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Ivo Rietveld
Ivo Rietveld
Action Chair
Universite De Rouen Normandie Rue Thomas Becket 1 Mont Saint Aignan
France
France

Ivo Rietveld has obtained his PhD on the physical properties of dendrimers in 2000 at the University of Leiden. He has carried out post-doctoral research on electrospray of water at the University of Delft and in 2001 and 2002 he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania on dendrimer encapsulated porphyrins for non-invasive oxygen probes in blood and tissue. From 2003 to 2007, he worked at the University of Kyoto on the fabrication of thin ferroelectric polymer films by electrospray deposition. In 2007, he was hired as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University Paris Descartes with as main research subject thermodynamic stability of active pharmaceutical ingredients in which he is still active as an associate professor. In 2017, he became a member of the laboratory “Sciences et Méthodes Séparatives” at the University of Rouen. His research subjects cover thermodynamic stability of organic materials, resolution of enantiomer mixtures, crystallisation and the stabilisation of metastable forms such as amorphous mixtures and metastable polymorphs. Since September 2023, he leads the COST Action BEST-CSP as its Chair together with Doris Braun from Innsbruck University as its vice-Chair.

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Doris Braun
Action Vice-Chair
University of Innsbruck
Austria
Austria

Aleksandra Masulovic
Aleksandra Masulovic
Science Communication Coordinator
Innovation Center of Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy in Belgrade
Serbia
Serbia

Dr. Mašulović, currently a Research Associate at the University of Belgrade's Innovation Centre, possesses expertise in synthesizing and characterizing heterocyclic molecules, particularly azo dyes. She has received a MSCA Postdoctoral fellowship 2023 and she will continue her research using supramolecular approach to obtain novel functional materials at the University of Zaragoza, Spain from September 2024. She obtained her PhD in October 2022. by defening theases titled: Multifunctional derivatives of zwitterionic 2-pyridones and their potential application. Her work, encopresis of both fundamental and applied aspects of organic synthesis, involving optimizing synthetic pathways, supramolecular chemistry, studying physical and chemical properties in order to ensure the applicability of compounds. As an early career researcher, Dr. Mašulović has been engaged in project management, laboratory work, data analysis, and various national and international collaborations, showcasing adaptability and teamwork in a multinational context. She was a guest researcher at Faculty of Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen Germany (September 2022.), as well as at Rennes Institute of Chemical Sciences, University of Rennes, Rennes, France (June 2023.). As a master’s student she was an intern at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan (June-September 2015.). Dr. Mašulović also has a teaching background, wherein she worked as a chemistry teacher at Stojan Cerović High School in Nikšić, Montenegro (2016-2018.) and supervised graduate and master's students. Additionally, she has demonstrated exceptional organizational skills through the successful coordination of various promotional events such as National Science Day, Open doors day at the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, Escape room at the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy. Dr. Mašulović excels in communicating technical concepts to both academic and non-academic audiences, holding a Certificate in Science Communication from the Centre for Science Communication of the Republic of Serbia and lecturing exceptional high-school students at PRONA (Montenegrin Center for Science Promotion).

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Alicia Dominguez-Martin
Science Communication Coordinator
Universidad de Granada Faculty of Pharmacy
Spain
Spain

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Michaela Romanini
Grant Awarding Coordinator
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Spain
Spain

Nemanja Trisovic
Nemanja Trisovic
WG1 Leader
Faculty Of Technology And Metallurgy University Of Belgrade
Serbia
Serbia

Nemanja Trišović is an Associated Professor at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy. He is an organic chemist with specialization in supramolecular chemistry. Prof. Trišović obtained a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry and Chemical Technology from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy in 2012. He performed a postdoctoral research in the field of liquid crystal chemistry at the Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics in Budapest in 2014. Prof. Trišović received the „Dr. Dubravko Rodić“ award of the Serbian Crystallographic Society for remarkable success in the field of crystallography in 2023. So far, he has been conducting three projects of bilateral scientific and technological cooperation and established several international collaborations. The research interests of prof. Trišović have been oriented towards the ability of organic molecules to establish non-covalent interactions in solid state, solution and biological systems. The activities of his research group are focused on determination of relationship between the molecular and crystal structure of the pharmacollogicaly active compounds, resolution of enantiomer mixtures and development of supramolecular materials.

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Ermelinda Eusébio
WG2 Leader
University of Coimbra
Portugal
Portugal

M. Ermelinda S. Eusébio received her PhD in Chemistry (Chemical Thermodynamics) in 1995 from the University of Coimbra and is currently an Associate Professor at the Chemistry Department of this University. Her initial research focused on determining and interpreting thermodynamic properties of the solution and solvation processes of polar non-ionic compounds. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow, 1996-1997, at the Centre de Thermodinamique et MicroCalorimétrie of the CNRS, Marseille, France, where she carried out research into the energetics of intra- and intermolecular bonds in organic compounds, using experimental methods of thermal analysis, combustion calorimetry and vaporization/sublimation calorimetry. She is currently responsible for the Laboratory of Thermodynamics and Solid State Chemistry at the Coimbra Chemistry Center/Institute of Molecular Sciences. In her current research, she applies a thermodynamics-based approach, using thermal analysis methods, complemented by spectroscopic and computational methods, to investigate solid forms of organic compounds, with emphasis on active pharmaceutical ingredients.

Tom Leyssens
Tom Leyssens
WG3 Leader
Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)
Belgium
Belgium

Michal Fulem
Michal Fulem
WG4 Leader
University of Chemistry and Technology Prague
Czechia
Czechia

Michal Fulem is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (UCT Prague). He received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from UCT Prague in 2004. He then carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Porto, Portugal (with M.J.S. Monte and L.M.N.B.F. Santos, 2005-2006) and at the University of Alberta, Canada (with John M. Shaw, 2006-2008), as well as short-term research stays at NIST, USA (with Robert F. Berg, 2010-2012). His research interests include both experimental and theoretical investigations of the thermodynamic properties and phase behavior of organic compounds and complex mixtures, the rational design of drug delivery systems by integrating theoretical modeling with experimental approaches, the design of experimental setups and methodologies for phase behavior and calorimetric studies, and the development of thermodynamic reference data. He has received several national and international awards, including the IACT Doctorate Award for Excellence in Thermodynamics in 2006 and the Award of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic in 2004. He has authored and co-authored more than 120 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and served as principal investigator of several national or international research grants. Since September 2023, he has been the leader of the Working Group 4 within the COST Action BEST-CSP.

Sally Price
Sarah Price
University College London
United Kingdom
United Kingdom

Sally, officially Sarah, Price gained a PhD in theoretical chemist at the University of Cambridge in 1980 under the supervision of Anthony Stone, specialising in deriving models of the forces between polyatomic molecules, such as hydrogen, from their wavefunctions. After a year as a postdoc at University of Chicago, she returned to Cambridge to work as a postdoc and then as a Royal Society University Research Fellow before moving to University College London (UCL) as a lecturer in 1989 whilst expecting her second child. Throughout this time she worked on applying the theory of intermolecular forces to small organic molecules, and at UCL, she started developing a code for using distributed multipoles and other anisotropic atom-atom potentials for modelling organic crystal structures of rigid molecules. This formed the basis of an early Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) method, and her group have participated in all the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre’s blind tests of CSP. Starting in 2004, Sally led the Basic Technology Project “Control and Prediction of the Organic Solid State” www.cposs.org.uk, developing the theory and computer codes to model the organic solid state in collaborating with lading experimental organic solid state chemists, pharmaceutical scientists, theoretical physicists and computational scientists. Sally was awarded he RSC Interdisciplinary Prize in 2015 and elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 2017 in recognition of the value of this collaborative work that has in revealing the complexities of organic crystallisation. She is delighted that BEST_CSP will be providing sound experimental data to help validate and develop theoretical methods for free energies and other properties needed for the reliable application of CSP.

Jonas Nyman
Jonas Nyman
WG6 Leader
The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
United Kingdom
United Kingdom

Dr Nyman currently holds a Research and Applications Scientist position at the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, focusing on computational chemistry, crystal structure prediction and developing new ideas and methods in solid state chemistry to benefit the scientific community. He obtained two Bachelor and one Masters degree in chemical engineering and biotechnology at the University of Borås in Sweden. He didn’t exactly follow the standard curriculum, adding extra courses like a summer school in analytical chemical instrumentation in Saigon, Vietnam, MATLAB programming at the University of Uppsala, and even one course from the Swedish school for library and information science. He published his first paper, on how yeast cells and Zygomycetes moulds can be made to stick together in large clumps, while still an undergrad. He then switched to computational chemistry and specifically crystal structure prediction, earning a PhD under the supervision of Prof Graeme Day in Southampton. After defending his thesis in 2017, Dr Nyman moved to Indianapolis for a postdoc at Eli-Lilly, focusing on bringing computational crystal structure prediction into their solid form selection process. He then set up his own consulting firm in Sweden, winning contracts for molecular simulations from the Swedish Energy Agency and Eli Lilly. In 2022 he joined the CCDC, working from home in Karlskoga, Sweden. In his spare time, he investigates the unsolved 1986 murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, having contributed his research to several podcasts, books, documentary films and conferences over the years.

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