Prof. Wonwoo Nam, Associate editor of Chemical Science, from Ewha Womans University, Korea, Dongho Kim from Yonsei University, Korea, Ken-Tsung Wong from National Taiwan University and Zhaomin Hou from Organometallic Chemistry Laboratory and Center for Sustainable Resource Science, RIKEN, Japan, came for a visit on Dec. 5th, 2017.
In the morning of Dec. 6th, Prof. Wonwoo Nam delivered a lecture entitled "Biomimetic Metal-Oxygen Intermediates in Dioxygen Activation Chemistry".
Later, Prof. Dongho Kim delivered a lecture entitled "Hückel, Möbius, Baird and 3-Dimensional Aromaticity in Expanded Porphyrins".
Between the two lectures, the teachers and students of Xiamen University took a photo with Prof. Wonwoo Nam and Prof. Dongho Kim.
In the afternoon of Dec. 6th, our group had several academic discussions and meetings with Prof. Wonwoo Nam, Dongho Kim and Ken-Tsung Wong.
In the morning of Dec. 7th, Prof. Ken-Tsung Wong delivered a lecture entitled "Intramolecular or Intermolecular Charge Transfer Approaches for Highly Efficient TADF Materials and OLEDs".
Later, Prof. Zhaomin Hou delivered a lecture entitled "Dinitrogen Activation and Related Chemical Transformations by Molecular Titanium Hydride Clusters".
Wonwoo Nam was born in Seoul, Korea. He received his B.S. (Honors) degree in Chemistry from California State University, Los Angeles and his Ph.D. degree in Inorganic Chemistry from UCLA under the direction of Professor Joan S. Valentine in 1990. After one year postdoctoral experience at UCLA, he became an Assistant Professor at Hong Ik University in 1991. He moved to Ewha Womans University in 1994, where he is presently a Distinguished Professor of Ewha Womans University and a director of Center for Biomimetic Systems. His current research focuses on the mechanistic studies of dioxygen activation and formation by biomimetic models of heme and nonheme iron monooxygenases and Photosystem II. His research activities have been highly recognized; for example, he has been the recipient of many awards and an invited speaker at international meetings. He has been active in organizing or helping to put together international conferences. He is also devoted to the Society for Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC) as an elected general secretary. He serves as an Associate Editor of Chemical Science (RSC) and as an Editorial Advisory Board member for a number of journals.
Dongho Kim received his B.S. degree from Seoul National University in 1980, and Ph.D. degree from Washington University with Prof. Dewey Holten in 1984. He did his postdoctoral research associate with Prof. Thomas G. Spiro at Princeton University. He is now a Professor at Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University. His research interests focus on ultrafast time‐resolved spectroscopy and single‐molecule spectroscopy and functional π‐electronic systems.
Ken-Tsung Wong received his B.S. degree from Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan in 1989, and Ph.D. degree from National Taiwan University, Taiwan in 1993. After postdoctoral studies at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA (1995–1996) and Univesite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France (1996-1998), he joined National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He is a Professor at National Taiwan University, Taiwan (2006-present). His research interests focus on Synthesis and Molecular Design of Organic Materials for Optoelectronic Applications and Organic Nano Materials.
Zhaomin Hou is a Group Director and Deputy Center Director of the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science at Wako, Saitama, Japan. He also holds joint appointments as Director of the Organometallic Chemistry Laboratory at RIKEN and as Professor at Saitama University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Dalian University of Technology (Thousand Talent Programof China). He received his B.Sc. in 1982 from China University of Petroleum and his Ph.D. in 1989 from Kyushu University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Windsorwith Professor Douglas Stephanin 1991-1993. He is a recipient of the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work (2007), the Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Award (2007), the JSPS Prize (2007), the Rare Earth Society of Japan Award (2009), the Award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (2012), the Chinese Chemical Society Yaozeng Huang Award in Organometallic Chemistry (2014), and the Nagoya Silver Medal (2015). Dr. Hou’s research focuses on the development of new catalysts, new reactions and new functional materials,including C-H functionalization and small molecule activation.
