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).
Lutz Ackermann, Associate Editor
University of Göttingen, Germany
Lutz Ackermann studied Chemistry at the University Kiel (Germany), and performed his PhD with Prof. Alois Fürstner at the Max-PlankInstitut für Kohlenforschung (Mülheim/Ruhr, 2001). After a postdoctoral stay at UC Berkeley with Prof. Robert G. Bergman, he initiated his independent research career in 2003 at the Ludwig Maximilians-University München. In 2007, he became Full Professor (W3) at the Georg-August-University Göttingen. His recent awards and distinctions include an AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award (2011), an ERC Consolidator Grant (2012), a Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Preis (2017) and an ERC Advanced Grant (2021). The development and application of novel concepts for sustainable catalysis constitutes his major current research interests, with a topical focus on electrocatalysis and bond activation.
Davide Bonifazi, Associate Editor
University of Vienna, Austria
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.
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.
Fengtao Fan, Associate Editor
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9828-6988
After revealing the assembly process of zeolite catalysts by in situ UV Raman spectroscopy, I received my Ph.D. in 2010 under the guidance of Prof. Can Li, from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics(DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS). At the same year, I joined DICP as an associate Professor through the talent selection plan for the outstanding PhD graduates. I started my scientific career by thinking about how to reveal the charge separation process in artificial synthesis process through characterization techniques innovation. In 2012, after being a visiting scholar in Prof. Bert Weckhuysen`s group at Utrecht university, I came back to DICP and developed Spatially Resolved Surface Photovoltage Spectroscopy (SRSPS) to “see” the charge distribution on the surface and interface of photocatalyst at nano scale. In 2015, I was promoted to Full Professor at DICP and now I am the Chair Professor at DICP and also the Vice Director of State Key Laboratory of Catalysis(SKLC) at DICP. My research interest lies in heterogenous catalysis, photocatalysis and electrocatalysis, with a focus on understanding the fundamentals of these processes by advanced space- and time- resolved spectroscopy.
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.
Kim E Jelfs, Associate Editor
Imperial College London, UK
I am a Reader in Computational Materials Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London. I received my PhD in Computational Chemistry from University College London and did post-doctoral work at the University of Liverpool. My group specialises in the use of computer simulations to assist in the discovery of supramolecular materials, particularly porous materials and organic electronics. In terms of porous materials, my research focuses on porous molecular materials, polymer membranes and amorphous metal-organic frameworks. My research includes the development of open-source software to automate the assembly and testing of materials, with the application of artificial intelligence techniques including an evolutionary algorithm and machine learning.
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.
Connie Lu, Associate Editor
University of Bonn, Germany
My research interests span inorganic and organometallic chemistry, especially topics in chemical bonding, electronic structure, reactivity and catalysis. My research group designs and develops bimetallic active sites, primarily in molecular complexes but also in metal-organic frameworks, to harness metal-metal interactions for small-molecule activation and catalysis.
I was born in Taipei, Taiwan and grew up in Miami, Florida, USA. I earned a BS degree from MIT and a PhD degree from Caltech with Jonas Peters. I was an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck for Bioinorganic Chemistry with Karl Wieghardt. I started my independent career at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2009, received tenure in 2015, and became full professor in 2020.
Honors and awards include a NSF CAREER Award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, and a Bessel Research Award. I have served on the editorial boards of Inorganic Chemistry, Chemical Society Reviews, and Dalton Transactions and as the chair of the Coordination Chemistry subdivision in the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry.
Marinella Mazzanti, Associate editor
EPFL, Switzerland
https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-3427-008X
Marinella Mazzanti was born in Vinci, Italy, a small town in Tuscany home to Leonardo da Vinci. She obtained a Master's degree from the University of Pisa in 1985 after spending a year in Columbia University (NY). She obtained a PhD from the University of Lausanne in 1990 . Shortly after she moved to the University of California, Berkeley, and then to the University of California, Davis, where she worked with Prof. Alan Balch. In 1994 she was awarded a two years Marie-Curie fellowship to join the French National Laboratory, CEA, in Grenoble. In 1996 she was hired as a research scientist and team leader at the CEA Grenoble where she started her independent research centered on f elements. In September 2014 she joined the EPFL and founded the Group of Coordination Chemistry. She will continue to develop the chemistry of f and d block metals with particular focus on redox reactivity, supramolecular chemistry and small molecule activation. She is coauthor of more than 170 scientific papers in refereed international journals and she recently received the F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic 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.
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).
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).
