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Panče Naumov holds the position of full professor of chemistry with tenure at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). He also serves as a Global Network Professor of Chemistry at New York University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences and holds a cross-appointment at New York University's Molecular Design Institute. Additionally, he is the Director of the NYUAD Center for Smart Engineering Materials (CSEM) and leader of the Smart Materials Lab (SML) at NYUAD. Naumov's Smart Materials Lab is widely recognized as the leading research team in chemistry and materials science in the UAE, accounting for approximately 40-60 percent of both the number and fractional count of high-impact publications in chemistry in the country each year according to the Nature Index. Naumov earned his BSc from Ss. Cyril & Methodius University in Macedonia and PhD in chemistry and materials science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2004. Prior to NYUAD, he held research fellow positions at the Japanese National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and faculty roles at Osaka University and Kyoto University in Japan.

Naumov's research explores smart materials with properties such as reshaping, memorizing, moving, self-repairing, and efficient transduction of light or heat into mechanical work, pioneering crystal adaptronics and adaptive molecular crystals for applications in energy, water, health, optics, electronics, and soft robotics. His portfolio includes approximately 300 publications, over USD 15 million in extramural funding, approximately 400 presentations including over 90 invited talks, and mentorship of more than 60 students since 2012. He serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society overseeing solid-state chemistry, photochemistry, crystallography, and crystal engineering, and sits on editorial boards for Angewandte Chemie, Chemistry - A European Journal, Chemistry - an Asian Journal, and others. Major awards and honors include Fellowships of the American Chemical Society and Royal Society of Chemistry, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (2015), Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard University (2018), Human Frontier Science Program award (2011), Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association Prize (2014), and UAE's 10-year golden residency visa (2020).