Prof.  Carlos Geraldes

• 1. Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
• 2. CQC-IMS, Chemistry Department, University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Research Interests: MRI contrast agents; nanoplatforms as MRI-based theranostic systems; paramagnetic NMR.

Prof.  Dasan M. Thamattoor

Department of Chemistry, Colby College, 5765 Mayflower Hill, Waterville, ME, 04901, USA.

Research Interests: photochemistry; spectroscopy (transient absorption, laser flash photolysis, NMR, matrix isolation); computational chemistry; reaction mechanisms; and physical organic chemistry broadly defined.

Dr.  Farid Salama

NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, USA.

Research Interests: astrophysics; astrochemistry; astrobiology; astronomy; space missions; laboratory astrophysics; spectroscopy; interstellar medium; planetary science.

Prof. Dr.  Rosana Mariel Romano

CEQUINOR (UNLP, CCT-CONICET La Plata, associated with CICPBA)

Research Interests: matrix-isolation spectroscopy; photochemistry; vibrational spectroscopies (IR; Raman; SERS); reaction mechanisms and photochemical reaction mechanisms; molecular complexes and reactive intermediates; synthesis of small covalent compounds.

Prof.  Didier Begué

Faculty of Sciences, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Pau, France.

Research Interests: ab-initio; DFT calculations; multi-determinantal calculations; quantum chemistry; quantum mechanics; electronic structure; computational chemistry; spectroscopy; perturbational and variational approaches; molecular dynamics; molecular modeling; molecular dynamics simulation.

Prof.  Hongfu Yuan

College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China.

Research Interests: molecular spectrum; multivariate analysis; material properties; spectral analysis techniques; manufacture and application of instruments integrating molecular spectroscopy; atomic spectroscopy; fluorescence spectroscopy; and multivariate analysis.

Prof.  Jaan Laane

Department of Chemistry , Texas A&M University, College Station (TX), USA.

Research Interests: auantum chemistry; quantum mechanics; density functional theory; DFT calculations; chemical physics; FTIR analysis; electronic structure; raman spectroscopy; computational chemistry; molecular modeling.

Dr.  Alberto Mezzetti

Laboratoire de Réactivité de Surface, University of Sorbonne, Paris, France.

Research Interests: time-resolved FTIR spectroscopy; photoinduced chemical reactions in natural photosynthetic protein complexes; photochemical reactions of naturally-occurring molecules.

Dr.  Sonia Melandri

Department of Chemistry, University of Bologna, Italy.

Research Interests: molecular spectroscopy; Supersonic expansions; molecular complexes; non-covalent interactions; hydrogen bond; halogen bond; biomolecules; large amplitude motions.

Dr.  Matteo Tommasini

Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering, Milan, Italy.

Research Interests: vibrational spectroscopy; quantum chemistry; materials science and biotechnology.

Prof.  Jan Lundell

Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Research Interests: novel noble gas compounds; low temperature matrix isolation spectroscopy; light‐induced chemistry and especially on the role of weak chemical interactions in guiding and directing chemical processes.

Prof.  Gulce Ogruc Ildiz

Faculty of Science and Letters, Department of Physics, Istanbul Kultur University, Atakoy Campus, 34156, Istanbul, Turkey.

Research Interests: photochemistry; molecular cryo- and biospectroscopy; quantum chemistry; molecular structure; photophysics; chemometrics.

Dr.  Carlos Cabezas

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain.

Research Interests: molecular spectroscopy; molecular astrophysics; electronic structure; rotational spectroscopy; free radicals; astrochemistry.

Prof.  Weitao Yang

Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham (NC), USA.

Research Interests: theoretical chemistry; density functional theory;  electronic excitations; spectroscopy.

Prof.  Manadu Abe

Department of Chemistry, Hiroshima University, Japan.

Research Interests: photochemistry; reactive intermediates.

Dr.  Sándor Góbi

Department of Chemistry, Eötvös University Faculty of Science, Budapest, Hungary.

Research Interests: laboratory astrochemistry; matrix isolation; photochemistry; molecular cryospectroscopy; molecular structure; conformational analysis; quantum chemistry.

Prof.  Abdelhedi Aydi

Department of Physics, University of Sfax, Tunisia.

Research Interests: solid state physics; dielectric and spectroscopic properties of materials; optics of materials; ferroelectric; puroelectric and piezoelectric ceramics; molecular structure; Raman; infrared and dielectric spectroscopy.

Prof.  Kazimierz Orzechowski

Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Wroclaw, Poland.

Research Interests: physical chemistry; physics and chemistry of dielectrics; phase transitions; critical phenomena; wave absorbing materials; hydrogen bond; biomedical applications of dielectric spectrosciopy; dielectric spectroscopy.

Prof.  António Varandas

Department of Chemistry, University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Research Interests: potential energy surfaces; electronic structure calculations; intermolecular forces; chemical dynamics; non-adiabatic effects; chemistry of atmospheric ozone.

Prof.  Sebastian Riedel

Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Free University of Berlin, Germany.

Research Interests: halogen chemistry; matrix-isolation spectroscopy; quantum-chemical calculations; high oxidation states; sustainable chemistry.

Dr.  Justyna Krupa

Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Wroclaw, Poland.

Research Interests: photochemistry; low-temperature matrix isolation; molecular complexes; hydrogen bonding; molecular structure; quantum chemistry.

Prof.  Elena Savchenko

Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Research Interests: spectroscopy of condensed matter; physics of cryocrystals; radiation physics and chemistry; material and surface sciences.