Plenary speaker

Stephen Mann is Professor of Chemistry, co-Director of the Max Planck Bristol Centre for Minimal Biology, and Director of the Centres for Organized Matter Chemistry and Protolife Research at the University of Bristol, UK. He is also Chair Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering and Zhangjiang Institute for Advanced Study at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Professor Mann is distinguished for contributions to biomineralization, bioinspired materials chemistry and protocell research. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society UK, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and a Member of Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has received awards from the Royal Society of Chemistry (de Gennes Prize; SCF French-British Prize; Nyholm Medal) and has been a visiting professor at the College de France and Harvard University. He was awarded the Royal Society Davy Medal in 2016. Professor Mann has published over 550 scientific papers. His current research focuses on the development of synthetic protobiology and the transition from non-living to living matter.

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