PROGRAMME & SPEAKERS

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PLENARY LECTURERS

  • LIDIA ARMELAO, National Research Council and University of Padova, Italy
    Lanthanide complexes for highly luminescent materials
  • HANNE DILIËN, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
    Innovative Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering programmes to Educate the Future Generation Changemakers
  • PHILIP GALE, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
    New Developments in Synthetic Anion Transporter Systems
  • LUCIA GARDOSSI, University of Trieste, Italy
    Enzymatic synthesis and structural modelling of bio-based oligoesters as an approach for the ecodesign of new sustainable polymers
  • ROBERT GYURCSÁNYI, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
    Pushing the limits of chemical sensing with synthetic ligands and nanostructures
  • SANDRO MATOSEVIC, Purdue University, USA
    Modulation of immune cells for immunotherapy
  • DANIELA MONTESARCHIO, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
    G.quadruplex-forming aptamers
  • IVO PIANTANIDA, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia
    One molecule to bind them all: organic dye simultaneously targeting DNA, RNA or proteins, for each target giving a selective response
  • ADRIJANA VINTER, Selvita, Croatia
    Solutions for Career Development and Mentorship in the Pharmaceutical Industry for Chemists

    Winner of the “Spiridion Brusina” award:
  • JANEZ PLAVEC, Kemijski inštitut, Slovenia
    DNA Tandem Repeats: NMR Structural Studies

INVITED LECTURERS

  • ROSALBA BELLINI, University of Applied Sciences, InHolland Amsterdam
    Unveiling Next-Gen Chemistry Education: Curriculum Innovations at Inholland University of Applied Sciences
  • ZVJEZDANA FINDRIK BLAŽEVIĆ, University of Zagreb, Croatia
    Development of industrial biotransformations by applying chemical engineering approach
  • ALEKSANDRA MARŠAVELSKI, University of Zagreb, Croatia
    Harnessing Ancestral Sequences to Improve the Solubility of Plastic-Degrading Enzymes
  • AGATA MICHALSKA, University of Warsaw, Poland
    Adding colour to ion sensing in solutions 
  • FRANCESCO MUTTI, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Exploring New Horizons in Biocatalysis: Leveraging Enzyme Engineering for Organic Synthesis, Biosensors Applications and Polymer Characterization
  • MIRJANA PEJIĆ BACH, University of Zagreb, Croatia
    Roadmap to Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry: From Baby Steps to Deployment
  • IVO RIETVELD, University of Rouen Normandy, France
    Chiral resolution, kinetics and thermodynamics in preferential crystallisation
  • NAOKI SUGIMOTO, Konan University Kobe, Japan
    “To B or not to B” in Nucleic Acids Chemistry
  • MATILDA ŠPRUNG, University of Split, Croatia
    New generation of quaternary ammonium compounds: The potent amphiphiles in combating bacterial resistance
  • HRVOJ VANČIK, University of Zagreb, Croatia
    Graph theoretical representation of chemical systems
  • IVANA VINKOVIĆ VRČEK, Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Croatia
    Selenium nanoparticles as drug delivery system for levodopa in the treatment Parkinson’s disease – in vitro evaluation

    Winner of the “Leopold Ružička” award:
  • TOMISLAV STOLAR, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, Germany
    Mechanochemistry: Fundamentals to Application

SECTION LECTURERS

  • Mirna Petković Didović: Nitroxoline: The Power of Chelation
  • Adrianna Szmulewicz: Chiral versus Achiral Assemblies in Multi-Stimuli Responsive Supramolecular Polymerization of Tetra-substituted Azobenzene Dye
  • Vladimir Stilinović: Bis(tribenzylammonium) Fluoride Receptor – Interplay of Strong and Weak Hydrogen Bonds Forming a Supramolecular Capsule
  • Jurica Novak: Innovative Approaches in Drug Design: From Molecular Dynamics to Neural Networks
  • Nand Kishore: Structure-Property-Energetics Relationships in Deriving Guidelines for Rational Drug Design: Biophysical Approach
  • Sara Krivačić: Automated Production of Solid-Contact Ion-Selective Electrodes: Polymeric Membrane Drying Assessment
  • Dominik Korol: Electroactive Molecularly Imprinted Polymers in Selective Sensing
  • Stjepan Dolić: Design and Characterisation of Perovskite Solar Cells
  • Mehmet Mervan Çakar: Harnessing the Power of PEP-Dependent Lyases: Kinetic Characterization and Model-based Optimization for N-Acetylneuraminic Acid Synthesis  
  • Marin Liović: Calorimetric Characterization of the “Golden Rain Experiment” in “Drought Season”
  • Antonija Ožegović: Tuning Chirality in Functional Assemblies: From Liquid Crystals to Supramolecular Structures in Water
  • Maria Kolympadi Markovic: Carbon Dioxide in the Synthesis of Organic Carbonates
  • Jurica Bauer: Teaching Chemistry in the New Bachelor “Regenerative Medicine and Technology
  • Krunoslav Užarević: Thermal Control of Milling Reactors for Advancing Preparative Mechanochemistry
  • Karlo Petrić: Designer Amphiphiles – Toward Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Systems for Organic Synthesis
  • Marija Cvetnić: Fishing in the Acetonitrile Sea: (Thio)urea-Calix[4]arenes as Anion Binders
  • Nawal El Hakawati: Calix-Based Receptors: From Fundamental Studies to Materials in Action  
  • Lukman Abdulra’uf: Development of QuEChERS/HPLC Technique for the Analysis of Veterinary Drug Residues in Beef Samples