Goddard has authored over 1,752 publications, achieving an H-index of 206 and an i10-index of 1523, along with holding 36 issued patents and 18 pending. His remarkable achievements have earned him numerous prestigious honors, including election to the National Academy of Sciences (1984), the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (1986), and fellowships in the American Physical Society (1988), American Association for the Advancement of Science (1990), and the Royal Society of Chemistry (2008). Among his many awards are the American Chemical Society Award for Computers in Chemistry (1988), the Feynman Prize for Nanotechnology Theory (1999), NASA Space Sciences Awards (2000, 2009, 2012), the ACS Award for Theoretical Chemistry (2007), and the Tolman Prize (2000). He has also received international recognition, including an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University (2004), serving as a World Class University Professor at KAIST (2009–2013), and as IISc-DST Centenary Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2015). In recent years, he has been consistently named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2018–2021) and ranked among the world’s top chemistry scientists by Research.com, reaching #13 globally in 2023. His latest honors include the Horizon Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2024 and a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2025 Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Conference.

Sason Shaik Born on September 1st 1948 in Bagdad, Iraq. Director of the Lise Meitner-Minerva Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry. Head of a group of theoretical chemistry in the Institute of Chemistry of the Hebrew University, Israel B.Sc. M.Sc. Bar Ilan University (1974); Ph.D. The University of Washington (1978); Postdoc Cornell University (1979); Fulbright Fellow (1974-1979); The Israel Chemical Society (ICS) Award for the Outstanding Young Chemist (1988); The Kahlbaum Lectureship (The University of Basel, 1988); Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Award (1995-1999, 2014-5); The A. D. Bergmann Prize (1995); The Troisieme Cycle Lecturer of the French Speaking Swiss (Friebourg, Berne, Neuchatel, Geneve,1995; Basel, 1997); The ICS Excellence Award (2000); The Kolthoff Prize (2001); Elected to the Scientific Board of WATOC (2002); Fellow of the AAAS (2003); The Kurt -Alder Lectureship (University of Köln, 2004); The Minnesota Graduate-Students Lectureship (The University of Minnesota, 2004); The Charles Coulson Lectureship (University of Georgia, Athens, 2005); The Christmas Lectureship (University of Heidelberg, 2006); The IQBC Lectureship (Prague, 2007); Leonard N. Owen Lectureship (Imperial College, 2010); The International Lectureship Series for Computational Science (Cape Town University, 2010); The Frontiers in Bioinorganic Chemistry Lectureship (Max Planck Institute in Mülheim, 2012); The Scrocco Lectureship (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa , 2013); The Lu Jiaxi Lectureship (The State Key laboratory, Xiamen, China, 2013); Selected to be included in "175 faces in chemistry" (The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013); The Schrödinger Medal (2007); WATOC Fellow (2007); The August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann-Dekmünze (Medal) (German Chemical Society, 2012).Explored and established rules for the effects of oriented external electric fields on chemical reactivity of enzymatic and organic reactions. Development of models for halogen bonds, CH---HC interactions, and other weak interactions. Questioning "common wisdom": the nature of the π-electronic systems of benzene and other conjugated systems; the limitations and significances of the Bronsted coefficients, slopes of Hammett plots, Reactivity-Selectivity Principle, Bell-Evans-Polanyi Principle, etc.; the glass ceiling of multiple bonding in main elements.

Prof. Dr. Xu, born in 1961, he received his B.S. in Chemistry at Jiangxi University (1982), Master (1985) and PhD (1988) degree in Physical Chemistry at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Academia Sinica. Started his career as a professor at Dalian University of Technology in 1992, worked as a visiting scientist at Northwestern University (USA, 1995 & 1997) and Georgia Tech (USA, 1996), he moved to Tsinghua University in 1998. He has also worked as a research student at Hokkaido University (Japan, 1986-1988), a short-term visiting professor at UC Berkeley (2002) and Hong Kong Baptist University (2003). His name appears on the Editorial Board of Applied Catalysis A-Gernal and International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology, International Advisory Board of Acid-Base Catalysis Group (ABC). He works in the field of Heterogeneous Catalysis with main interest on the physical chemistry aspects of new catalytic materials and catalytic reactions.

Dr. Pu-Xian Gao is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Connecticut (UConn). His research focuses on bridging the gap between fundamental nanomaterials science and engineering and practical applications in fields such as energy, environment, and biotechnology. Professor Gao has received several honors, including being a founding member of the UConn Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors (2017) and induction into the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) in 2017 for his contributions to nanomaterials research. He was awarded the United Technologies Corporation Professorship in Engineering Innovation at UConn in 2015 and was recognized at the Boston Patent Law Association's Invented Here! Event in 2014 for a patent. His accolades also include an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship (2013), the Outstanding Faculty Award from UConn's Department of Materials Science & Engineering (2013), and the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from Beijing University (2012). Pu-Xian Gao's research group is dedicated to translating scientific discoveries into practical nanotechnology and collaborating with industry for scalable manufacturing and commercialization.

Professor Guallar performed his undergraduate at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), with a major in Chemistry, followed by a joined PhD in physical chemistry at UC Berkeley and Autonomous University of Barcelona. Afterwards, he moved for a postdoctoral research position (2000-2003) to Columbia University in New York City. In 2003 he got a teanured position as an assistant Professor at the Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics department at the School of Medicine in Washington University in St. Louis. In 2006 he was appointed ICREA Research Professor in the Life Science Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), were he has been developing his research group. In 2016 he co-founded Nostrum Biodiscovery, the first spin-off from the BSC. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious grants, such as an advanced ERC, having trained 20 PhD students and published more than 200 papers.