The Scientific Advisory Board constitutes the core of an international think tank of experts from various disciplines addressing issues vital to achieving critical outcomes in research. Recommending topics for Catalytic Forum workshops, the Scientific Advisory Board also provides policy advice for the organization.


 
Ahmed Zewail, Ph.D., Chairman
California Institute of Technology, United States

Francis Allotey, Ph.D.
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Ghana

Piero Baglioni, Ph.D.
University of Florence, Italy

Chunli Bai, Ph.D.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China

Maria Arménia Carrondo, Ph.D.
New University of Lisbon, Portugal

Paul Crutzen, Ph.D.
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany

Sture Forsén, Ph.D.
Lund University, Sweden

Sir Aaron Klug, Ph.D.
United Kingdom

Gerard van Koten, Ph.D.
Ultrecht University, The Netherlands

Sir Harold Kroto, Ph.D.
Florida State University, United States

Reiko Kuroda, Ph.D.
University of Tokyo, Japan

Jean-Marie Lehn, Ph.D.

Institute of Science and Supramolecular Engineering, France

Susan Lindquist, Ph.D.
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, United States
 
Sara Linse, Ph.D.
Lund University, Sweden

Benoit Mandelbrot, Ph.D.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States

Achim Mueller, Ph.D.
University of Bielefeld, Germany

Ryoji Noyori, Ph.D.
Nagoya University, Japan

C.N.R. Rao, Ph.D.
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India

Richard Schrock, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

Bengt Stenlund, Ph.D.
Åbo Akademi University and The Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Finland

Jürgen Troe, Ph.D.
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany

Craig Venter, Ph.D.
J. Craig Venter Institute, United States

George Whitesides, Ph.D.
Harvard University, United States

Jackie Ying, Ph.D.
Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology,
Singapore

Richard Zare, Ph.D., President
Stanford University, United States
 
 
 
Bengt Nordén, Ph.D., Chairman
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Erik Thulstrup, Ph.D., Treasurer
Roskilde University, Denmark

Shuguang Zhang, Ph.D., Secretary
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

Brenda Herschbach Jarrell, Ph.D
Choate Hall & Stewart, LLP
 
Richard Zare, Ph.D., President
Stanford University, United States

Magdalena Eriksson, Ph.D., Vice President
New York, Unites States

Erik Thulstrup, Ph.D., Vice President
Roskilde University, Denmark