Councillors representatives of the Individual Members for 2009-2012
Giovanni Luca Cascarano
IC - Institute of Crystallography, CNR
Via Amendola 122/O, 70126 Bari, Italy
Phone: +39 0805929145
Fax: +39 0805929170
Senior Researcher
Born 1953
Nationality: Italian
Education and career:
1979 - Computer Science Diploma - Bari University
1989 - PhD in crystallography - Bari University
1998 - Staff Researcher in Institute of Crystallograpy - CNR - Bari
2001 - Staff Senior Researcher in Institute of Crystallograpy - CNR - Bari.
Scientific activity:
The main interest is the field of the crystallographic methodologies development. Such methodologies are of fundamental importance for the studies of the crystal structures and the related properties: drugs, proteins, new material of technological interest can be investigated using crystallographic methods. On the developed theories and related applications more than 100 papers on international journals have been produced.
The developed theories have been implemented in scientific software for the automatic solution of crystal structures using single crystal data (Sir92, Sir97, Sir2002, Sir2004, il Milione) and powder data (SirPow, Expo). This software is freely distributed to the scientific community and it is used in hundreds of labs all over the world.
Aiming at an easier initial training on the crystallography, an interactive CD (ABC - An interactive Book on general Crystallography) has been produced as add-on to the book Fundamentals of Crystallography - Second Edition (IUCr Texts on Crystallography n.7 , Oxford University Press).
Organiziation of events:
3rd National School on Neutron and X-Ray Diffraction 26th October- 5th November 1992.
Fourth SIR workshop 5th -7th April 1993
Fifth SIR workshop 17th-27th December 1996
XX National meeting of the Associazione Italiana di Cristallografia 19th - 22nd September 2000.
EuroConference on Phasing Biological Macromolecules (PHABIO) 23rd - 27th June 2001.
First precession electron diffraction user meeting 8th - 9th May 2008.
Hobbies: cycle tourism.
Bill Clegg
School of Chemistry
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU, UK
Phone: +44 1912226649
Fax: +44 1912226929
Senior Research Investigator and Emeritus Professor of Structural Crystallography
Born 1949
Nationality: British
Qualifications and career:
1970 - BA in Natural Sciences (Chemistry), Cambridge University
1973-74 - MA and PhD, Cambridge University (supervisor Dr Peter Wheatley)
1973 - University Demonstrator in Inorganic Chemistry, Newcastle University
1978 - Wissenschaftlicher Assistent, Universität Göttingen, Germany (with Professor George Sheldrick)
1984 - Habilitation, Göttingen University
1984 - Lecturer, Newcastle University
1988 - Reader in Chemical Crystallography, Newcastle University
1989 - ScD, Cambridge University
1992 - Professor of Structural Crystallography, Newcastle University
1995-2007 - a series of Joint Appointments at Daresbury Laboratory
2009 - Emeritus Professor, with appointment as Senior Research Investigator
Scientific activities
Research in X-ray crystallography with particular interests in
single-crystal X-ray diffraction data collection techniques
synchrotron-based chemical crystallography
crystallographic service operation
presentation and publication of structural results
complexes of alkali metals and alkaline earth metals
supramolecular coordination chemistry
Crystallographic teaching and training including
BCA/CCG intensive courses since 1987
international summer schools in synchrotron radiation science since 2002
organisation of BCA Spring Meeting in Newcastle, 1994
authorship/editorship of 3 crystallography textbooks
National and international chemistry and crystallography societies including
Member of BCA, ECA and ACA
BCA Council member 2006-2010
ECA Council member 2009-2012
Diamond User Committee member 2009-2012
Former member/Chairman of several working parties and committees for aspects of crystallography, synchrotron radiation, and UK Research Councils
Director of UK National Crystallography Service synchrotron component 2001-2010
Joint Editor of Acta Crystallographica Section E - Structure Reports Online 2000-2008
CChem, FRSC
Over 1100 research publications
Other activities and interests
University Honorary Chaplain
Accredited Baptist Lay Preacher
Walking, camping, cycle touring
Family, including a recent first grandson
Classical music, choral singing, music in Christian worship
Reading
Helen Stoeckli-Evans, Professor Emeritus
BSc, PhD, FRSC
Institute of Physics,
University of Neuchâtel
Rue Emile-Argand 11, CP158
CH-2009 Neuchâtel
Switzerland
Tel: +41 (0)32 718 24 26
Fax: +41 (0)32 718 25 11
E-mail:
WEB site: www2.unine.ch/lcp>
Short Biography
1944 Born and educated in Wrexham, Clwyd, North Wales, UK
1963-66 BSc. University College of Wales, Aberystwyth: Chemistry (summa cum laude)
1966-69 PhD. University of Salford: Far Infra-red Absorption and Dispersion studies
1969-71 Post-Doc. Oxford University, Chemical Crystallography with Prof. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: Structure of Neo-Vitamin B12
1971 University of Neuchâtel, Institute of Chemistry. Firstly as a post-doc setting up the laboratory of crystallography
1972 Nominated "chargée de cours" in charge of teaching Chemical Crystallography
1980 Appointed "Chef de travaux" in charge of the Laboratory of Crystallography
1987 Nominated Associate Professor in Chemical Crystallography This appointment enabled me to set-up my own research group in the domain of coordination polymers
1997 Creation of the BENEFRI-small molecule crystallography service for the chemistry departments of the Universities of Bern, Neuchâtel and Fribourg
1997-2005 Member of the "Commission fédérale de recours en matière d'encouragement de la recherche"
2002 Co-editor Acta Crystallographica E & C
2004 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
2005 Nominated Professor Extraordinarius in Chemical Crystallography
2006 1st Jan. Transferred to the Institute of Microtechnology
2008 1st Jan. Transferred to the Institute of Physics
2009 1st Aug. - Professor Emeritus
2010 Elected IM Councilor of the European Crystallographic Association for the period 2009-2012
Activities- past and present
Teaching: Chemical Crystallography; Computers in chemistry
Responsible for the BENEFRI-small molecule crystallography service for the chemistry departments of the Universities of Bern, Neuchâtel and Fribourg (1997 - 2006).
Research was carried out in the field of coordination polymers which included the preparation, structure analysis and the study of their magnetic and adsorption properties.
The research group was composed on average of 2 post-docs and 3-4 PhD students. All were actively involved in the synthesis of new ligands and the study of their reactivity with first row transition metals.
Co-editor Acta Crystallographica E & C
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
Member of the Swiss Society for Crystallography
Member of the European Crystallographic Association
Member of the British Crystallographic Association
Member of the Swiss Chemical Society
Member of the American Chemical Society
Publications: Author/co-author of over 490 scientific publications
Responsible for over 780 published crystal structures.
Languages: English and French
Hobbies: Nordik Walking, Mountain walking, Reading-modern English and French literature
Former councillors representatives of the Individual Members (2006-2009)
Teresa Borowiak
Department of Crystallography, Faculty of Chemistry, A.
Mickiewicz University
Grunwaldzka 6, 60-780 POZNAŃ, POLAND
Phone: +48 61 8291286
Fax: +48 61 8658008
Massimo Nespolo
Cristallographie, Résonance Magnétique et Modélisations (CRM2)
UMR - CNRS 7036
Université Henri Poincaré Nancy 1
BP 70239
Boulevard des Aiguillettes
F54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy cedex France
phone: +33.383.684885
fax: +33.383.406492
Former councillors representatives of the Individual Members (2003-2006)
Giovanni Ferraris
Università degli Studi di Torino
Dipartimento di Scienze Mineralogiche e Petrologiche
Via Valperga Caluso 35-37, I-10125 Torino, Italy
voice: +39 011 670 5121; fax: +39 011 670 5128 http://www.lcm3b.uhp-nancy.fr/cims/ferraris.htm
