Meet the Editor Online: NJC (New Journal of Chemistry)

Maarten B. J. Roeffaers graduated from the Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, KU Leuven (Belgium), in 2008 studying zeolite catalysis with fluorescence microscopy. After a postdoctoral stay (2009–2010) with Prof. Xie at Harvard University (USA) on the development and use of coherent Raman microscopy, he returned to the KU Leuven. In 2010, he started his own research group (www.roeffaers-lab.org) focusing on the development of optical microscopy tools to study heterogeneous catalysis and materials for sustainable chemistry. Amongst others, he was awarded a prestigious ERC starting grant (2012) and received the biennial ExxonMobil Chemical European Science and Engineering Award (2015).

Akhila K. Sahoo was born in 1972 at Bhubaneswar (Odisha), India. He completed doctoral study at the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune under the supervision of Prof. Ganesh Pandey in 2001. He worked as a postdoc researcher at the RWTH-Aachen-Germany with Prof. Hans-Joachim Gais (2002), Prof. Tamejiro Hiyama, Kyoto University, Japan (JSPS; 2002-2004), and finally with Prof. Atsuhiro Osuka, Kyoto University (2004-2006). He then worked as a scientist at the Sai Advantium Pharma Limited (2006-2007), Hyderabad. He then joined the School of Chemistry [Assistant Professor (2007-2012), Associate professor (2013-2016)] University of Hyderabad. Currently, he is working as Professor. His research interest revolves in the development of novel transformations on metal-catalyzed C-H activation, Au-catalyzed synthetic methods, and construction of strained N, and O-rich energetic materials. He is the Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Member of the National Academy of Science, India.

Dr Andrew Shore completed his Doctor of Philosophy - PhD focused in Environmental Earth Sciences from University of Leicester. Dr Shore joined RSC in 2010 as part of the Inorganic journal portfolio including Dalton Transactions and CrystEngComm. He has held multiple positions within the portfolio with responsibilities for peer review, Associate Editor support, workflow and production management and the overall operational management of the journals in the portfolio. In 2015, he became the Executive Editor of Dalton Transactions, CrystEngComm, New Journal of Chemistry and Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. He was previously the Executive Editor of RSC Advances where he managed the conversion to an Associate Editor-led journal in 2015 and the conversion to a gold open access journal in 2017.