Ivan is currently studying towards his PhD in Chemistry at Imperial College London. His doctoral research activity focuses on the synthesis of ionic liquids and their application in catalysis. During his master’s degree, Ivan was also a student at the Scuola Normale Superiore, a small research-based University with an admission rate of approximatively five percent.

Maria is a researcher in Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and a Nicholas Kurti Junior Research fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford. Her research interests focus on chemistry of carbon nanomaterials, nanotechnology and bionanotechnology. She has authored over 20 publications in her research area in world-leading journals. Maria also teaches chemistry undergraduates at her college.

Ofentse specialises in Applied Chemistry, Materials Science and Electron Microscopy. His research work focuses on innovative and advanced in-situ gas-phase and ex-situ STEM-EELS and ADF imaging techniques in the characterization of metal catalysts in the Biomass-to-Liquid technology for the production of clean fuels using aberration-corrected electron microscopy. Ofentse holds a MSc Chemistry from Wits University in South Africa, as well as DPhil Materials from the University of Oxford.