Professor Georgina Such
University of Melbourne 

Professor Craig Hawker, Co-Director
California NanoSystems Institute

Dr. Craig Hawker is the Co-Director of the California NanoSystems Institute and Director of the Dow Materials Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a Distinguished Professor, holds the Alan and Ruth Heeger Chair in Interdisciplinary Science and is the Clarke Professor within the California Nanosystems Institute.

Craig is also an award-winning polymer scientist with 75 US patents and co-authored over 600 papers in nanotechnology, materials science, and chemistry. He holds a BSc from the University of Queensland and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Professor Christine Luscombe
Okinawa Institute of Technology

Christine Luscombe is currently a Professor and Chair of the Faculty at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Okinawa, Japan. After receiving her Bachelor’s degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 2000, she worked with Profs. Andrew Holmes and Wilhelm Huck in the Melville Laboratory of Polymer Synthesis at the University of Cambridge where her research focused on surface modifications using supercritical carbon dioxide for her PhD.

 She received the Syngenta Award for best organic chemistry project for her PhD. In January 2004, she joined the group of Prof. Jean Fréchet at UC Berkeley for her post-doctoral studies where she began her research on semiconducting polymers for organic photovoltaics. She was the recipient of the Lindemann Fellowship and the Trinity College Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge) for her post-doctoral studies.