The event brings together all disciplines of chemistry, a diverse audience of chemists from both academia and industry, and from all around the globe. Apart from plenary and keynote lectures, the congress will include parallel sessions with oral presentations, working group meetings and poster presentations by junior and senior researchers.

The theme of IUPAC 2025, “Chemistry for Sustainable Future”, underscores our commitment to exploring chemistry’s pivotal role in addressing global sustainability challenges. In addition to the scientific sessions on various disciplines in chemistry, IUPAC 2025 also includes a special cluster of symposia on “Chemistry and Sustainable Development.

 

Awards

The prestigious IUPAC-Soong Prize for Sustainable Chemistry and 2025 Chemistry Europe Awards will be presented during the Opening Ceremony. The awardees (Omar Yaghi and Stefan Grimme) will deliver talks at the conference.

• Chemistry Europe Award Lecture
  g-xTB: DFT accuracy at tight-binding speed
  Stefan Grimme, University of Bonn, Germany
  8.00 – 8.45 am on 15 July 2025

 

Plenary Speakers

• Prof Chi-Huey Wong
  Scripps Research Institute, United States
  Green Chemistry toward Low-sugar Universal Vaccines and Glycoengineered Antibodies
• Prof Christine K Luscombe
  Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
  Advancing the Frontiers of Semiconducting Polymers Through Precision Synthesis
• Prof David Alan Winkler
  La Trobe University, Australia
  The Exciting Potential of AI for Drug and Therapeutic Discovery
• Prof Eiichi Nakamura
  University of Tokyo, Japan
  Cinematic Chemistry: The Journey of Electron Microscopy from Organic Synthesis to Molecular Statistics
• Prof Gregory Scholes
  Princeton University, United States
  From Coherence in Photosynthesis to Chemical Quantum Information Science
• Prof Jackie Yi-Ru Ying
  King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Saudi Arabia
  Design and Synthesis of Nanomaterials for Biomedical and Energy Applications
• Prof Lisa Hall
  University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  Biosensors Without Frontiers: Nucleic Acid Testing in Low Resource Areas
• Prof Peter Mahaffy
  King’s University, Canada
  Realising Chemistry’s Pivotal Role in our Sustainable Future
• Prof Tamotsu Takahashi
  Hokkaido University, Japan
  Continuous Movement of Carbon Atoms in Organic Molecules: Merry-Go-Round Reaction
• Prof Veronique Gouverneur
  University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  Rethinking Fluorine Chemistry with Global Challenges in Mind
• Prof Zhang Tao
  Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  Single-Atom Catalysis
• Prof Zhaomin Hou
  RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Japan
  Pushing Boundaries: Innovations in Organometallic Complexes and Catalysts for Advanced Chemical Transformations

 

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