Professor Loh completed his basic and postgraduate studies at the National University of Singapore. A polymer chemist by training, he is currently the Executive Director of the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR. As a pioneer in the area of biodegradable thermogels, he is highly knowledgeable in developing these materials for various applications spanning biomedical, engineering, cosmetics, personal care and food. His scientific contributions have earned him the position of Fellowship in Fitzwiliam College in the University of Cambridge. He holds multiple Fellowships in the Royal Society of Chemistry, Singapore National Institute of Chemistry, Institution of Engineering and Technology and The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. With his extensive experience in authoring >250 journal papers, 38 patents and know-hows, >30 book chapters and 7 books, he currently sits on several editorial boards of international journals as an expert in his area. He is a multiple Highly Cited Researcher awardee by Clarivate Analytics. He has also successfully helped in the commercialization of 8 different products and is always interested in the translation of science to products. He is also a co-founder of a spin-off, Vitreogel Innovations, a company which looks at developing thermogels for retinal detachment treatment.

Assoc Professor Zhao Yu obtained his B.S. in Chemistry at Peking University in 2002 where he carried out his undergraduate research with Prof Limin Qi on Surface Chemistry. In the same year, he went abroad to Boston College and obtained his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 2008 under the guidance of Prof. Marc L.Snapper and Prof. Amir H. Hoveyda. After that he had the honor of working with Nobel laureate Prof. Richard R. Schrock at MIT as a postdoctoral associate in the field of organometallic chemistry. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious NRF fellowship from singapore and joined Department of Chemistry at NUS as an assistant professor. In July 2017 he was promoted to associate professor of chemistry.

Dr LU Jiong is an associate professor at Department of Chemistry and Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials at NUS. Dr. Lu received his bachelor degree from Fudan University (China) in 2007 and Ph.D. degree from National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2011. After that, he worked as a postdoc fellow in Graphene Research Centre at NUS, and then move to Department of Physics, UC Berkeley. His current research interests include atomic-scale materials design and investigation of atomic-scale nanoscience in low-dimensional electronic/magnetic materials and quantum materials towards next-generation solid-state devices and atomically precise catalysis. His group has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in top-tier journals including Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Electronics, Nature Communications and Science Advances. His publications were highlighted in several Nature series journal, numerous media reports, and also selected as JACS Early Career Investigator 2021 virtual collection. Dr. Lu is a recipient of JMCA Emerging Investigators 2019 and NUS Faculty of Science Young Scientist Award (2021).

Asst Prof Mihaiela Stuparu is an Assistant Professor in Chemistry at NTU. She obtained her doctoral degree in the group of Prof. A. D. Schlüter from ETH-Zürich, Switzerland. In 2009, she received the Ambizione fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Her research focus is on the preparation of corannulene-based polymers differing in their chemical composition and architecture together with studying their properties.

Dr. Fung Fun Man is a Singaporean instructor of Chemistry at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He earned his post-graduate degrees from NUS and Technical University of Munich. Dr. Fung is the national representative of Singapore National Institute of Chemistry at IUPAC Committee on Chemical Education, and he serves as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board (2021—present) at the Journal of Chemical Education, ACS Publications. He was elected to serve on the International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) steering committee for two terms (2014—2018) and as elected secretary of the International Younger Chemists Network (IYCN) (2019—2021). He is a recipient of the IUPAC Periodic Table of Younger Chemists award (Fluorine).

Dr. Liu Xiaogang is an Assistant Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge in 2014. He began his independent research with Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) as a SMART Scholar (2014—2016). After joining SUTD in 2017,  he led the Fluorescence Research Group to conduct research on the structure-property relationships of organic dyes, as well as develop high-performance fluorescent products for a wide range of applications (i.e., fluorescence imaging and sensing). 

Xiaogang and his co-workers’ research has been voted as the #4 of Top 10 Breakthroughs in Physics for 2010 by Physics World, highlighted by ACS Noteworthy Chemistry (2014), and featured in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) of American Chemical Society (2020).

Wendy is an Intellectual Property (IP) Specialist at ResMed, a medical device company that helps people with sleep apnea, COPD and other chronic diseases. Prior to joining ResMed, Wendy was at a boutique IP law firm where she advised clients on their patent filing strategy, drafted patent specifications and assisted in worldwide prosecution of patent applications. She is regularly invited to speak about IP and IP-related careers, thereby promoting IP awareness.

Wendy obtained her PhD in Chemistry from the Nanyang Technological University and her BSc (Honours) in Chemistry from the National University of Singapore. She has been an active SNIC member since 2017 and was the co-Chairman of the SNIC Membership Committee (which was renamed to the SNIC Industry Chapter) from 2017-2020. During her tenure as co-Chairman, she regularly organized events to (i) connect academia and industry; (ii) connect students with industry professionals; (ii) spearheaded initiatives like the SNIC mentorship programme and collaborations between SNIC and the Royal Society of Chemistry (Singapore Chapter). In recognition of her commendable contributions, she was awarded the SNICMerit Service Award in 2019. In her free time, Wendy loves to “match make” her friends for networking and dating purposes.

Professor Shunsuke Chiba is a Professor at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has been at NTU since April 2007 and was awarded tenure in 2012. Prof. Chiba received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Tokyo. His research interests include synthetic organic chemistry - the development of new synthetic reactions and synthesis of natural and unnatural products. He has received many awards such as the Thieme Chemistry Journal Award, Asian Core Program Lectureship Award, GSK-SNIC Award in Organic Chemistry, and the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and an Advisory Board Member of the Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry journal by RSC.

Dr Xu Jianwei is currently a Principal Scientist I at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) , Agency for Science, Research and Technology (A*STAR), and he is also an Adjunct Research Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Dr Xu received his B.S. and his M.S. in Chemistry from Department of Chemistry, Nanjing University in China in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He graduated from NUS with a Ph.D. degree in 2000. Dr Xu joined IMRE in 2000. From 2011 to 2016, he was appointed as the Head of Synthesis and Integration Capability Group that is the largest research capability group in IMRE. Currently, he is a Strategic Research Councilor of IMRE, A*STAR. He is also program manager of A*STAR, Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) hybrid thermoelectric program. In IMRE, his major research work is focusing on the development of functional polymer materials, hybrid materials, high-temperature lubrication materials, and liquid crystalline materials for various applications. In particular, he has been leading/participating numerous industry-funded projects since he joined IMRE. He has collaborated with many multinational companies including Seagate International Technology, Boeing Company, Procter & Gamble, Rolls Royce, SIA Engineering Company, Honeywell, Symrise, Sumitomo Bakelite, etc. He has published more than one hundred papers in refereed journals, filed more twenty patents and company know-hows, some of them have been licensed to the Singapore and US companies for commercialization. Since 2012, he has been elected as one of the SNIC council members. 

Professor JJ Vittal received his BSc from the University of Madras, MSc from Madurai University and PhD from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. While working as a postdoctoral fellow and a research associate at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, he was trained in X-ray crystallography by Prof. Nicholas C Payne. Later he managed the X-ray facility in the Department of Chemistry until he left for Singapore. JJ accepted a faculty position as a Senior Lecturer at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1997 and established Service Crystallography Laboratory in the Department of Chemistry for their central instrumentation facility. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Chemistry. He held a World Class University Chair Professorship at the Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea (2009-2013).

JJ is interested in the design & synthesis of coordination polymers & metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), crystal engineering, solid-state chemistry, materials and reactivity. He co-authored ‘Crystal Engineering – A Textbook’ with G.R. Desiraju (IISc) and A. Ramanan (IIT-Delhi). He also co-edited two books on crystal engineering with E.R.T. Tiekink. He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and Singapore National Institute of Chemistry. He holds editorial board membership in several journals including ACS Crystal Growth & Design and Nature Scientific Reports. He won several awards including Chemical Research Society of India, CRSI Medal (2020), Outstanding Chemist Award (2014), CRISP Award (2013), Outstanding Research Award (2011) and Best Scientist Award (2007). JJ was highlighted in Angewandte Author Profile (2014). He is the founder and an Organizing Committee member of Singapore National Crystal Growing Challenge (1997-2016). He is an international committee member of Worldwide IUCr Crystal Growing Competition for School Children since 2014. He extensively published over 500 original research papers, authoritative reviews and book chapters and over 250 opening, plenary, keynote and invited talks at national and international conferences. According to the recent Google Scholar his publications has been cited ~22,300 times with an h-index of 74. ORCID: 0000-0001-8302-0733 and Researcher ID: B-2541-2010

Dr Zhu Qiang obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Chemistry of National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2010. His Ph.D supervisor is Prof Lu Yixin at NUS. After graduation, he joined Albany Molecular Research Inc (AMRI, USA MNC) as a senior research scientist for 5 years, mainly working on contract research for various Pharm giants. In 2015, he joined The Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE, A*STAR) as a research scientist. Currently, he is the Department Head of Advanced Characterization and Instrumentation (ACI) and Head of Research Liaison Office (RLO) in IMRE, A*STAR. His research interests include phase change materials, functional polymers, and polymer nanocomposites. He has been researching chemical formulations for different industry partners in Buildings, Logistics, Machinery sectors, and others.