Thomas M. Hermans (TMH) is Senior Research Professor at the IMDEA Nanociencia (Madrid, Spain) since December 2023. He received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering with Prof. E.W. Meijer (TU/e, Netherlands, 2006-2010). After a postdoc with Prof. B. Grzybowski at Northwestern University (USA, 2010-2013), he started his independent group in 2013 at the Institute of Supramolecular Chemistry and Engineering (France, 2013-2023).
Selected honors include: Prix Guy Ourrison (2018), ERC Starting grant (2018), World Economic Forum (elected "among the brightest 21 researchers world wide" 2019), IUPAC Periodic Table of Younger Chemists: elected as element "Francium" (2019), Prix Forscheurs Jean-Marie Lehn (2022), Prix Christiane Dietrich-Buchecker (2022), Institut Universitaire de France – Junior chair (2022), ERC Consolidator grant (2023), The Netherlands Scholar Award for Supramolecular Chemistry (2023), Spanish ATRAE grant (2023).
Juntian Wu was born in 1994 in China. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Lanzhou University (China). He then completed his master’s degree at the South China University of Technology (China), where he studied supramolecular self-assembly on 2D surfaces.
In 2019, he joined the group of Prof. Sijbren Otto at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) to investigate self-assembly driven self-replication. In April 2025, he joined the group of Prof. Thomas Hermans to continue his work on supramolecular self-assembly and its emergent behavior.
