12th Eurasia Conference on Chemical Sciences

Nick Hadjiliadis was born in Athens, Greece, and received his B.Sc. (Hons) in Chemistry from the University of Athens in 1966. His M.Sc. (1972) and Ph.D (1975) degrees were obtained from the University of Montreal, Canada. In 1975, he joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Athens as an assistant professor and subsequently the Department of Chemistry at the University of Ioannina, where he has been a full professor since 1987. He has been Emeritus Professor of Chemistry since 2008. His research interests have been mainly in the general area of metal ions in biological systems. He was among the founders, and was subsequently the chairman, of the graduate program in bioinorganic chemistry at the University of Ioannina, in which almost all Greek university chemistry departments participated. He was also the founder of the journal Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications and its editor-in-chief for several years.

Curt Wentrup was educated at the University of Copenhagen (Cand. Scient., 1966; D.Sc., 1976) and the Australian National University (Ph.D., 1969). He held an assistant professorship at the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, and a professorship at the Universität Marburg, Germany, before returning to Australia in 1985 as Professor and Chair of Organic Chemistry and head of the organic chemistry section at the University of Queensland, where he is now Emeritus Professor. Since 2009, he has been Chair of the National Committee for Chemistry of the Australian Academy of Science. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and has published over 300 research papers. His research interests are in the fields of both experimental and computational chemistry of reactive intermediates and unusual molecules, flash vacuum thermolysis, and photochemistry, and he collaborates extensively with researchers in Australia and Europe.