Douglas Stephan, Chair
University of Toronto, Canada
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8140-8355
I am a professor of chemistry at the University of Toronto, a position I have held since 2008. Prior to this I was a professor at the University of Windsor from 1982 to 2007. I have a BSc from McMaster University and a PhD from University of Western Ontario, and between 1980 and 1982 I was a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University.
My group's research interests span a wide range of inorganic main group and organometallic chemistry. In the more fundamental projects, we target new reactivity and chemical transformations with a view to developing new catalysts to either new materials or new processes. In addition, collaborations with industry address the design and development of new catalyst and process technologies for use in commercial applications.
Honours and awards include the Canadian Green Chemistry and Engineering Award and the CIC Medal (Chemical Institute of Canada) (both 2014), Fellow of the Royal Society (2013), and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2010).
Davide Bonifazi, Associate Editor
University of Vienna
I am Professor in Organic Chemistry at the University of Vienna since 2020. I studied as undergraduate student at the University of Parma and obtained my PhD at the ETH Zürich with Prof. F. Diederich. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of Trieste with Prof. M. Prato, I joined the same University as a researcher first, and then as part-time Associate Professor. In 2006 I joined the University of Namur as Professor and in 2016 moved to Cardiff University as Chair Professor until my current appointment. My research interests are focused on the development of organic synthetic strategies to create functional supramolecular architectures for applications in interdisciplinary projects with materials science and biology. Current topics include the synthesis of heteroatom-doped nanographenes, exploration of novel non-covalent interactions, self-assembly and self-organisation in solution and on surfaces, manufacturing of supramolecular materials, artificial light harvesting antennas, applied photochemistry, flexible electronics, and supramolecular systems interfacing cellular functions.
Penny Brothers, Associate editor
Australian National University, Australia
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8350-2361
I am New Zealander educated at the University of Auckland and at Stanford University. I have been on the faculty of the School of Chemical Sciences at the University of Auckland since 1986 and have held visiting professor positions at the University of California at Davis and at Berkeley, the University of Heidelberg, the University of Münster, the University of Burgundy, Peking University, UiT the Arctic University of Norway and Los Alamos National Laboratory. I am a member of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. My research interests encompass inorganic and organometallic synthesis chemistry, especially involving the main group elements. Currently, for example, I am investigating the chemistry of boron coordinated to porphyrin and corrole ligands, BODIPY fluorophores for sugar recognition and surface patterning using molecular pentagons.
Rachel Caruso, Associate editor
RMIT University, Australia
I am a Professor in Physical Chemistry and Director of the Advanced Materials Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT University. My research group focuses on the controlled synthesis of porous inorganic materials, primarily metal oxides, with potential application as electrodes in dye sensitised solar cells or electron transfer layers in perovskite solar cells, lithium ion battery anodes, and as photocatalysts and sorbents for heavy metal ions in water remediation.
Daniel R Gamelin, Associate editor
University of Washington, USA
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2888-9916
I lead a research group at the University of Washington, where I am the Harry and Catherine Jaynne Boand Endowed Professor of Chemistry. I received my PhD in Chemistry from Stanford University in 1998. My research targets the development and physical characterization of new functional inorganic materials with unusual electronic structures that give rise to desirable photophysical, photochemical, chemical, electronic, magnetic, or magneto-optical properties. I was chosen as the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and a Sloan Research Fellowship.
Itaru Hamachi, Associate editor
Kyoto University, Japan
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3327-3916
I was born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan in 1960 and received my Ph.D. in 1988 from Kyoto University under the guidance of the late Professor Iwao Tabushi. Immediately thereafter I joined Kyushu University, where I worked as an Assistant Professor for three years in the Kunitake laboratory before I became an Associate Professor in the Shinkai laboratory in 1992. In 2001, I was promoted to Full Professor at IFOC, Kyushu University, and moved to Kyoto University in 2005 where I currently head the bioorganic chemistry wing. I have been a PRESTO investigator for 7 years (from 2000 to 2006) and a team leader of two CREST projects (from 2008 to 2013 and then from 2013 to 2018), which are all supported by the Japan Science and Technology (JST) Agency. My research group targets challenges in chemical biology with specific expertise in live-cell organic chemistry, chemical biology, bioorganic and bioinorganic chemistry, and supramolecular biomaterials.
Michaele Hardie, Associate Editor
University of Leeds, UK
ORCID: 0000-0001-6586-7981
I am Professor of Supramolecular Chemistry, and current Head of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Leeds. I was educated at the University of Melbourne, gaining a PhD in 1996. After postdoctoral positions in the US and Australia, I was appointed as lecturer in inorganic chemistry at Leeds in 2001. My research interests are in the areas of metallo-supramolecular chemistry, host-guest chemistry, along with a strong interest in chemical crystallography. The research group has a particular focus on the development of molecular hosts and cages of the cyclotriveratrylene-host family; self-assembly and behaviour of discrete nano-scale metallo-supramolecular cages and complexes; networked crystalline assemblies; and coordination polymers/metal-organic frameworks from host-like or simpler ligands. I was awarded the RSC Corday-Morgan Prize and Medal in 2011.
Chao-Jun Li, Associate Editor
McGill University, Canada
Prof. Chao-Jun Li is the E. B. Eddy Chair Professor of Chemistry and Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Green Chemistry at McGill University, Canada. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) (UK), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) and Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS). He served as the Co-Chair of the Canadian Green Chemistry and Engineering Network, the Director of the CFI Facility for Green Chemistry and Green Chemicals, the Director of NSERC CREATE (Center) for Green Chemistry, and the Co-Director of the FQRNT Center for Green Chemistry and Catalysis (Quebec). Previously, he served as the Associate Editor for Green Chemistry (RSC), 2005-2020. Dr. Li received a number of prestigious awards including the US National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award (1997), a United States Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (2001), and the R. U. Lemieux Award (2015), the Alfred Bader Award (2018) and the Catalysis Award (2020) of the Chemical Institute of Canada.
His current research efforts are to develop innovative and fundamentally new chemical reactions that will defy conventional reactivities and possess high “atom-efficiency”. Well-known research developed by Dr. Li include a wide range of Grignard-type reactions in water, transition-metal catalysis in air and water, alkyne-aldehyde-amine coupling (A3-coupling), the Cross-Dehydrogenative-Coupling (CDC) reactions, the umpolung of hydrazones as organometallic reagents surrogates, biomass conversions, activation of small molecules (methane, N2, CO2) by GaN and photo-chemistry.
Amy Prieto, Associate editor
Colorado State University, USA
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9235-185X
I am a solid state chemist interested in helping publish high quality manuscripts in the general area of energy storage and conversion. I received my training at the University of California, Berkeley (PhD, Bell Laboratories graduate fellow) and at Harvard University (postdoctoral fellowship, L'Oreal for Women in Science fellowship). I am currently an Associate Professor in Chemistry at Colorado State University, and am also the founder of Prieto Battery, Inc. My research interests are focused on developing new synthetic methods for making nanostructured materials with applications in rechargeable batteries, solar cell absorber materials, and hydrogen storage.
S Ramakrishnan, Associate editor
Indian Institute of Science, India
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9161-0848
I completed my BSc at the University of Bombay, my MSc at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and received my PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1988. After a two-year postdoctoral stint at the Corporate Research Laboratory of Exxon Research and Engineering Company at Annandale, New Jersey, I took up a faculty position in the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, where I currently serve as one of the Deputy Directors. I was awarded the prestigious S S Bhatnagar Prize for Chemistry in 2005 and am currently a J C Bose Fellow. My research interests are in the design and development of novel polymerization methods, hyperbranched polymers, conjugated polymers, polymerization in ordered media, internally functionalized porous polymers and conformational control in synthetic polymers. I currently serve on the Editorial Advisory Board of Macromolecules and ACS Macro Letters.
Manfred Scheer, Associate editor
University of Regensburg, Germany
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2182-5020
After studying chemistry at the University of Halle and completing the Diploma (1980) and the PhD (1983) in the area of Sn(II) chemistry, a post-doctoral research stay followed: on solid state chemistry at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk, and on catalysis at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim/Ruhr, with Gerhard Wilke. I finished my habilitation in 1992 at the University of Halle and was guest professor with Professor M H Chisholm at Indiana University in Bloomington, USA. In 1993, I moved to the University of Karlsruhe where I became an Associate Professor of Chemistry (C3) in 1996. In 2004 I accepted the role of Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Regensburg. I have more than 290 research papers in peer review journals.
My research interest lies in organometallic chemistry with a focus on main group element chemistry on the interface to transition metal complexes.
Yang Tian, Associate Editor
East China Normal University, China
I am an analytical chemist. I received my Ph.D. in 2003 from Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT, Japan), and thereafter I joined Tokyo University, where I worked as a JSPS fellow for two years. In 2005, I returned Shanghai and was promoted to Full Professor at Tongji University, and moved to East China Normal University (ECNU) in 2013. My research interests are focused on developing new analytical methods and instruments for real-time targeting and quantification of biological species in the live brain, and further investigating the molecular basis in the physiological and pathological events such as aging, ischemia, and brain diseases. I was chosen as a recipient of the National Distinguished Young Scholars (2013).
T Don Tilley, Associate editor
University of California, Berkeley, USA
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6671-9099
I am an inorganic, organometallic and materials chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, and I also have an appointment as a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. My research group focuses on fundamental questions pertaining to structure and reactivity of metal complexes, catalytic mechanisms, and materials designed for the efficient utilization and storage of energy. This work is strongly oriented toward the synthesis of new compounds and materials that challenge our understanding of basic principles in chemistry, and is described in more than 400 publications. I have worked extensively with partners in industry on practical applications of this research.
Sandeep Verma, Associate editor
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2478-8109
I obtained my MSc from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India (1989), then obtained my Ph.D. from University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, USA in 1994. After holding postdoctoral positions at Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions, Baltimore, USA, and Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany, I joined the Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur, in 1997, where I currently serve as Department Chair and also occupy Shri Deva Raj Endowed Chair Professorship and an Adjunct Professor position in Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering. In addition, I also hold an Adjunct Professor position at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal and National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar. My research interests include peptide/protein assemblies for disease modeling, soft biomaterials, bioimaging, and surface chemistry of metal complexes. Our work has been recognized by numerous awards such as Swarnajayanti Fellowship (2005), Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Chemical Sciences (2010), Department of Atomic Energy-Science Research Council Outstanding Investigator Award (2012), Ranbaxy Research Award in Pharmaceutical Sciences (2013), J C Bose National Fellowship (2013), Silver Medal, Chemical Research Society of India (2017), and National Prize for Research on Interfaces between Chemistry and Biology (2017), to name a few. I am also an elected Fellow of all three science and engineering Academies of India: the Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India; and also of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK).
