Michael Saliba, Editor-in-Chief
University of Stuttgart & Research Center Juelich, Germany
Prof. Michael Saliba is a full professor and the director of the Institute for Photovoltaics (ipv) at the University of Stuttgart. He holds a dual appointment at the Helmholtz Research Center Jülich, Germany. His research focuses on a deeper understanding and improvement of optoelectronic properties of photovoltaic materials with an emphasis on emerging perovskites for a sustainable energy future. Prof. Saliba’s seminal work on multicomponent perovskites has established a general strategy for the combinatorial synthesis and exploration of novel materials. Michael Saliba also is the Speaker of the Graduate School for “Quantum Engineering”. He was awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council.
Previously, Prof. Saliba was an Assistant Professor at TU Darmstadt, a Group Leader at Fribourg University and a Marie Curie Fellow at EPFL with research stays at Cornell and Stanford. He obtained his PhD at Oxford University and MSc degrees in Physics and Mathematics at Stuttgart University together with the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research.
Prof. Saliba has published 200 works attracting 50,000 citations and filed 5 patents in the fields of plasmonics, lasers, LEDs and perovskite optoelectronics. He was on the Early Career Board of Nano Letters, is on the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Energy Letters and is a Senior Editorial Board Member of Materials Today. Clarivate lists him as a Highly Cited Researcher for six times in a row since 2018. He was awarded the Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz prize by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Early Career Prize in Semiconductors by IUPAP, and named one of the World’s 35 Innovators Under 35 by the MIT Technology Review; he is also a Fellow of the Internation Science Council. In addition, Prof. Saliba received the Kavli Foundation Early Career Lectureship in Materials Science from the Materials Research Society, the Curious Minds Award from Merck the EU-40 Materials Award from the European Materials Research Society, and the High Impact Award from the Helmholtz Association.
Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Associate Editor
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
ORCID: 0000-0002-3860-1149
Dr. Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena is an Associate Professor and the Goizueta Junior Faculty Chair in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech. He obtained his PhD degree in Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut in 2014 in the group of Prof. Alexander Agrios. He pursued two postdoctoral fellowships, one at EPFL in Switzerland and another at MIT. He joined the faculty at Georgia Tech in 2019 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2024. His group focuses on understanding the relationship between chemistry, crystallographic structures, and properties of emerging semiconducting materials for optoelectronic applications. His research program has attracted funding from the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, industry partners, and foundations, among others. His work has been cited over 38,000 times (h-index of 68) making him a top cited researcher as recognized every year by the Web of Science Group Highly Cited Researchers since 2019 and Nature Index Leading early career researcher in materials science (2019). Dr. Correa-Baena is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship for his contributions to the chemistry of halide perovskites.
Junwang Tang, Associate Editor
Tsinghua University, China
Professor Junwang (John) Tang is a Member of the Academy of Europe, a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow, a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Fellow of IMMM and an Honorary Fellow of CCS. He was the Director of UCL Materials Hub and Chair of Materials Chemistry and Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCL. He is currently the Founding Director of the Industrial Catalysis Center in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chair Professor of Materials Chemistry and Catalysis at Tsinghua University, China and a Visiting Professor at University College London, UK.
Tang is one of the pioneers to couple photons with phonons for small molecule activation to produce zero-carbon fuels (eg. H2O to H2, N2 to NH3) and valuable chemicals (CO2 to alcohols and CH4 to long chain hydrocarbons) as well as microwave catalysis (e.g. chemical plastic recycling), together with the investigation of the underlying charge dynamics and kinetics by state-of-the-art spectroscopic, resulting in >250 papers published in Nature Energy, Nature Catalysis, Nature Materials, Nature Sustainability, Nature Review Materials, Chemical Reviews etc. He is also Editor / Editor-in-Chief / Associate Editor of 5 journals, including Applied Catalysis B, Chinese Journal of Catalysis, and EES Solar. Prof. Tang has received many awards, the latest of which are the 2022 IChemE Oil and Gas Global Awards (Methane conversion), 2021 IChemE Andrew Medal (due to his contribution to heterogeneous catalysis), the RSC Corday-Morgan Prize 2021 (due to innovative photocatalysts discovered), 2021 Royal Society-Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship and 2021 IChemE Innovative Product Award (thanks to successful microwave technology transfer).
Yingping Zou, Associate Editor
Central South University, China
ORCID: 0000-0003-1901-7243
Yingping Zou received her Ph. D. degree from Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) in 2008. In the following years she performed her postdoctoral research at Laval University and was a visiting researcher at Stanford University. She was promoted to full professor in 2014 at Central South University (CSU). Currently her research focuses on organic small molecules/polymers for high performance optoelectronic devices. She has published more than 300 peer-review papers including Joule, Nat.Photon., Energy Environ. Sci., Adv. Mater. and J. Am. Chem. Soc.
