Javier Pérez-Ramírez, Chair
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
ORCiD 0000-0002-5805-7355
Javier Pérez-Ramírez, FRSC, is a Full Professor of Catalysis Engineering at ETH Zurich. He studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Alicante and received his PhD degree at the Delft University of Technology. His research pursues the discovery and understanding of catalytic materials and process concepts enabling the transition towards sustainable chemical and energy production.
He is a Highly Cited Researcher in the field of chemistry and his work has been recognized by several awards, most recently the Paul H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis for the North American Catalysis Society in 2019, the EFCATS Robert K. Grasselli Award for Catalysis in 2021, and the Horizon Prize John Jeyes Award, Royal Society of Chemistry in 2022. He founded and currently directs NCCR Catalysis (www.nccr-catalysis.ch), a Swiss Centre of Competence in Research devoted to the development of carbon-neutral chemicals across the whole value chain through catalytic processes.
Asim Bhaumik, Associate Editor
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India
ORCiD 0000-0002-4907-7418
Asim Bhaumik received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India in 1997. After completing his Ph.D. degree he moved to The University of Tokyo, Japan as a JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow from 1997-1999. Then during 1999-2001 he was an Associate Researcher at Toyota Central R & D Labs., Inc. Nagoya, Japan.
After that, he joined the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India, where he is currently working as a Senior Professor. He has published over 525 original research articles and 16 patents with over 28000 citations. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). His research interests are: exploring novel organic, inorganic and organic-inorganic hybrid porous materials for the energy and environmental applications, developing heterogeneous catalysts for CO2 fixation reactions into fuels and fine chemicals, and green hydrogen.
Deborah Crawford, Associate Editor
University of Birmingham, UK
ORCiD 0000-0003-2579-7987
Deborah Crawford is an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing at the University of Birmingham, with a joint affiliation in the School of Chemistry and the School of Chemical Engineering. She earned her Ph.D. from Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) in 2015, focusing on gold(I) diphosphine complexes as optical sensors. Following this, she was seconded to MOF Technologies, where she explored the continuous, solvent-free synthesis of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) using twin-screw extrusion (TSE). She then continued at QUB to further investigate mechanochemical scale-up via TSE and contribute to the development of Type 2 Porous Liquids. Her research is focused on advancing mechanochemical synthesis, either by developing new methodologies or adapting existing technologies. Her work spans a broad range of materials, from fine chemicals to supramolecular structures, with a strong focus on sustainable and scalable manufacturing.
Aiwen Lei, Associate Editor
College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, The Institute for Advanced Studies, Wuhan University, P. R. China
ORCiD 0000-0001-8417-3061
Aiwen Lei received his PhD degree in chemistry from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry in 2000 in the group of Prof. Xiyan Lu. In 2000 he moved as a postdoc to Pennsylvania State University and the group of Prof. Xumu Zhang, where he worked on asymmetric catalysis. This was followed by a second postdoctoral position in 2003 at Stanford University under the guidance of Prof. James P. Collman, where he worked on porphyrin-catalysed asymmetric epoxidation.
In 2005 he became a Professor of Organic Chemistry at the College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University. In 2015 he was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
He is currently serving as an Associate Dean of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) at Wuhan University. He features on the Clarivate 2022 Highly Cited List. His main research interests concern the development of oxidative coupling reactions, especially involving oxygen as the terminal oxidant and mechanistic studies for an in-depth understanding of chemical reactions.
Jean-Philippe Tessonnier, Associate Editor
Iowa State University, USA
ORCiD 0000-0001-9035-634X
Jean-Philippe Tessonnier is the Richard C. Seagrave Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering at Iowa State University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Prof. Tessonnier earned his Ph.D. from the University of Strasbourg, France, before joining the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Germany, where he worked as a postdoctoral researcher under the guidance of Prof. Robert Schlögl. He later moved to the University of Delaware, USA, to join Prof. Mark Barteau’s group and started his independent career at Iowa State in 2012. His research interests are at the intersection of heterogeneous catalysis, electrocatalysis, and organic electrosynthesis. His group specializes in innovative technologies that streamline biocatalysis and electrocatalysis for the distributed manufacturing of chemicals and sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) using renewable carbon and energy resources.
Keiichi Tomishige, Associate Editor
Tohoku University, Japan
ORCiD 0000-0003-1264-8560
Keiichi Tomishige received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from Graduate School of Science, Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo. During his Ph.D. course in 1994, he moved to Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo as a research associate. In 1998, he became a lecturer, and then he moved to Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba as a lecturer in 2001.
Since 2004 he has been an associate professor, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba. Since 2010, he is a professor, School of Engineering, Tohoku University. His research interests are the development of heterogeneous catalysts for 1) production of biomass-derived chemicals, 2) direct synthesis of organic carbonates from CO2 and alcohols, and 3) steam reforming of biomass tar.
Luigi Vaccaro, Associate Editor
University of Perugia, Italy
Luigi Vaccaro is a Full Professor at the University of Perugia, where he leads the Green S.O.C. group. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), and before joining Green Chemistry, he was an Associate Editor for RSC Advances (2015-2024). His recognitions include the Europa Medal from the Society of Chemical Industry – London (2001), the ADP Award from Merck's Chemistry Council for "Creative work in organic chemistry" (2006 and 2007), the G. Ciamician Medal of the Società Chimica Italiana (2007), the Lady Davis (2018) Visiting Professorship, the Pino Medal from the Organic and Industrial Divisions of the Italian Chemical Society (2023). His research is aimed at developing different aspects of chemistry to define sustainable and optimized chemical processes, combining the use of safer organic solvents, heterogeneous catalysis, and continuous-flow technology.
Zhenzhen Yang, Associate Editor
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
ORCiD 0000-0002-0233-4747
Dr. Zhenzhen Yang is a staff scientist in the Chemical Sciences Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She earned her Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Nankai University in 2013. Then she worked at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences for five years (2013-2018) as an assistant/associate professor. Afterwards, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tennessee Knoxville (2018-2020). Her research focuses on the development of functionalized ionic liquids, porous organic networks, membranes, and inorganic scaffolds towards gas separation, energy storage applications, catalyst design, synthesis towards CO2 utilization, hydrogenation/dehydrogenation procedures, and plastic upcycling.
André Bardow
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
André Bardow, FRSC, is a Full Professor of Energy & Process Systems Engineering at ETH Zurich. Previously, he was a professor and head of the Institute of Technical Thermodynamics at RWTH Aachen University (2010-2020) and founding director (part-time) of the Institute for Energy and Climate Research (IEK-10) at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany (2018-2023). He holds a Ph.D. degree from RWTH Aachen University. André chairs the Technical Committee for Thermodynamics of VDI – The Association of German Engineers. Among the recognitions he has received are the Recent Innovative Contribution Award of the CAPE-Working Party of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE), the PSE Model-Based Innovation (MBI) Prize by Process Systems Enterprise, the Covestro Science Award and the Arnold-Eucken-Award of VDI. His research takes sustainable energy and chemicals development from the molecular level to process design and life-cycle assessment for the whole industry.
Jing He
Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
Jing He is a Professor at the College of Chemistry at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology. She has been engaged in heterogeneous catalysis and catalytic engineering with a view for the catalytic valorisation of biomass, confined catalysis for asymmetric synthesis, and photo-assisted catalysis for CO2 and/or CH4 conversion. She holds a prestigious position as one of the four Vice-Chairs of the Green Chemistry Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society.
Arjan W. Kleij
Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Spain
ORCiD 0000-0002-7402-4764
Arjan W. Kleij received his MSc (1996) and PhD (2000, with honors) from the University of Utrecht (NL) working on recyclable dendrimer- and polymer-supported homogeneous catalysts. In 2000, he moved to industry and worked for more than 3 years (in total) first at Avantium in its pharmaceutical branch, and later on at Hexion as a research scientist.
In the period 2002-2005, he was a postdoc at the UAM in Madrid (Spain), and subsequently at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands). In 2006, he moved to the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) and became Group Leader, and was promoted to ICREA Professor in 2011.
Arjan's interests span the areas of chemo- and stereo-selective organic synthesis, the development of engineering biopolymers and catalytic renewable carbon valorization. He has (co)authored around 248 papers and 7 patent applications with >19000 citations (h-index 74). He is the recipient of a NWO Talent Fellowship, was named an ICREA junior fellow (2006) and FRSC (2021), and received the RSEQ Scientific Excellence Award (2020), the SCQ Scientific Excellence Award (2023), and the European Sustainable Chemistry Award (2023). Since 2024, he is an executive management member of the Green Chemistry Division (GEQV) of the Spanish Chemical Society (RSEQ).
Jean-Paul Lange
University of Twente and Shell Projects & Technology, The Netherlands
Jean-Paul Lange is the senior Principal Science Expert at Shell Projects & Technology in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he has been exploring novel catalytic processes for producing fuels and chemicals from natural gas and oil and, for more than twenty years also from biomass and plastic wastes.
His research embraces heterogeneous catalysis, chemical engineering, conceptual process design, manufacturing economics and technology strategy.
Jean-Paul Lange is also a Professor in Chemical Biorefining at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, where he is investigating thermo-chemical and -catalytic routes to convert biomass to fuels and chemicals and to recycle plastic wastes.
Before joining Shell, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Lehigh University in Bethlehem (Pennsylvania, USA), got his PhD at the Fritz-Haber Institute (Max Planck Society) in Berlin (Germany) and graduated from the University of Namur (Belgium).
Jean-Paul Lange has co-authored>120 patent series >80 scientific publications, and 10 book chapters and is co-editor of one scientific book.
He also contributes to public science through various advisory boards in the Netherlands, Europe for the CEFIC and the European Commission.
Serenella Sala
European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy
Serenella has been the Head of Unit of the Land Resources and Supply Chain Assessments Unit within the Sustainable Resource Directorate at the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) since 2010.
Between 2001 and 2010, Serenella was the coordinator of the Research Unit on Sustainable Development (GRISS) at the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Milano Bicocca, where she worked as a scientific project leader for several environmental projects supporting sustainability assessment in both the private and public sector. She actively promoted public and private partnerships on eco-innovation and resource efficiency and contributed to the harmonisation of methods and models for life cycle impact assessment at the international level.
An environmental scientist by background, with a PhD in applied ecology, her research activities support European policies and focus on assessing sustainability by applying methodologies and models for sustainable development, integrated environmental assessment, life cycle assessment, and risk assessment. The focus is on the eco-innovation of processes and products as well as resource efficiency.
Laurel L. Schafer
The University of British Columbia, Canada
Dr. Laurel L. Schafer has received her BSc from the University of Guelph and her PhD from the University of Victoria. She then went on to the University of California-Berkley to complete an NSERC post-doctoral fellowship with Prof. T. D. Tilley. In 2001, she joined the University of British Columbia in Vancouver where she is now a professor and a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Catalyst Development. The Schafer group has developed a family of N,O-chelated early transition metal complexes for atom-economic catalysis to prepare amines, heterocycles, and amine-containing polymers. For this work Laurel has received numerous awards including a Schlenk Lecture Award from the University of Tübingen (2021), a CSC Award, a Humboldt Award, a Killam Research Fellowship and a Killam Award for Graduate Student Mentorship.
Charlotte Williams
University of Oxford, UK
Charlotte K. Williams OBE FRS is a professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Associate Head of Department (Research) in Oxford Chemistry. She is also an EPSRC Established Career Research Fellow.
She heads up a research group investigating polymerization catalysis and polymer chemistry, focusing on improving polymer sustainability. Her work involves close collaboration with scientists and engineers in academic and industrial laboratories.
Earlier in her career, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge University (2002-2003), working with Andrew Holmes and Richard Friend (Organometallic polymers for electronics), and at the University of Minnesota (2001-2002) working with Bill Tolman and Marc Hillmyer (zinc catalysts for lactide polymerization). She obtained her BSc and PhD from Imperial College London, the latter supervised by Vernon Gibson and Nick Long on ethene polymerization catalysis.
In 2011, Charlotte founded econic technologies which sells catalysts and processes facilitating carbon dioxide utilization. From 2003-2016, she was an academic in the Chemistry Department at Imperial College London, serving as Head of Inorganic Chemistry teaching and Head of Materials Chemistry.
Her work has been recognised by prizes and awards including the Royal Society Leverhulme Medal (2022), the RSC Tilden Medal (2021) an OBE from Queen Elizabeth II for Services to Chemistry (2020), Macro Group UK Medal (2019), The Dechema Otto Roelen Medal (2018), The UK Catalysis Hub Sir John Meurig Thomas Medal (2017), the Royal Society of Chemistry Corday Morgan Medal (2016) and the Women in Science and Engineering Tech-Start Up Award (2015).