Andrew Cooper, Editor-in-chief
University of Liverpool, UK
Andy is a Nottingham graduate (1991), also obtaining his Ph.D there in 1994. After his Ph.D, he held a 1851 Fellowship and a Royal Society NATO Fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and then a Ramsay Memorial Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge. In 1999, he was appointed as a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in Liverpool. In 2007, he was the founding Director of the Centre for Materials Discovery—the forerunner of the MIF—which cemented a long-term strategic collaboration between Unilever and the University of Liverpool. He was Head of Chemistry and then the first Head of the School of Physical Sciences in the period 2007-2012, during which time he served on the University Council. In 2017, he co-founded a spin-out company, Porous Liquid Technologies, with collaborators at Queens University Belfast, based on an entirely new class of material, porous liquids, invented in the UK as part of an EPSRC-funded project (Nature, 2015, 527, 216).
Andy led the bid to establish the Materials Innovation Factory (MIF) via the UK Research Partnerships Infrastructure Fund and he is its first Academic Director. He is also the Director of the £10 M Leverhulme Centre for Functional Materials Design. His main research interests are organic materials, supramolecular chemistry, and materials for energy production and molecular separation. This is underpinned by a strong technical interest in high-throughput methods and robotics. A unifying theme in his research is the close fusion of computational prediction and experiment to discover new materials with step-change properties (Nature, 2011, 474, 367; Nature, 2017, 543, 657). This has involved close collaboration with Graeme Day, Professor of Chemical Modelling at the University of Southampton.
Andy was elected to the Royal Society in 2015. He has been awarded the Macro Group Young Researchers Award (2002), the RSC Award in Environmentally Friendly Polymers (2005), the McBain Medal (2007), the Corday-Morgan Prize (2009), the Macro Group Award (2010), a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, the Tilden Prize (2014), and the American Chemical Society Doolittle Award (2014). He was also the 2015 MIT-Georgia Pacific Lecturer in Organic Chemistry. In both 2011 and 2014, Andy was named in a Thomson Reuters list as one of the Top 100 materials scientists of the last decade. He was also named in the more recent 2017 Clarivate Highly Cited list in the field of chemistry. He was awarded an ERC Advanced Investigators grant in 2012 (RobOT). In 2015, he was appointed as a Consultant Professor inHauzhong University of Science & Technology, China. He was also appointed as an Honorary Professor at East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, in 2017.
Vincent Artero, Associate editor
University Grenoble Alpes and CEA, France
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6148-8471
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.
Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Associate editor
University of Toronto, Canada
I am a Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science at the University of Toronto. I am a theoretical physical chemist and my research interests lie at the interface of theoretical chemistry, quantum information, applied mathematics and computer science. In particular, I am very interested in the use of quantum computers for the simulation of chemical systems. My group develop algorithms for them and collaborate with experimental groups carrying out simulations using early prototype quantum computers. We are also interested in the use of high-throughput discovery and machine learning approaches for the discovery of novel organic molecules. We have focused on discovering organic molecules for flow batteries, as well as organic light-emitting diodes. Finally, I am also interested in the light-harvesting processes of photosynthetic organisms and how to translate them to artificial systems. As an editor for Chemical Science, I look forward to receiving exciting papers that push the frontiers of theoretical chemistry. In particular, I wish to emphasize that in Chemical Science we are not only interested in applications, but also on exciting methods development manuscripts.
Rahul Banerjee, Associate editor
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, India
Professor Rahul Banerjee received his PhD degree from University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad in 2006. After a postdoctoral work in UCLA (2006-2008), he joined CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India in 2008 as a Scientist. Rahul Banerjee is currently an Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata. His research interests include the study of structural chemistry with the flavor of chemical synthesis to design new porous materials. His group has been working in the field of porous framework structure generation for storage and capture, as well as bottom up synthesis from inorganic, metal-organic and organic molecules. Professor Rahul Banerjee has published over 135 publications and 24 patents applications from CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata on various porous framework materials since 2010 and received more than 12000 citations. Professor Banerjee is the recipient of recipient of DST-Swarna Jayanti-Fellowship in 2017, Thomson Reuters Research Excellence-India Citation Award 2015, NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award for 2014, CSIR- Young Scientist Award 2011, NASI- Young Scientist Platinum JubileeAward 2011, Young Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2009- 2012). Professor Banerjee was an editorial board member and associate editor of CrystEngComm. Professor Banerjee was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry [FRSC] in recognition of his significant contribution to Chemical Science and, in particular, to his work on the board of CrystEngComm.
Luis M. Campos, Associate editor
Columbia University, USA
I was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and moved at the age of 11 to Los Angeles, California. I received a B.Sc. in Chemistry from CSU Dominguez Hills in 2001, and a Ph.D. from the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at UCLA in 2006 under the tutelage of Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay and K. N. Houk. After my graduate studies in Physical Organic Chemistry, I switched to Polymer Chemistry, working in the laboratory of Craig J. Hawker at the Materials Research Laboratory. At Columbia, my group’s research interests lie in the fundamentals of Physical Macromolecular Chemistry, with interests in polymer synthesis, self-assembly, and organic electronic materials.
Michelle Chang, Associate editor
University of California at Berkeley, USA
I was born in San Diego, CA and also attended UC San Diego for my undergraduate work. I then moved to MIT for my graduate studies as a joint student with Dan Nocera and JoAnne Stubbe. After postdoctoral studies with Jay Keasling at UC Berkeley, I started my independent career at UC Berkeley in the Department of Chemistry with a joint appoint in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology. My research group works at the interface of enzymology and synthetic biology, with a focus on studying biological fluorine chemistry, formation of mixed-valent nanomaterials by directional-sensing bacteria, and processes involved in developing synthetic pathways. for the production of fuels and commodity chemicals.
Lin X. Chen, Associate editor
Northwestern University, USA
Lin X. Chen is a Professor of Chemistry in Northwestern University and a Senior Chemist in Argonne National Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. After her postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley, she joined Argonne as a staff scientist. In 2007, she joined Northwestern University where her research are focused on fundamental light-matter interactions of different solar energy conversion platforms, including excited state molecular structural dynamics in photocatalytic processes and photovoltaic materials; understanding roles of ultrafast and coherent electronic and atomic motions in in photochemical reactions, and functional structural dynamics of biomacromolecules on multiple spatial and temporal scales. Her main tools for research are ultrafast laser and X-ray spectroscopy/scattering and other property/structural methods in collaborations with theorists and chemists making molecules and materials.
She was awarded one of the highly cited scientists in 2019 by the Web of Science, with >230 publications, and >200 invited lectures. She has been members of the Research Council for the Chemical, Biological and Geological Sciences Division, Basic Energy Science, US Department of Energy, the Advisory Editorial Board of Journal of Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics Letters, Senior Editor of ACS Energy Letters, and the International Science Advisory Committee for π-Functional Materials. She is an AAAS Fellow and has won distinguished performance award at Argonne. Her group website is at http://chemgroups.northwestern.edu/chen_group/.
Serena DeBeer, Associate editor
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Germany
Serena DeBeer is a Professor and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University, an honorary faculty member at Ruhr University in Bochum, and the group leader of the PINK Beamline at the Energy Materials In‐Situ Laboratory at Helmholtz Zentrum in Berlin. She received her B.S. in Chemistry at Southwestern University in 1995 and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2002. From 2002-2009, she was a staff scientist at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, before moving to her faculty position at Cornell. Research in the DeBeer group is focused on the development and application of advanced X-ray spectroscopic tools for understanding key mechanisms in biological, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis.
Mircea Dinca, Associate editor
MIT, USA
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1262-1264
I grew up in Romania and moved to the US for my Bachelor's degree at Princeton University, where I graduated with a BA in Chemistry in 2003. Following graduate studies in Inorganic Chemistry at UC Berkeley, I moved to MIT for a postdoctoral appointment in 2008, and was offered an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Chemistry at MIT starting in 2010. I was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015 and offered tenure in 2017. My research interests lie in the synthesis of new multifunctional materials for applications in electrical and electronic devices, heterogeneous catalysis, and various uses in clean and renewable energy. In recognition of my group's research I have been awarded the Alan T. Waterman Award from the NSF in 2016 and the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry in 2018, among several others.
Vy Dong, Associate editor
University of California, Irvine, USA
I was born in Big Spring, Texas and spent my early childhood in west Texas before moving with family to Anaheim, California. I completed my bachelor’s degree in chemistry at UC Irvine, doctoral studies at Caltech, and postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley. I began my independent academic career at the University of Toronto, where I was promoted with tenure and named the Adrian Brook Professor. After six years in Canada, I returned to the United States to assume a professorship at my alma mater, UC Irvine. My research team is interested in new reaction methods, enantioselective catalysis, and natural product synthesis. I started as an associate editor for Chemical Science in 2015.
François Gabbaï, Associate Editor
Texas A&M University, USA
François Gabbaï was born in France and attended the University of Bordeaux before moving to UT Austin where he became a PhD student with Alan Cowley. Upon completion of his Ph.D. in 1994, he joined the group of Hubert Schmidbaur at the Technical University of Munich, first as a postdoctoral fellow and later as an Habilitand. Upon completion of his Habilitation in 1998, he moved to Texas A&M University where he now holds the Arthur E. Martell Chair of Chemistry. His research interests revolve around the chemistry of p-block elements and late transition metals with applications in anion recognition, anion transport, and catalysis. His is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the recipient of the 2009 North American Dalton Lectureship. In 2016, he also received the ACS F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry.
Stephen Goldup, Associate editor
University of Southampton, UK
I studied at the University of Oxford (MChem, Prof. Sir Jack Baldwin) and Imperial College (PhD, Prof. Tony Barrett) where my research focused on natural product synthesis, before moving to Edinburgh (PDRA, Prof. David Leigh) to apply my synthetic skills to interlocked molecules and molecular machines. In 2008 I took up my first independent research position at Queen Mary, University of London, first as a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow and then as a Royal Society Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer. In 2014 I moved to the University of Southampton where I am now Professor of Chemistry. I work with an outstanding group of young scientists demonstrating new applications of interlocked molecules in a range of areas including catalysis, materials, sensing and chemical biology. We are particularly interested in the applications of new forms of stereochemistry associated with the mechanical bond.
Christopher A Hunter, Associate editor
University of Cambridge, UK
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5182-1859
I was born in New Zealand in 1965 and moved to Northern Ireland with my parents in 1969. Following an undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences at Churchill College (1983-1986), I stayed at the University of Cambridge for a PhD in the University Chemical Laboratory (1986-1989). I was appointed to a Lectureship in Bioorganic Chemistry at the University of Otago in New Zealand in 1989. I moved to the University of Sheffield in 1991 and was promoted to Professor of Chemistry in 1997. In 2014, I returned to the University of Cambridge as the Herchel Smith Professor of Organic Chemistry and Fellow of Emmanuel College. I am a Fellow of the Royal Society and an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy. My research interests are the physical organic chemistry of non-covalent interactions and solvation, with applications in understanding biological systems and the development of new functional supramolecular assemblies.
Maja Köhn, Associate editor
University of Freiburg, Germany
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8142-3504
Maja Köhn is a Professor for Integrative Signaling Research at the Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Germany. She studied chemistry at the University of Kiel and moved afterwards to the Max-Planck-Institute and the University in Dortmund, where she obtained her PhD under the direction of H. Waldmann in 2005. After Maja’s postdoctoral work with G. L. Verdine at Harvard University, she started her independent career in 2007 as a group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany. In 2016 Maja moved to Freiburg for her current position. Research in her group focuses on the development and application of tools using synthetic chemistry and molecular cell biology to study and target phosphatases in health and disease.
Yi-Tao Long, Associate Editor
Nanjing University, China
I am a Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Nanjing University. I received my B.S. in Chemistry at Shandong University in 1989 and obtained my Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Hongyuan Chen from Nanjing University in 1998. After undertaking two-year postdoctoral studies at Heidelberg University, I worked at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Alberta over 5 years in Canada. Following one more year of research at UC Berkeley, I started my independent career at the East China University of Science and Technology in 2007 where the concept of single-molecule interface has been developed. My research focuses on the development of new electrochemical measurement methods to reveal the characteristics and dynamics of single entities, which involves the nanopore single molecule electroanalysis, biointerface spectroelectrochemistry and integrated biosensors. As an associate editor for Chemical Science, I expect to see the cutting-edge papers that lead to the frontiers of analytical science and electrochemistry.
Heather Maynard, Associate editor
University of California Los Angeles, USA
Heather D. Maynard is the Dr. Myung Ki Hong Professor in Polymer Science in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA. Maynard is a leader in the area of protein-polymer conjugates, which are important therapeutics for a variety of diseases. She develops new synthetic methods to make the materials, designs new polymers to improve properties such as stability, and demonstrates preclinical efficacy of her conjugates with an eye towards translation for human health. Maynard also works in the areas of smart materials, biomaterials, and nanomaterials for precision medicine. Maynard’s research and teaching have been recognized by numerous awards, including most recently the American Chemical Society Arthur Cope Scholar Award and Bioconjugate Chemistry Lectureship Award; the UCLA Student Development Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award; and election as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow. Maynard is also an American Chemical Society POLY and PMSE, Leverhulme, Kavli Frontiers, and Royal Society of Chemistry Fellow and was a Fulbright Specialist in New Zealand. Maynard received her PhD from the California Institute of Technology and was an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH).
James K McCusker, Associate editor
Michigan State University, USA
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5684-3117
I am Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center of Research Excellence in Complex Materials (CORE-CM) at Michigan State University, where I have been teaching since 2001. Prior to this I was Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. I received my undergraduate from Bucknell University (1987) and my PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1992), then joined the University of North Carolina as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, where I worked with Professor Thomas J. Meyer from 1992-94.
My group’s research revolves around the ultrafast excited-state dynamics of transition metal complexes – in particular as this relates to the development of solar energy conversion strategies – as well as the interplay between zero-field spin polarization and the physical and photophysical properties of molecular systems.
Thomas J Meade, Associate editor
Northwestern University, USA
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6202-1155
I am the Eileen M. Foell Professor of Cancer Research and Professor of Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences, Neurobiology & Physiology, and Radiology at Northwestern University, as well as the Director of the Center for Advanced Molecular Imaging. In my previous position at Caltech and the Beckman Institute I pioneered the development of the first bioactivated MR probes and new hand-held chips for DNA diagnostics. My research focuses on bioinorganic coordination chemistry and its applications in research, which include biological molecular imaging, transcription factor inhibitors and the development of electronic biosensors for the detection of DNA and proteins.
Paolo Melchiorre, Associate editor
Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Spain
I studied Chemistry at the University of Bologna (Italy), where I received the PhD in Chemistry in 2003, working in the area of asymmetric catalysis. In 2002, I spent a research period in Denmark at the “Center for Catalysis”, Århus University, where my studies centered on enantioselective organocatalysis. From 2003, I worked as a postdoctoral associate at the Industrial Chemistry Faculty of the Bologna University. In October 2007, I started my independent career as an Assistant Professor at Bologna University. In September 2009, I joined the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) in Tarragona (Spain) as an ICREA (Catalan Institution of Research and Advanced Studies) Professor and ICIQ Group Leader.
My current scientific interests lie on the discovery and mechanistic elucidation of catalytic enantioselective strategies for chemical synthesis, mainly using photochemical and radical reactivity patterns. The final goal is to develop innovative catalytic methods to control reaction selectivity while reducing the environmental impact of chemical synthesis.
Gabriel Merino, Associate editor
Cinvestav Mérida, México
I am a Professor in the Applied Physics Department at Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados Merida (Cinvestav Mérida), México. I studied at Universidad de las Americas Puebla (B. S. in Chemistry, 1997) and Cinvestav Zacatenco (Ph. D. in Chemistry, 2003) under the supervision of Alberto Vela. I then joined the group of Gotthard Seifert and Thomas Heine at TU Dresden as a postdoctoral fellow before returning to México in 2005 to take up my first independent research position at the Universidad de Guanajuato. In 2012, I decided to move to Cinvestav Mérida where my research group is one of the most active groups in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry in México and Latin America. I spent a couple of long research stays at Cornell University (Roald Hoffmann, 2005), and the University of the Basque Country (Jesus Ugalde, 2011).
I am a member of the Mexican National Researcher System (Level 3) and a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. I have been awarded the Research Grant from the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias (2012), the Catedra Marcos Moshinsky (2012), the National Prize “Andres Manuel del Rio” in Chemistry from the Mexican Chemical Society (2017), the Walter Kohn Award (2018) from the International Center of Theoretical Physics, and the Moshinsky Medal (2019) from Institute of Physics (UNAM). The main research interests of my group are the prediction of new chemical entities and the study of central concepts of chemistry, such as chemical bonding and aromaticity.
Carsten Schultz, Associate editor
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
I have been a group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) since 2001 and a Senior Scientist there since 2008. I received my PhD from the University of Bremen in 1989, then spent some time as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego before returning to Germany to take up a position at the University of Bremen in 1997 for a few years.
I lead the Schultz Group at EMBL in Heidelberg. Our lab is interested in better understanding complex intracellular signalling networks relevant in diabetes, cancer, lung inflammation and metabolic diseases. For this purpose we develop probes useful for visualizing intracellular events such as enzyme activities, lipid metabolism or protein translocation in intact cells. The Schultz lab also constructs tools to manipulate cell components and their activities.
Dmitri Talapin, Associate editor
The University of Chicago, USA
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6414-8587
I am a professor in the Department of Chemistry and James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago. The interests of my research team focus on different aspects of chemistry and physics of inorganic nanomaterials. We use a broad family of nanostructures as building blocks for constructing functional materials. In pursuit of this goal, we synthesize novel nanostructures, develop techniques for their self-assembly and integration in electronic and optoelectronic devices.
I received my doctorate degree from the University of Hamburg, Germany in 2002, followed by a postdoctoral work at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. In 2005-2007, I was a staff scientist at the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and finally joined faculty of the University of Chicago in 2007. My accolades include Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award, Top 100 chemists of the decade based on citation impact by Thompson Reuters, David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, and few other. I was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2014.
Toshiharu Teranishi, Associate editor
Kyoto University, Japan
I am a professor at Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University. I received my PhD from The University of Tokyo under the direction of Prof. Naoki Toshima in 1994, and spent seven and a half years at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology as an Assistant Professor and an Associate Professor. In 2004, I moved to University of Tsukuba as a Full Professor, and moved to Kyoto University in 2011. Current research interests include precise structural control of inorganic nanomaterials and structure-specific functions for high-performance devices and photo-energy conversion. I am a vice president of the Society of Nano Science and Technology, Japan, and an associate member of Science Council of Japan.
Jihong Yu, Associate editor
Jilin University, China
I have been a full professor at Jilin University since 1999, having also completed my BS, MS and PhD there. Between 1996 and 1998 I undertook positions as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong and as a JST-CREST researcher at Tohoku University in Japan.
My group's research focuses on three main areas, including synthesis of new types of inorganic microporous materials, investigating new routes to the synthesis of inorganic microporous materials, and working toward the rational design and synthesis of inorganic microporous materials.
I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Secretary-General of the International Zeolite Association (IZA) and in 2015 was officially elected as Academician by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Andrei Yudin, Associate editor
University of Toronto, Canada
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3170-9103
Andrei Yudin received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Moscow State University in 1992. he then became a doctoral student at the University of Southern California (1992-1996) and later received postdoctoral training at the Scripps Research Institute (1996-1998). Since 1998, He has been on the chemistry faculty at the University of Toronto. His lab attempts to solve some of the long-standing challenges in chemistry by creating and exploring amphoteric molecules. The structures developed by my students often defy logic because the corresponding molecules feature both nucleophilic and electrophilic nodes of reactivity. Some of the peptide macrocycle and boron technologies that emerged as a result of his lab's research, have enabled the discovery of new bioactive molecules and led to the creation of spin-off companies. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and started his position of Associate Editor for Chemical Science in December 2018.
