Organisers

Christophe Morell.

Christophe Morell is professor of theoretical chemistry at the university Claude Bernard Lyon 1. He is author or co-author of about 80 papers in international journal. He leads the Chemiometrics and Theoretical Chemistry group of the Institute of Analytical Sciences (ISA). He is specialist of conceptual DFT. Within this framework, he has proposed several chemical reactivity and selectivity descriptors. Some of which are implemented in quantum or post quantum calculation packages such as ADF, MultiWfn….

Julia Contreras

Julia Contreras is a senior researcher in theoretical chemistry at CNRS and Sorbonne University. She is author or co-author of about 100 papers in international journals (Natur Comm, JACS, Chem Sci, etc). She leads the Chemical Interpretation group at the Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique.  She is specialist in theoretical methods. Within this framework, she is one of the main developers of the Non Covalent Interaction (NCI) index, which has received over 4500 citations, and it's implementation (over 2000 citations). She is author of the book "Topological approaches to the chemical bond" which will be soon be available at Springer.

Laurent Joubert

Laurent Joubert is professor of theoretical chemistry at the University of Rouen in Normandy, north of France. He is the author or co-author of about 110 papers in peer-reviewed publications. He leads the Computational Chemistry group at the COBRA laboratory (specialized in organic, organometallic, and bioorganic chemistry). Collaborating with Prof. Bernard Silvi during his PhD thesis then with Prof. Paul Popelier during his postdoc in Manchester, he specialized in quantum chemical topology (QCT) and its applications mainly in organic or organometallic chemistry reactivity. During the last years, he organized or co-organized several conferences including the first European Symposium on Chemical Bonding (ESCB1 in 2016, Rouen) and joined the developer’s team of the Amsterdam Density Functional (ADF) code, adding both conceptual DFT and QCT tools.

Shubin Liu

Shubin Liu is a Senior Computational Scientist in the Research Computing Center and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He obtained his Ph.D. degree with Robert G. Parr and postdoctoral training with Weitao Yang of Duke University. He has been an independent researcher since 2000, focusing on developing a chemical reactivity theory using DFT language. He has authored over 240 peer-reviewed publications with the h-index of 55 and total citations of 16,676 (Google Scholar, as of 7/7/2022). He was the organizer of CCTC #1 and one of the three organizers of CCTC #2. He edited the first book on CDFT, entitled “Conceptual Density Functional Theory – Towards a New Chemical Reactivity Theory”, published by Wiley-VCH in April 2022.