James Durrant, Editor in Chief
Imperial College London and Swansea University, UK
James Durrant is Professor of Photochemistry in the Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London and Sêr Cymru Solar Professor, University of Swansea. His research addresses the photochemistry of new materials for solar energy conversion – targeting both solar cells (photovoltaics) and solar to fuel (i.e.: artificial photosynthesis). His group is currently addressing the development and transient spectroscopic characterisation of organic and perovskite solar cells and photoelectrodes for solar fuel generation. More widely, he leads Imperial’s Centre for Plastic Electronics, the UK’s Solar Fuels Network and the Welsh government funded Sêr Cymru Solar initiative. He has published over 350 research papers and 5 patents, and was recently awarded the 2012 Tilden Prize by the RSC.
Ryu Abe, Associate Editor
Kyoto University, Japan
ORCiDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8592-076X
Ryu Abe received his BS (1996), MS (1998) and PhD (2001) degrees from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow (2001-2002) and as a researcher (2002-2005) at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. In 2005, his academic career as an Associate Professor began at the Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan. He was then promoted to a Professor at Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan in 2012. His research focuses on the development of highly efficient photocatalysts and photoelectrons that can split water into hydrogen and oxygen under solar light and also on developing new photocatalysts for environmental purification or fine chemical synthesis.
Andrea Kruse, Associate Editor
University Hohenheim, Germany
ORCiD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8156-139X
Andrea Kruse has studied chemistry at the University of Heidelberg and specialized in Chemical Engineering. After and during her PhD, she worked in the Research Centre Karlsruhe, now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in the field of hydrothermal biomass conversion, mainly. She did her Habilitation with her studies in Supercritical Water Gasification at the Technical University Darmstadt, getting the “venia legendi” in chemical engineering. Since 2012, she is holding the chair of Conversion Technologies of Biobased Resources at University of Hohenheim. Her main activities are the production of platform chemicals and materials from biomass, and the development of advanced separation processes for biorefineries. The focus is here to develop the whole value chain “from the field to the product”.
David Mitlin, Associate Editor
Clarkson University, USA
David Mitlin is a Professor and General Electric Chair at Clarkson University, USA. Dr. Mitlin’s appointment is jointly in the Departments of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Prior to that, Dr. Mitlin was an Assistant, Associate and full Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada. He received a Doctorate in Materials Science from U.C. Berkeley in 2000, and was a Directors Funded Post Doctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Mitlin has published over 130 peer-reviewed journal articles primary on various aspects of energy storage and conversion, with a major emphasis on applied TEM for microstructure – properties relations. He holds 4 granted patents 3 of which are licensed, and has presented around 100 invited, keynote or plenary talks. He has supervised and graduated 14 Ph.D. students, 6 M.S. students and 8 post docs.
Annamaria Petrozza, Associate Editor
Istituto Italiano de Tecnologia, Italy
Annamaria Petrozza is a Tenured Senior Scientist at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT). She was awarded a Master of Science degree in Electronic Engineering at Ecole Supèrieure d’Electricité (Paris, France) in 2003 and at Politecnico di Milano in 2014 under the T.I.M.E. (Top Industrial Manager in Europe) program. In 2008 she received her PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK) with a thesis on the study of optoelectronic processes at organic and hybrid semiconductors interfaces, under the supervision of Prof J.S Kim and Prof Sir R.H. Friend. From 2008 to 2009 she worked as staff scientist at the Sharp Laboratories of Europe, Ltd (Oxford, UK) on the development of new market competitive solar cell technologies. In 2010 she joined the newly founded Center for Nano Science and Technology (CNST) of IIT in Milan. Since 2013 she leads the “Advanced Materials for Optoelectronics” Research Line at CNST. Her research is focused on the development of new, sustainable, optoelectronic technologies which can be extensively integrated in the everyday life. She is an expert in solution processable semiconductors and in time-resolved optical spectroscopy. Her studies mainly aims to shed light on interfacial optoelectronic mechanisms, which are fundamental for the optimization of operational processes, with the goal of improving device efficiency and stability. She got the “Innovators Under 35 Italy 2014” award by the MIT Technology Review for her pioneering work on perovskites. She is a 2017 ERCcoG grantee.
Garry Rumbles, Associate Editor
National Renewable Energy Laboratory and University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Garry Rumbles is a Laboratory Fellow at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. Since 2000, he has worked on advanced solar photoconversion concepts in the Chemistry and Nanoscience Center at NREL. His current research is focussed on understanding the basic science of photo-induced electron transfer processes in the molecular systems that are frequently found as components of organic solar cells. The goal of this research is to understand the structure-property relationships that control charge carrier generation and recombination mechanisms.
Dr. Rumbles is also an adjoint Professor of Chemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder and holds a visiting Professorial Chair at Imperial College, London. He is also the Associate Director for Research in the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), which is a joint energy institute between NREL and CU-Boulder. He has published 200 research articles with close to 170 in peer-reviewed journals.
Research areas:
- Advanced solar harvesting in excitonic systems
- Photo-induced electron transfer processes in conjugated polymers
- Development and application of time-resolved microwave conductivity in molecular systems
- Role of solid-state microstructure of conjugated polymers on exciton and charge carrier dynamics
Marta Sevilla, Associate Editor
Instituto Nacional del Carbón - CSIC, Spain
ORCiD http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2471-2403
I am Tenured Scientist in the National Institute of Coal (INCAR), which belongs to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). I acquired my PhD degree from the University of Oviedo/INCAR in 2008 working on the development of novel carbon materials for energy storage (supercapacitors) and energy production (electrocatalysts for the anode of fuel cells). Afterwards, I did postdoctoral stays in the University of Nottingham (with Prof. Robert Mokaya, 2009-2011), Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (with Prof. Maria-Magdalena Titirici, 2011), and Georgia Institute of Technology (with Prof. Gleb Yushin, 2013). My research interests focus on the development of advanced porous carbon materials and carbon-based materials through sustainable processes for their utilization in gas storage (H2 storage and CO2 capture), and energy storage (supercapacitors and Li-ion batteries) and production (fuel cells).
Xinchen Wang, Associate Editor
Fuzhou University, China
ORCiD 0000-0002-2490-3568
Professor Xinchen Wang obtained his BSc and MSc at Fuzhou University and acquired his PhD at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He began his Professorship at Fuzhou University at 2005 and in 2006 moved to The University of Tokyo as a JSPS Postdoctoral fellow. Professor Wang later attended the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, where he held the role of group leader between 2008 and 2012. He is currently the Director of the State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment and the Dean of the College of Chemistry at Fuzhou University, China. Professor Wang has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in the fields of catalysis and photocatalysis and has an H-Index score of 79.
