Dr François-Xavier Coudert is a Senior Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), where his group applies computational chemistry methods at various scales to investigate the physical and chemical properties of nanoporous materials, and in particular stimuli-responsive materials with anomalous behaviour. He obtained his PhD from the Université Paris-Sud (France) in 2007, for his work on the properties of water and solvated electrons confined in zeolite nanopores. He worked as post-doctoral researcher at University College London (UK) on the growth of metal-organic frameworks on surfaces, before joining CNRS in 2008.
Dr Claire Hobday is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her group focuses on understanding structure-property relationships of functional materials via the application of pressure. Claire was awarded her PhD in 2017 from the University of Edinburgh, where she was under the supervision of Dr Stephen Moggach, working in the field of high-pressure crystallography, and then carried out a 2-year PDRA position in the group of Prof Tina Düren focusing on simulations of flexible MOFs and zeolites.
Dr Satoshi Horike is an Associate Professor at Kyoto University (Japan), where his group focuses on the physical properties of metal-organic hybrid frameworks under disordered states. He obtained a PhD from Kyoto University in 2007 and worked at UC Berkeley for two years as post-doctoral researcher. He has led his research group in Kyoto since 2017.
Dr Monique van der Veen obtained her PhD in 2010 at the University of Leuven under the supervision of Prof. Dirk De Vos and Prof. Thierry Verbiest. After a 3 years FWO postdoctoral fellowship, she started her own group at the TU Delft, where she is currently Associate Professor. She is an experimental scientist who seeks to unravel and control the dynamical behaviour of hybrid and framework materials. She aims to design better materials for electronics, catalysis and separations. In 2017 she was awarded an ERC Starting Grant, in 2018 the Athena Prize by the Dutch Science Foundation, and in 2020 a NWO Talent Programme Vidi grant.