Molecular Architectonics and Nanoarchitectonics
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Dr. Thimmaiah Govindaraju is a professor at JNCASR, Bengaluru, India. He received his M.Sc in chemistry (2000) from Bangalore University and Ph.D. (2005) from the National Chemical Laboratory and University of Pune, Pune, India. He carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA (2005–2006) and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany (2006–2008). His research interests are at the interface of chemistry, biology, and biomaterials science, and include molecular architectonics, nanoarchitectonics, silk-inspired biomaterials, upcycling cyclic dipeptides, diagnostic therapy and Alzheimer’s disease. He has published more than 120 papers, several book chapters, and 4 books, and holds more than 10 patents.
Dr. Katsuhiko Ariga is the Leader of the Supermolecules Group and Principal Investigator of the World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS). He was born in 1962, and received his Ph.D. from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT) in 1990. He was appointed as a professor at The University of Tokyo in 2017. His research field is based on nanoarchitectonics, supermolecular chemistry, surface science, including the boundary research areas of organic chemistry, physical chemistry, biochemistry, and materials chemistry. He has published 700 or more scientific papers and his H-index exceeds 100.
