EuChemS, serves on the FACS Board. He is 16-year Editor-in-Chief of Israel J. Chem (Wiley-VCH), 18-year President of the Israel Chemical Society, Editor-in-Chief of the AsiaChem magazine (FACS), 10-year Council Member of the Wolf Foundation (oversees the Wolf Chemistry Prize), 15-year Chairman of the Advisory Council of Chemistry, Ministry of Education, Chairman of the Bowei Research Conferences, IUPAC President (2024-2025).
Keinan received the New England Award for Academic Excellence, the Shannon Award, the CapCure Award, the Herschel-Rich Award, the Technion Prize for security technologies, the Henri Taub Prize for scientific excellence, and the Schulich Prize, the Engagement Leader of the Year Award from the Asia-Pacific Triple E Awards, and the 2020 Award of Service from EuChemS. The Makor Rishon magazine selected him as “Man of the Year” of 2017. Since 2010 he is an AAAS Fellow, and since 2021 he is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society.

Johannes Lercher studied Chemistry at the Technische Universität Wien, completing doctoral studies in 1980 with Prof. Heinrich Noller and spent 1982 at Yale University working with Prof. Gary Haller. After returning to the TU Wien, he was Professor of Chemical Technology at the University of Twente, Netherlands (1993-1998). Since 1998 he is Professor of Chemistry at the Technische Universität München and, since 2011, Director of the Institute of Integrated Catalysis at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Prof. Lercher's research addresses the foundational elements of catalysts and catalyzed reactions, aiming to reduce the carbon footprint through new methods of synthesizing energy carriers and chemical intermediates.
Johannes Lercher is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Catalysis and was President of the International Zeolite Association and the European Federation of Catalysis Societies. He is member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Sciences, the US National Academy of Engineering, the US National Academy of Inventors, and the German National Academy of Science and Engineering. His contributions to research have been recognized by awards including, the Michel Boudart Award of the North American Catalysis Society and the European Federation of Catalysis Societies, the Alwin Mittasch Prize, DECHEMA, the David Trimm and Noel Cant Lectureship of the Australian Catalysis Society, the ENI Award for Hydrocarbon Research, the R.B. Anderson Award of the Canadian Catalysis Society, the Francois Gault Lectureship Award of the European Federation of Catalysis Societies, the Kozo Tanabe Prize for Acid Base Catalysis, and the Robert Burwell Lectureship in Catalysis of the North American Catalysis Society.

Prof. Chao-Jun Li received his Ph.D. at McGill University 1992 and was a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow Stanford University (US). He was an Assistant (1994), Associate (1998) and Full Professor (2000) at Tulane University (US). Since 2003, he has been a Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Green Chemistry and E. B. Eddy Chair Professor at McGill University. He also serves as the Co-Director for Quebec’s FQRNT Center for Green Chemistry and Catalysis since 2009. He was a pioneer in using water as a green solvent and a leader in developing Green Chemistry for chemical synthesis. He was listed as a highly cited researcher by Thomson Reuters (2014-2017). He received US NSF’s CAREER Award (1997), US Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (2001), 2010 Canadian Green Chemistry and Engineering Award, 2015 R. U. Lemieux Award and 2018 Alfred Bader Award of the Canadian Chemical Society, the 2020 Catalysis Award and the 2022 CIC Medal of CIC, the 2021 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, and the 2018 Killam Research Fellow of the Canadian Council of Arts among others. Dr. Li was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2012), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) (2007), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2012), Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada (2013), Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS) (2015), a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) (2016) and a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (2020).

Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff CBE FRS FREng studied at King's College, Cambridge, B.A (1969) and Ph.D. (1973) In 1972, he was appointed Research/Senior Research Officer in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1979, he moved to a Lectureship in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham. Promotion to Reader in Inorganic Chemistry and then to Professor of Chemistry followed in 1985 and 1991 respectively. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (2002), of the RSC (2002) and of the IChemE (2004). He was awarded CBE (2008) for "Services to Sciences", and knighted in 2015 for "Services to the Chemical Sciences". He was made Honorary Member of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia (2008) and Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2011) and Honorary Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society (2015). In 2012, He was elected a Fellow of the Academia Europaea and, in 2013, Associate Fellow of TWAS, the World Academy of Science and Associate Member of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences (2014), Honorary Fellow of the RSC (2015), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2016) and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2017). He was a Council Member of the IChemE (2009-13) and Foreign Secretary and Vice-President of the Royal Society, the UK academy of sciences (2011-16). In 1998, he was a speaker at the first Green Chemistry conference to be held in China. In 2018, he was appointed Honorary Professor at Beijing University of Chemical Technology and in 2023, he was elected a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2021, a Nottingham City Tram was named in his honour. His research interests are focussed on supercritical fluids, continuous reactions and their applications to Green and sustainable Chemistry.

Li-Zhu Wu received her B.S. degree in chemistry from Lanzhou University in 1990, and got her Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Photographic Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the supervision of Professor Chen-Ho Tung in 1995. From 1995−1998, she worked at the Institute of Photographic Chemistry as an associate professor. After a postdoctoral stay (1997−1998) at the University of Hong Kong working with Professor Chi-Ming Che, she returned to the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as a full professor. Her research interests are focused on photochemical conversion, including artificial photosynthesis, visible light catalysis for organic transformation, and photoinduced electron transfer, energy transfer and chemical reactions in supramolecular systems. She was elected as a Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2019, a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in 2021, a New Cornerstone Investigator in 2022.