Bruno Linclau graduated from the University of Ghent, Belgium in 1992. His undergraduate thesis was carried out at Leicester University as an ERASMUS exchange student with Dr P. R. Jenkins during his final year. Back in Ghent, he joined the group of Pr. M. Vandewalle for his PhD (1992-1996, funded by the Belgian « National Fund of Scientific Research »), where he completed the total synthesis of several Vitamin D analogues. This was followed by a postdoctoral stay with Pr. D. P. Curran in Pittsburgh PA (USA) (1997-1999), with a fellowship from the « Belgian American Educational Foundation » and from the University of Pittsburgh. There he worked on fluorous chemistry applications in combinatorial chemistry and developed a fluorous scavenger approach illustrated with automated solution phase parallel synthesis of urea libraries. He joined the Chemistry at Southampton University as a lecturer in August 1999, followed by a promotion to Senior Lecturer in 2005, to Reader in 2013, and to Professor in 2015. He is Head of the Organic Chemistry Section. His current research projects involve organofluorine chemistry, with a focus on investigating how fluorination of organic compounds can modify their physical properties, and a particular focus on fluorinated carbohydrates.

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/chemistry/about/staff/linclau.page

Carme Rovira is an ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona (UB, Dept. Química Orgànica). She did part of her PhD research in USA (North Carolina State University and Southern Illinois University) and obtained her PhD degree in Chemistry from the UB in 1995, working with J. J. Novoa. Afterwards, she spent three years (1996-1998) as postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute (Stuttgart, Germany), working with M. Parrinello. In 2002 she obtained a Ramón y Cajal position and moved to the Parc Científic de Barcelona and in 2003 she received an award from the Generalitat de Catalunya (« Distinció de la Generalitat per la promoció de la recerca universitaria », young scientist category). In 2007 she was appointed ICREA Research Professor and in 2012 she moved to the Department of Chemistry of the UB. Dr. Rovira is the author of more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals, mainly in the fields of Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Biology. In the last few years, her research has been focused on hemeproteins (peroxidases and catalases) and carbohydrate-active enzymes.

https://www.icrea.cat/Web/ScientificStaff/Carme-Rovira-Virgili-411

Jeroen Codée was born in 1975, studied chemistry at Leiden University, where he received his masters degree in synthetic organic chemistry in 1999. He continued his education as a PhD student at Leiden University, under the guidance of Jacques van Boom and Stan van Boeckel and elaborated the subject of oligosaccharide synthesis with a focus on thioglycosides and glycosaminoglycans. He defended his thesis in 2004, and was then a postdoctoral fellow at the ETH Zürich with Pr. Peter Seeberger. He was then appointed as Assistant professor at Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Netherlands. His research interests include glycobiology, carbohydrate chemistry and automated synthesis.

http://biosyn.lic.leidenuniv.nl/people/codee

Mikael Bols was born in 1961 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He received his M.Sc. (1985) and Ph.D. (1988) from the Technical University of Denmark under the supervision of Pr. Inge Lundt. After a postdoctoral stay in 1988-1989 at Queen’s University, Canada, with Pr. Walter Szarek, he joined Leo Pharmaceutical Products, where he was a research chemist from 1989 to 1991. He then returned to an assistant professorship at the Technical University of Denmark. In 1994 he did a sabbatical stay at Columbia University in Pr. Gilbert Stork’s group. In 1995 he went to Aarhus University, where in 2000 he became a full professor. Finally, in 2007 he assumed his present position as head of the chemistry department at the University of Copenhagen. His research interests are medicinal chemistry, carbohydrates, and artificial enzymes.

http://research.ku.dk/search/?pure=en/persons/201563