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
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.
Vincent Artero, Associate Editor
CEA-Grenoble, France
Vincent Artero was born in 1973. He is a former pupil of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm; D/S 93) and studied at the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6). He received his Ph.D. degree in 2000 under the supervision of Prof. A. Proust and Prof. P. Gouzerh. His doctoral work dealt with organometallic derivatives of polyoxometalates. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of Aachen (RWTH) with Prof. U. Kölle, he joined in 2001 the group of Prof. M. Fontecave in Grenoble where he obtained a position in the Life Science Division of the CEA (now included in the Fundamental research Division of CEA). Since 2016, he leads the SolHyCat group (www.solhycat.com) as Research Director in the Laboratory of Chemistry and Biology of Metals (a research unit cooperated by CEA, CNRS and Univ. Grenoble Alpes) in Grenoble. His research interests are in bioinspired chemistry and artificial photosynthesis. His group targets the structural and functional modelisation of hydrogenases, the design of artificial organometallic proteins and the design of novel nanomaterials for hydrogen photo- and electro-production, hydrogen oxidation and CO2 reduction. Vincent Artero received the "Grand Prix Mergier-Bourdeix de l'Académie des Sciences" in 2011. In 2012, he was granted with a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). He currently acts as Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the ARCANE Excellence Laboratory Network (LABEX) for bio-driven chemistry in Grenoble and co-chair of the French research Network (GDR) on solar fuels.
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.
Nam-Gyu Park, Associate Editor
Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
ORCiD http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2368-6300
Nam-Gyu Park is professor and SKKU-Fellow at School of Chemical Engineering and adjunct professor at Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from Seoul National University in 1988, 1992 and 1995, respectively. He worked at ICMCB-CNRS, France, from 1996 to 1997 and at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA, from 1997 to 1999 as postdoctoral researchers. He worked as Director of Solar Cell Research Center at Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) from 2005 to 2009 and as a principal scientist at Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) from 2000 to 2005 before joining Sungkyunkwan University as a full professor in 2009. He has been doing researches on high efficiency mesoscopic solar cells including perovskite solar cell and dye-sensitized solar cell since 1997. He is pioneer in solid state perovskite solar cell, which was first developed in 2012. He received awards, including Scientist Award of the Month (MEST, Korea), KyungHyang Electricity and Energy Award (KEPCO, Korea), KIST Award of the Year (KIST, Korea) and Dupont Science and Technology Award (Dupont Korea), SKKU fellowship, and MRS Outstanding Research Award (MRS, Boston), WCPEC Paper Award (Kyoto, Japan), Hamakawa Award of PVSEC (Busan, Korea) and KAST Engineering Award (KAST, Korea). He published over 220 peer-reviewed scientific papers, including Science, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Energy and Nature Communications, 80 patent applications, 1 book editor, 7 book chapters. He received H-index of 66 as of January, 2017.
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.
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”.
