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Dr. Jesum Alves Fernandes is an Associate Professor in the School of ÉîÒ¹¸£Àû¹ú²ú¾«Æ· at the University of Nottingham, UK.
He obtained his PhD in Materials Science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (2014). He carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Victoria (Canada) and the University of Nottingham, where he progressed from Nottingham Research Fellow to Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2023.
His group develops atomically precise metal catalysts via on-surface assembly for catalytic applications, addressing critical energy challenges, with a particular focus on breakthroughs in ammonia synthesis and hydrogen production from ammonia.

Dr Matthew Quesne is a Lecturer in Computational Materials ÉîÒ¹¸£Àû¹ú²ú¾«Æ· for a Sustainable Future at the University of Leeds. His group  focuses on modelling catalysts at multiple length and time scales. He is involved in the development of new multi-scales methods, with a focus on abundant catalysts for greenhouse gas upgrading. Working closely with operando experiments, he focuses on reconciling theory with artefacts in real world catalysts. His work is highly multi-disciplinary and explore catalysis across the traditional heterogenous/homogenous/biocatalytic divides.  Matthew also leads the taught chemistry component of the new ÉîÒ¹¸£Àû¹ú²ú¾«Æ· + AI module, equipping students to pair physical insight with modern data and automation in sustainable catalysis.

Prof. Karsten Reuter is Director of the Theory Department of the Fritz Haber Institute (FHI) of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Germany. He did his doctoral studies on theoretical surface physics in Erlangen, Madrid and Milwaukee. Following research experiences at the FHI in Berlin and the FOM Institute in Amsterdam, he headed an independent Max Planck Research Group. From 2009 to 2020 Karsten was Chair for Theoretical ÉîÒ¹¸£Àû¹ú²ú¾«Æ· at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He held visiting professorships at Stanford (2014), MIT (2018), and Imperial College London (2019), and is a Distinguished Affiliated Professor at TUM as well as Honorary Professor at the Free University and Humboldt University in Berlin. He is an ELLIS fellow, and serves on multiple advisory and supervisory boards, including the Helmholtz Center Berlin and the German Physical Society.