Scientific Program
The conference will be organized into 15 plenary lectures (45 min. each), delivered by a series of internationally recognized speakers from academia and industry, 22 short talks (15 min., selected from the submitted abstracts by the scientific committee), 54 flash talks (10 mins, each selected from the submitted abstracts by the scientific committee) and three poster sessions. There will be prizes for the best communications, that will be awarded during the gala dinner on the 4th of September 2025.
The scientific committee will select the best posters and a prize will be awarded to the first author.
Presenters will be expected to place their poster in their attributed space by lunch-time on the 2nd of September and remove them by the coffee break on the last day (5th of September).
Confirmed Speakers


Prof. Oliver Kappe
University of Graz, Austria
Going with the Flow – The Use of Continuous Processing in Organic Synthesis


Dr. Neal Fazakerley
GSK, UK
Automated parallel chemistry approaches to driving efficiency in drug discovery
Biography
Prof. Sílvia Osuna
University of Girona, Spain
Can we rationally design efficient Nature-like enzymes?
Biography
Dr. Ruth Dorel
Genetech, USA
New small molecules for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases
Biography
Prof. Kelly Chibale
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Malaria and tuberculosis drug discovery underpinned by synthetic medicinal chemistry and chemical biology
Biography
Prof. Marisa Kozlowski
University of Pennslavania, USA
Oxygen Driven Fragment Coupling for the Synthesis of Natural Products and Antibacterials
Biography
Prof. Omar Yaghi
University of California: Berkeley, USA
Reticular Chemistry and ChatGPT for a Sustainable Future
Biography
Dr. Christian Winter
BASF
Heterocyclic fungicides from lead finding to industrial production
Biography
Prof. Carlos Afonso
University of Lisbon, Portugal
Synthetic transformations of biomass derived building blocks under flow conditions

Professor Tom Moody
Almac, UK
Metagenomes to Industrial enzyme applications for chemical synthesis
Biography
Dr. Nizar Haddad
Boehringer Ingelheim, USA
Novel Catalysis at Boehringer Ingelheim for API Processes
Biography
Prof. Veronique Gouverneur
Oxford University, UK
Rethinking Fluorine Chemistry with Global Challenges in Mind
Biography
Conference Timeplan
