Plenary Speakers
Prof. Amanda Bryant-Friedrich
Wayne State University, United States
Dr. Amanda Bryant-Friedrich is Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA. She obtained her doctorate in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany under Professor Richard Neidlein followed by postdoctoral training at the Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland, under Professor Bernd Giese. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, The American Chemical Society and an Academic Leadership Fellow of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Her research interest center around the development of tools to investigate processes and treat diseases related to nucleic acids and their metabolism.
Prof. Mags Blackie
Rhodes University, South Africa
Prof Mags Blackie is the Associate Director of the Centre for Advancing Undergraduate Science Education at Virginia Tech. She holds PhD in chemistry from the University of Cape Town and a PhD in education from Stellenbosch University. She began her career as an organic chemist at Stellenbosch University where she balanced medicinal chemistry research and education research. In 2022 she pivoted to education research and joined the Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning at Rhodes University.
Prof. Christian W. Klampfl
Innsbruck, Austria
Christian W. Klampfl obtained his Ph.D. from University of Innsbruck/Austria in 1993. 1999-2000 he worked as a research associate at the University of Hobart/Tasmania in the group of Prof. Paul Haddad. His main research areas are the use of hyphenated techniques in environmental, clinical and polymer analysis. Prof. Klampfl has published more than 140 papers and book chapters. He is currently serving as deputy editor for Electrophoresis (Wiley) and Chemistry Monthly (Springer). Currently CW Klampfl is head of the Institute of Analytical and General Chemistry at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz and president of the Austrian Society of Analytical Chemistry (ASAC).
