Tomislav Friščić is a Professor and Leverhulme International Chair in Green and Sustainable Chemistry at the University of Birmingham (UK). His team is developing strategies for safer, environmentally-friendly synthesis and materials design. He is a co-author on 300 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and patent applications, and co-founder of two “CleanTech” start-up companies. He received his B.Sc. at the University of Zagreb with Branko Kaitner (2001), Ph.D. with Leonard MacGillivray at the University of Iowa (2006). He was a post-doctoral associate with William Jones (2006) at the Pfizer Institute for Pharmaceutical Materials Science, and Herchel Smith Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge (2008). He was a Professor and Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Mechanochemistry and Solid-state Chemistry at McGill University until 2022. He is the Chair of the Canadian National Committee for Crystallography, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada, corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and his group’s work was recognized by awards, including the NSERC John C. Polany Award (2022), the Brusina Medal of the Croatian Society of Natural Sciences (2021), Award for Research Excellence in Materials Chemistry of the Canadian Society for Chemistry (2019), Royal Society of Canada Rutherford Medal (2018), Steacie Prize for Natural Sciences (2018) etc. Find more information here.