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Saurabh Chitnis 

Saurabh Chitnis obtained his Ph.D. with Neil Burford at the University of Victoria (2015), where his doctoral thesis was recognized with a Governor General鈥檚 Gold Medal. He started his independent career at Dalhousie University in July 2018, where in 2023 he received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor and University Research Chair. In 2025, he moved to the University of Victoria as a Canada Research Chair in Inorganic Materials & Polymers.

Research in the focuses on molecular and macromolecular main group chemistry. Select honours include the Dalhousie President鈥檚 Research Excellence Award, Science Killam Prize, the CNC-IUPAC National Travel Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and the Chemistry Undergraduate Teaching Award.

Xiongyi Huang 

After receiving his PhD in 2016, Xiongyi worked with Prof. Frances Arnold at Caltech, first as an NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow and later as an NIH Pathway to Independence Postdoctoral Fellow. Xiongyi began as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University in September 2019.

Xiongyi and his focuses on engineering metalloenzymes, particularly nonheme enzymes, to catalyse synthetic reactions currently absent in the reaction repertoire of enzymes. Xiongyi has been recognized with several awards, including the Packard Fellowship, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher鈥揝cholar Award, the Sloan Research Fellowship, the Edward I. Stiefel Memorial Award for Metals in Biology, and selection as a Frontiers of Science Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences.