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Dr Dragica Trivic is a full professor at the University of Belgrade – the Faculty of Chemistry and the head of the Department of Chemistry Education. Her research lies in the field of chemistry education at all levels and in the field of the history of chemistry. She is the author of numerous chemistry textbooks for primary and secondary schools, as well as books on chemistry didactics for pre-service chemistry teachers. She has participated in the development of the chemistry curricula for primary and grammar schools, as well as in the development of the standards of achievement in the field of chemistry at the end of primary and secondary education. In the previous decades she has developed programmes for pre-service chemistry teacher education, as well as programmes for in-service chemistry teacher training. She has been a committee member within the chemistry competitions organised for primary and secondary school students. In her research studies and cooperation within numerous projects, as well as within the teaching practice, she has been searching for the solutions to the challenges within chemistry education. The search continues… 

Hendra Agustian is an Assistant Professor of Higher Science Education. His research is centred on epistemic orientations particularly in the context of laboratory work.

Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff CBE FRS FREng studied at King's College, Cambridge, B.A (1969) and Ph.D. (1973) under the supervision of J. J. Turner FRS on the ‘Matrix Isolation of Large Molecules’. In 1972, he was appointed Research/Senior Research Officer in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1979, he moved to a Lectureship in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham. Promotion to Reader in Inorganic Chemistry and then to Professor of Chemistry followed in 1985 and 1991 respectively. In addition, he is Honorary Professor of Chemistry at Moscow State University (currently suspended). From 1994-99, he held an EPSRC/Royal Academy of Engineering Clean Technology Fellowship at Nottingham. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (2002), of the RSC (2002) and of the IChemE (2004). He was awarded CBE (2008) for "Services to Sciences", and knighted in 2015 for "Services to the Chemical Sciences". He was made Honorary Member of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia (2008) and Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2011) and Honorary Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society (2015). In 2012, He was elected a Fellow of the Academia Europaea and, in 2013, Associate Fellow of TWAS, the World Academy of Science and Associate Member of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences (2014), Honorary Fellow of the RSC (2015), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2016) and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2017). He was a Council Member of the IChemE (2009-13) and Foreign Secretary and Vice-President of the Royal Society (2011-16) In 2018, he was appointed Honorary Professor at Beijing University of Chemical Technology and was awarded the 2019 James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public by the American Chemical Society. He received a  Dr hon causa from the New University of Lisbon (2019), and Honorary Doctorates from Newcastle University (2022) and Warwick University (2023). In 2021, a Nottingham Tram was named in his honour. His research interests are focussed on supercritical fluids, continuous reactions and their applications to Green and sustainable Chemistry. Since 2008, he and his colleagues have collaborated with video-maker Brady Haran to make chemistry videos for the YouTube channel Periodic Videos.