Thomas Wirth is professor of organic chemistry at Cardiff University. He received his PhD after studying chemistry at Bonn and the Technical University of Berlin. After a postdoctoral stay at Kyoto University as a JSPS fellow, he worked independently at the University of Basel before taking up his current position at Cardiff University in 2000. His main interests of research concern stereoselective electrophilic reactions, oxidative transformations with hypervalent iodine reagents and flow chemistry and electrochemistry performed in microreactors.

Hai-Chao was born in 1983 in Hunan (耒阳), China. He obtained his B.S. in Chemistry in 2006 from Xiamen University and a Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2010 from Washington University in St. Louis (USA) with Prof. Kevin D. Moeller. After postdoctoral work with Prof. Jonathan A. Ellman at Yale University (USA) from 2011 to 2013, he moved backed to Xiamen University to start his independent career. His research focuses on synthetic electrochemistry.

Robert Francke studied chemistry at Bonn University (Germany) and Alicante University (Spain). In 2012, he completed his PhD with Prof. S. R. Waldvogel at Mainz University (Germany), working on new electrolyte systems for electrochemical energy storage. He then joined the group of Prof. R. D. Little at the University of California Santa Barbara. There he conducted research in the field of organic electrochemistry as a postdoc and Feodor Lynen fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation). In 2014, he started his independent career at Rostock University with a Liebig Fellowship (Fonds der Chemischen Industrie). After his habilitation in 2020, he joined the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT Rostock, Germany), where he currently leads the research department “Electrochemistry & Catalysis”. Since 2022, he is also Full Professor at Rostock University, Heisenberg Fellow (German Research Foundation), and Member of the LIKAT Executive Board. His research focuses on the catalysis of electro-organic reactions and CO2 reduction, as well as on the development of sustainable electrolyte concepts.