Face to Face

Ben Feringa, 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry & Jacobus van ‘t Hoff Distinguished Professor of Molecular Sciences, University of Groningen.
“We should be training students to go far beyond the frontiers of what is possible now, to think non-conventionally and to come up with new solutions.”
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Jess Wade, Research Associate at Imperial College London.
“We need diversity in science because we need the biggest range of ideas possible to solve the considerable challenges the world is facing.”
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Andreas Pfaltz, Emeritus Professor at University of Basel.
“I can’t predict what the next big thing will be. Usually, the big things come because someone makes an unexpected discovery and that leads in a different direction.”
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Julius Rebek Jr., Director of the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology at The Scripps Research Institute.
“In science and life, I’ve been on the edge. If you feel comfortable there it’s a good place to work: it’s where discoveries happen.”
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Bibiana Campos, Editor-in-Chief of Chemical & Engineering News.
“Humanity is facing global challenges and chemistry – as the central science that it is – will play a fundamental role to overcome these challenges. Chemists should claim that central science space and broadcast to the public and other scienctists.”
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Robert J. Phipps, Royal Society University Research Fellow.
“Don’t be too afraid that your ideas are going to fail, because if you were sure they are going to work, it probably wouldn’t be as exciting as it is.”
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Jennifer M. Heemstra, Associate Professor at Emory University (USA).
“My greatest achievement was learning how to do things that terrify me and not letting big goals scare me anymore.”
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Anat Milo, Senior Lecturer at the Chemistry Department of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
“The goal of a scientist is not to be right all the time, but to be less wrong over time.”
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Peter Chen, Full Professor at ETH Zurich.
“I think it’s important for academics to see themselves as in a privileged position where they can – and should – take risks.”
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Atsushi Urakawa, ICIQ Group Leader.
“Academia needs to be in contact with industry.”
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Núria Picas, Fire-fighter, mountaineer and long-distance runner.
“Above all, you need to enjoy what you do.”
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Hisashi Yamamoto, Professor at Chubu University and an emeritus professor at the University of Chicago.
“Failure is always a chance for success.”
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Ilan Marek, Professor at theTechnion’s Schulich Faculty of Chemistry.
“Organic synthesis is like being an architect at a molecular level.”
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David Cahen, Professor at Bar Ilan University’s Dept. fo Chemistry and at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
“It’s a great satisfaction to know you are the first one to make something new.”
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Alexandr Shafir, ICIQ group leader.
“The happiness of science is complicated to reach elsewhere.”
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David MacMillan, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University.
“Science is a treasure hunt”
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Vjekoslav Dekaris, Scientific editor of Chem.
“I can do professionally what I have always liked that is reading scientific papers.”
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Anna L. Moore, Regents Professor at the Arizona State University.
“What I like most of the research is to do things that nobody has done before.”
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Pedro J. Pérez, Center for Research in Sustainable Chemistry (Huelva).
“My greatest achievement has been to contribute to the creation and implementation of the University of Huelva.”
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Julio Lloret-Fillol, ICIQ group leader.
“I decided that the best job a person could devote oneself to was to be a scientist.”
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Nicolai Kramer, Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry at EPFL (Switzerland).
“Believe in you, that is probably the best advice I was given.”
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Fernando P. Cossío, Ikerbasque.
“We need to reach the equilibrium between the three Rs: Recruit, Retain and Repatriate.”
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Vy M. Dong, full Professor at University of California at Irvine.
“My favorite job is working with the students.”
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Lee Cronin, Gardiner Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow.
“Chemistry for me was natural, it was never a question, it just was.”
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Pau Ballester, ICIQ group leader
“Chemistry has the right experimental and theoretical balance.”
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Vladimir Grushin, ICIQ group leader.
“Science is the most powerful tool of curiosity.”
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Roberta Sessoli, associate Professor at the University of Florence
“Science is freedom.”
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Antonio M. Echavarren, ICIQ group leader
“When I was a teenager I was fascinated by the mysterious changes that occurred upon the simple mixing of chemical substances.”
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James Barber, Ernst Chain Professor at the Imperial College London.
“When you do experiments, you must believe the results and adapt your interpretation to them.”
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Stephen L. Buchwald, Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry at MIT
“My feeling is that we need to fund the best science rather than specific areas.”
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