Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins: Volume 45

About

Max Ryadnov leads Biometrology research area at NPL. He is also a visiting Professor at Kings College London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society of Biology. Max obtained his MSc in Biochemistry (summa cum laude) from the Russian Academy of Sciences and PhD in Chemistry from Moscow State University. Following his academic tenures at Bristol (URF) and Leicester (Lecturer) he joined NPL as a Principal Research Scientist in 2010. Over the last 10 years his contributions to physical and life sciences have been recognised by a NESTA Crucible Innovation Award a SUPA lectureship in Chemical Physics with the University of Edinburgh and Fellowships in the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society of Biology. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications (incl. primary reports in Angew Chem JACS Nature Mater Nature Commun PNAS) numerous book chapters two books several international patents and is a co-editor of two RSC book series Amino Acids Peptides and Proteins and Synthetic Biology. Kazunori Matsuura is a Professor of the Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology Graduate School of Engineering Tottori University. He received his PhD in 1996 from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Prof. Yoshio Okahata). He joined Nagoya University as an Assistant Professor in 1996 and moved to Kyushu University as an Associate Professor in 2001. In 2006 he was selected as a researcher of JST PRESTO project Structure Control and Function. In 2012 he moved to Tottori University as a Full Professor. Professor Matsuura received The Young Scientists Prize from the Minister of Education Culture Sports Science and Technology in 2008 the JSPS Prize from the Japan Society of the Promotion of Science in 2012 The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work in 2016 and SPSJ Mitsubishi Chemical Award in 2019.