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Professor Clemmer received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Utah and did postdoctoral work at the Himeji Institute of Technology (Japan) and Northwestern University before coming to IU in 1995. His research involves the development of methods for studying the structures of complex low-symmetry systems in the gas phase. These methods are being applied to several types of problems including elucidation of fundamental issues associated with how a protein folds, as well as studies of complex mixtures of proteins - the emerging field of proteomics.

Professor Clemmer has published more than 250 papers and his work has been recognized with several awards.These awards include the Fresenius Chemistry Award as well as the 2018 John B. Fenn Distinguishing Contribution Award, which he shared with Martin F. Jarrold and Gert von Helden.

Introduction

Prof. Myeong Hee Moon received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Utah in 1991 under the prof. Calvin J. Giddings and began his research at Dept. of chemistry, Kangnung National University in 1994 as an assistant professor. He joined at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea in 2003. His research has been focused to develop methodology in flow field-flow fractionation (flow FFF) for the separation and characterization of biological macromolecules including the development of frit-inlet asymmetrical flow FFF and brought mass spectrometry to the research of flow FFF. Off-line or on-line hyphenation of flow FFF with mass spectrometry are applied to the lipidomic analysis of various biological particles. He has published over 190 scientific articles. He served as the president of the Korean Society of Mass Spectrometry (2016-17), the vice-president of Korean Chemical Society (2014), an Executive Committee Member of International Mass Spectrometry Foundation (2016-22), the chair of the International Committee of Asia Oceania Mass Spectrometry Conference (2018-20), and the chair of the SBFFF of International symposium on Field and Flow-Based Separation (2020-22).

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Mr. Fang Xiang is Director of the National Metrology Institute (NIM), China, Vice Secretary of the Party Committee of NIM and a senior researcher of NIM. He also serves as Director of the National Time and Frequency Measurement Center and Director of the National Research Center for Certified Reference Materials (NRCCRM). He is a member of the 13th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He is also a State Council Special Allowance Expert.

Before Mr Fang took office as NIM Director in 2014, he had assumed a number of executive positions, including Vice Director of the former National Research Center for Certified Research Materials that has been merged into NIM, Vice Director of NIM, Vice Director of the National Institute of Standardization, Chief Engineer and then Vice Administrator at the Standardization Administration of China, successively.

He has been engaged in research on metrological technologies, measuring instruments as well as management of standardization for a long time. He has led the planning and implementation of the National Key Technologies R&D Program, the Scientific Instrument Research and Development Program, and research projects funded by Natural Science Foundation of China. Being a senior researcher in mass spectrometry field at NIM, he was granted the China’s National Science and Technology Progress Awards (the Second Prize) and some provincial level awards for research achievements. He has also participated in the development of a number of state-level strategic plans in scientific and standard fields, including the National Long-term Science and Technology Development Plan (2006-2020), 11th and 12th five-year strategic plans for science and technology in China, Outline for the Establishment of National Scientific and Technological Infrastructure Platform. He has organized the development of 12th Five-Year Plan for Technical Standardization.

Mr. Fang was elected Chairperson of the Asia Pacific Metrology Programme (APMP) for a three-year term from December 2019 to December 2022.