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After reading for a Bachelor of Science (Honors) degree in chemistry from St. Stephens College in Delhi, Ram Seshadri researched for a year in the group of Professor C. N. R. Rao FRS in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, before starting in the PhD program and working in the area of carbon materials. Following graduation in 1995, he carried out post-doctoral research in the CNRS lab of Professor Bernard Raveau in Caen, and in the lab of Professor Wolfgang Tremel at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz. In 1999, he started his independent academic career at the Indian Institute of Science, before moving to Santa Barbara in August 2002. Ram is now Professor in the Materials Department and in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California Santa Barbara, where he researches structure–morphology–property relations in functional inorganic materials. In recent years, Ram has contributed to a better understanding of the behavior of lone pairs of heavy main group elements in solids, the preparation and magnetism of oxide nanoparticles, the problem of diluted magnetic oxide semiconductors, and multifunctional magnetic materials. Research in his group is characterized by the close interplay of materials preparation, sophisticated structural analysis, first-principles calculations and magnetic and transport measurements. Ram's contributions have been recognized through a National Science Foundation Career Award and by the American Chemical Society through the 2005 ExxonMobil Solid State Chemistry Faculty Fellowship. Ram has been an Invited Professor at the École Centrale Paris, and the Université de Versailles, St.-Quentin-en-Yvelines.

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Dermot O'Hare received his BA (1982), MA (1983) and DPhil (1985) in chemistry from the University of Oxford, where he studied carbon–hydrogen bond activation under the supervision of Malcolm Green. In 1985 he was awarded a Royal Commission of 1851 Research Fellowship. Whilst holding the 1851 Research Fellowship he was invited to take up a 1 year visiting research fellowship at the Central Research and Development of E.I. duPont in Willington, Delaware. He worked under the direction of Professor J. S. Miller on the magnetic properties of molecular-based charge transfer solids. In 1990 he was appointed to a University Lectureship in Inorganic Chemistry at Oxford and a Septcentenary Tutorial Fellowship at Balliol College. In 1998 he was awarded the title of Professor of Chemistry. His current interests span a wide range of inorganic chemistry from synthetic molecular organometallic chemistry through to solid state chemistry. In 1996 he was honoured by the Institut de France, Académie des Sciences as one of the top 50 leading scientists in Europe under 40 years of age and was also the recipient of the RSC's Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship. In 1998, he received the Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize and the Exxon Chemicals European Science and Engineering award. In 2006 he was invited to give the Pacific Northwest Inorganic Lecturers and present the Glenn T. Seaborg Memorial Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Stuart Rowan received his BSc (Hons) (1991) and PhD (1995) in organic chemistry, specifically in the area of supramolecular crystal engineering under the supervision of Dr D. D. MacNicol, from the University of Glasgow. He then carried out postdoctoral studies with Professor J. K. M. Sanders at the University of Cambridge and in 1998 moved across the Atlantic and the continental US to the University of California, Los Angeles to work with Sir Professor J. F. Stoddart (now Northwestern University). In 1999 he joined the faculty of the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and in 2008 was promoted to full professor. His current research interests lie at the interface of polymer and supramolecular chemistry with a focus on the development of new stimuli-responsive materials and biomaterials. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award and is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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