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Nathan is a physicist by training and since starting at Johnson Matthey in 2010, he has strived to enable collaborators in R&D to make better decisions, sooner. His current role is to help offer a R&D-wide Lab Informatics Platform to make JM’s chemistry data FAIR.

As the Managing Director of the Steinbeis Consulting Center for Digital Transformation and Process Automation, I combine a solid engineering education with extensive experience as a software, automation system developer, and architect. In today's digital world, businesses are challenged to make ...

Dr Samantha Pearman-Kanza is a Senior Enterprise Fellow at the University of Southampton. She is a Pathfinder Lead on Process Recording for the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) Initiative - www.psdi.ac.uk. She is part of the AIChemy Hub Team (run out of Imperial College London and the...

Dr Ian Brotherston Interim Deputy Director for Innovation Funding at Innovate UK. This role is responsible for setting the strategy, and then delivering and maximising impact across the portfolio of Innovate UK grant products. The portfolio covers Smart, New Innovators, Analysis for...

Dr Courtney has 20 years of experience in laboratory instrumentation R&D and marketing, as a former director at PerkinElmer, as well as at Sartorius and Cap Gemini. He is a current director at SiLA (Standards in Laboratory Automation) and leads the European working group on Laboratory Robotics...

Dr Benjamin J Deadman is the Program Manager and Reaction Data Evangelist for the Open Reaction Database (ORD). He works closely with the synthetic and digital chemistry communities to support and encourage the sharing of organic reaction data in a structured format that enables downstream...

Jeremy Frey is a Professor of Physical Chemistry and the head of the Computational Systems Chemistry Group at the University of Southampton. He is also a pathfinder and work package lead on the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) Initiative. Before working at Southampton, he obtained his...

Dr Stephen Hilton is an Associate Professor at UCL School of Pharmacy, having previously worked as a Senior Lecturer and as an academic fellow at the School of Pharmacy, University of London. He previously carried out postdoctoral research at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and at UCL...

Jonathan Hirst is Professor in Computational Chemistry at the University of Nottingham. In 2020, he was awarded a Chair in Emerging Technologies by the Royal Academy of Engineering, focusing on research that will empower the development of next-generation molecules that chemical engineers and...

Dr Hemachandran Kannan is the Director of the AI Research Centre, Associate Dean of the School of Business, and Area Chair of the Analytics Department at Woxsen University. He is an ambassador of the AI Accelerator Institute and an Advisory Board member in many international and national companies...

Samira is the proactive Head of Operations at Solena Materials who leverages her rich educational background and extensive experience to enhance the operational effectiveness of this innovative biotechnology company. Holding an MBA, an MRes, and Bachelor's degrees in Economics and Biology, she...

Andrew has a background in environmental science, with experience of experimental research from his PhD assessing Chemical fate in the environment.  He has previously worked in the water industry but moved to pharmaceuticals in 2018 when he joined AstraZeneca. In that time, he has held a few...

Cindy has been working in the Biotech and Pharmaceutical industries for over 30 years.  During her career, Cindy has participated in numerous LIMS projects in roles ranging from subject matter expert to technical specialist as well as participating in various projects for Empower, SDMS, ELNs and a...

Ana Cavalcanti is a professor at the University of York and a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies. She leads RoboStar, a centre of excellence in Software Engineering for Robotics. The RoboStar approach to model-based software engineering compliments the current practice of...

Research Biography Specialism: Catalysis and Target-Oriented Synthetic Chemistry: Unlocking Reactivity and Selectivity Using Robotic Systems and Data AnalysisOur core interests are in the development and application of transition metal chemistry in mechanism-driven catalysis and synthetic...

Dr. Mohamed Mahmoud, is an Organic Chemistry Ph.D. Holder from Suez Canal University, he is working with Northern Area Technical Support Department as Sr. Lab Scientist, he has more than 15 years’ experience at Oil and gas analytical laboratories. He filed 7 patents with US Patent office and...

I am a Licensing Manager at Jisc, where I am responsible for identifying and negotiating the best agreements in digital innovations and technologies for our members. Prior to this, I worked in the scholarly publishing industry for ten years in various roles, from Head of Research Integrity to...