From 1st January 2009 we welcome to Journal of Materials Chemistry two new Associate Editors for North America, Professor Vincent Rotello (Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts at Amherst) and Professor Ram Seshadri (Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara). Vince and Ram welcome papers from authors in the USA or Canada, and will also be active in representing the journal at meetings and commissioning high quality papers for publication in future issues of Journal of Materials Chemistry. 

 

Vince Rotello received his BS from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1985. He obtained his PhD in 1990 from Yale University with Harry Wasserman in the area of natural products synthesis. From 1990-93, he was an NSF postdoctoral fellow with Julius Rebek Jr at M.I.T. in the area of host-guest chemistry. Since 1993, Professor Rotello has been at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst as an Assistant Professor from 1993-1998, Associate Professor (1998-2001), Professor (2001-2005) and Charles A Goessmann Professor of Chemistry (2005-), with an appointment in the Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology. He has been the recipient of the NSF CAREER and Cottrell Scholar award, as well as the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar and the Sloan Fellowships, and is a Fellow of the RSC. His research program spans the areas of devices, polymers, nanotechnology, and bionanotechnology, with three books and over 250 papers published to date. 

Vince would be delighted to receive submissions from North America in the field of nanoparticles, surfaces, polymers and organic materials.

 

Ram Seshadri is a Professor in the Materials Department and in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to starting at UCSB, Ram was an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (1999-2002). Ram is interested in the broad problem of structure-morphology-property relations in crystalline inorganic compounds, and especially those displaying interesting electronic, magnetic, polar, and catalytic properties. Ram's research has been recognized, most notably, by the 2005 Award of the American Chemical Society's ExxonMobil Solid State Chemistry Faculty Fellowship. The first paper that Ram submitted on his own to a journal was published in 1996 in the Journal of Materials Chemistry , and he has been a loyal fan ever since. 

Ram would be delighted to receive submissions from North America in the field of solid state and inorganic materials.

 

Submissions to either Associate Editor are welcomed via the ReSourCe homepage.

 

Our special thanks go to our retiring North American Associate Editor Professor Fred Wudl for his great dedication and hard work over the past three years.