Annual program assembles international field of
up-and-coming researchers shaping the future of scientific
information and innovation
COLUMBUS, Ohio,
May 15, 2018
/PRNewswire/ -- CAS, a division of the American Chemical
Society, announced today the participants selected for the 2018 CAS
SciFinder Future Leaders program. The international Ph.D. students
and postdoctoral researchers will visit CAS headquarters this
August to collaborate on new initiatives to support the scientific
community, including CAS's innovative workflow solution,
SciFindern.
The CAS SciFinder Future Leaders program aims to expand
professional networks among emerging researchers, increase
knowledge and exchange ideas about the role of information within
the research process, and share lessons from industry and academic
leaders about the role of science in the global economy, academia
and the media.
"CAS is privileged to connect the next generation of
scientists with other leading researchers from across the globe and
expand their professional research skills," said Chris McCue, vice president of marketing at CAS.
"Participants were chosen based on their impressive academic
accomplishments and the scientific merit of their research. We are
honored to host the 2018 class and learn from their
experience."
The program has seen rapid growth and is recognized as the
premier program of its kind. This year, CAS received the highest
number of applications across the widest geographical range since
its inception in 2010. Alumni from this program have been a part of
noteworthy scientific innovations and research, and are influencing
future scientists through their demonstrated leadership.
The 2018 CAS SciFinder Future Leaders are:
- Martine I. Abboud,
University of Oxford, United
Kingdom
- Manuel Ahumada Escandon,
Massachusetts General Hospital,
Harvard Medical School, United States
- Jennifer Apell, ETH
Zürich, Switzerland
- Lučka Bibič, University of East
Anglia, United Kingdom
- Dario Cambiè, Eindhoven University of Technology,
Netherlands
- Gari V. Ccana-Ccapatinta, University of São Paulo,
Brazil
- Chong-You Chen, National
Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Tristan Clemons,
University of Western Australia,
Australia
- Alexander Cook, Istituto
Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
- Justine N. deGruyter, Scripps
Research Institute, United
States
- Jie Deng, University of Freiburg, Germany
- Dana DiScenza,
University of Rhode Island,
United States
- Jesús Esteban Serrano, Max
Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Germany
- Madison Fletcher,
University of California, Irvine,
United States
- Gabriel dos Passos Gomes,
Florida State University, United States
- Jesus Alberto Jaimes
Arriaga, Universidad de Buenos
Aires, Argentina
- Christopher Lemon,
University of California, Berkeley,
United States
- Yuanhe Li, Peking
University, China
- Felicia Phei Lin Lim,
Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia
- Victor Pui-Yan Ma,
Emory University, United States
- Jana L. Markley,
Washington University in St. Louis, United
States
- Abby-Jo Payne,
University of Calgary,
Canada
- Yunyan Qiu, Northwestern University, United States
- Yoshito Takahashi,
Keio University, Japan
- Siddulu Naidu Talapaneni, Global Innovative Center for
Advanced Nanomaterials (GICAN), The University of Newcastle (UON), Australia
- César A. Urbina-Blanco, Ghent University, Belgium
- Galina Viryasova, Moscow State University, Russia
- Julian G. West,
California Institute of Technology,
United States
- Anita Yadav, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India
- Qi Zhang, East China University of Science and
Technology, China
About CAS
CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, is
dedicated to the ACS vision of improving people's lives through the
transforming power of chemistry. The CAS team of highly trained
scientists finds, collects and organizes all publicly disclosed
substance information, creating the world's most valuable
collection of content that is vital to innovation worldwide.
Scientific researchers, patent professionals and business leaders
rely on a suite of research solutions from CAS that enables
discovery today to fuel tomorrow's innovation. To learn more
about the CAS SciFinder Future Leaders program, visit
www.cas.org/futureleaders.
CAS Media Contact:
Tina Tomeo
P: 614-447-3600
cas-pr@cas.org
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