Peter Skabara, Deputy editor-in-chief
University of Glasgow, UK
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7319-0464
Pete Skabara graduated from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, in 1991 with a First Class Honours degree in Chemistry. He completed his PhD studies in 1994 under the supervision of Professor Martin Bryce at the University of Durham before taking up a Max-Planck Fellowship with Professor Klaus Müllen at the MPI for Polymer Research in Mainz (1994-95). His academic career began at Sheffield Hallam University in 1995, and he moved to the University of Manchester (Senior Lectureship 2000-05), before joining the University of Strathclyde where he was the James Young Chair of Chemistry and Head of Department (2010-13). In 2018 he moved from Strathclyde to his present position as the Ramsay Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. Research interests are generally in the field of organic semiconductors, which spans electronic and photonic devices and sensors, with an emphasis on synthesis and bulk properties, which are in turn driven by careful design and control of molecular architecture. His work on monodisperse, star-shaped conjugated macromolecules gained him a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. He has also held a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship and a Leverhulme/Royal Society Africa Award.
Laylay Chua, Associate editor
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Lay-Lay Chua is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore. She was trained as a chemist, and then completed her PhD in organic semiconductor devices at the University of Cambridge in 2007. She won the inaugural National University of Singapore (NUS)-Cambridge Dual-University Assistant Professorship, beginning her independent academic career at NUS in 2008. Prior to this, she had worked extensively in manufacturing in the semiconductor industry, reaching the rank of Principal Engineer at Chartered Semiconductors (1996-2000), before switching to research. She was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, New Jersey, USA (2001-2002), and Research Associate at University of Cambridge and also Research Fellow at National University of Singapore (2003-2008). Her recent research interests are in the design, synthesis and characterization of advanced organic materials, both polymer organic semiconductors and polymer−graphene hybrids, for semiconductor applications including thermoelectric generators, and nonlinear optics and battery applications.
Luis Hueso, Associate editor
CIC nanoGUNE, Spain
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7918-8047
Luis E. Hueso is currently an IKERBASQUE Research Professor and leader of the Nanodevices group at CIC nanoGUNE in San Sebastian (Spain). He obtained a PhD in Physics in Santiago de Compostela and after postdoctoral experience in Cambridge (with Neil Mathur) and in Bologna (with Alek Dediu), he worked as a lecturer at the University of Leeds before taking up his current position in 2009. His research interests lie in the fields of spintronics with molecular materials, electronic memory devices, plasmonics and nanofabrication. He is currently an ERC Starting Grant holder and participates in several EU-funded projects with a wide network of collaborators in different countries.
Malika Jeffries-El, Associate editor
Boston University, USA
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9134-4938
Malika Jeffries-EL has a background in organic chemistry and leads a research group focused on the development of organic semiconductors for use in OLEDs and OPVs. She received her masters and doctorate degrees in chemistry from The George Washington University. She then worked as a post-doctoral fellowship under the direction of Professor Richard D. McCullough at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2005 she joined the faculty in the Chemistry Department at Iowa State University and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2012. In 2016 she joined the department of chemistry and the division of materials science and engineering at Boston University.
Unyong Jeong, Associate editor
POSTECH, South Korea
Unyong Jeong received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in Korea (1998). He received a M.A. degree (2000) and a Ph.D. degree (2003) on polymer physics in the same department. He joined Younan Xia’s group as a postdoctoral fellow to study the synthesis and applications of inorganic nanostructured materials. Then, he joined in Yonsei University in Korea (2006) and he moved to Dept. Materials Science and Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in 2015. He is a young Se-Ah distinguished professor in POSTECH and a member of Korea academy of science and technology. His research aims to understand the mechanical electrical properties of conductive materials and to fabricate flexible stretchable electronic devices for the uses in healthcare and electronic skin for robots. His work also includes solution-based synthesis of nanomaterials and their applications.
Martyn McLachlan, Associate editor
Imperial College London, UK
Dr Martyn McLachlan is a Reader (Associate Professor) and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Materials, Imperial College London. Previously he held a Royal Academy of Engineering/EPRSC Research Fellowship (2007-2012) at the same institute. His research interests focus on the development of solution processed interlayer and electrode materials for photovoltaic and light emitting devices. Of particular interest to him are the correlation of processing-structure-performance relationships of solution processed organic, inorganic and hybrid devices and the characterisation of their surfaces and buried interfaces. His research is aimed at the integration of the materials and techniques developed into large volume manufacturing of plastic electronics.
Neil Robertson, Associate editor
University of Edinburgh, UK
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2461-8799
Neil Robertson graduated from the University of Edinburgh for his BSc and PhD degrees, and then worked in the Freie Universität Berlin, University of Wales Bangor and Imperial College London before returning to Edinburgh where he has remained since 2001. His research is focused on the design, synthesis, characterisation and application of new molecules for electronic materials, including dye-sensitised and perovskite solar cells, and multifunctional molecular semiconductors incorporating optical and magnetic properties. He has acted as Deputy Director of the Supergen Excitonic Solar Cells Consortium (UK) and Director of the Scottish Institute for Solar Energy Research and Energy Technology Partnership. He is a Fellow of the UK higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has initiated the Solar Spark project promoting low-cost solar energy to the wider public, which now links into Royal Society of Chemistry "Learn Chemistry".
Federico Rosei, Associate editor
National Institute of Scientific Research, University of Quebec, Canada
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8479-6955
Federico Rosei has held the Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Organic and Inorganic Materials since 2003. He is Professor and Director of Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Université du Québec, Varennes (QC) Canada. Since January 2014 he holds the UNESCO Chair in Materials and Technologies for Energy Conversion, Saving and Storage. He received MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1996 and 2001, respectively.
Natalie Stingelin, Associate editor
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1414-4545
Natalie Stingelin is a Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, having recently transferred from Imperial College London, where she conducts research in the broad area of organic functional materials, including organic electronics, multifunctional inorganic/organic hybrids and smart, advanced optical systems based on organic matter. She has more than 140 papers and has 6 issued patent. She received an ERC Young Investigator Award in 2011, the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining's Rosenhain Medal and Prize (2014) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) Award for Visiting Scientists (2015).
Wai-Yeung Wong, Associate editor
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9949-7525
Wai-Yeung Wong (Raymond) received his BSc and PhD from the University of Hong Kong in 1992 and 1995, respectively. After his postdoctoral work at TexasA&MUniversity in 1996 with Professor F. Albert Cotton, he worked for Professors The Lord Lewis (FRS) and Paul R. Raithby at the University of Cambridge in 1997. He worked in Hong KongBaptistUniversity from 1998 to 2016 and is currently a Chair Professor in Chemical Technology at the Department of Applied Biology & Chemical Technology of the Hong KongPolytechnicUniversity. His research mainly focuses on synthetic inorganic/organometallic chemistry and materials chemistry, with special emphasis on developing metal-based molecular materials with energy functions and photofunctional/magnetic properties. Wai-Yeung is internationally renowned for his research in metallopolymers and metallo-organic molecules for various optoelectronic applications. He was the recipient of the Chemistry of the Transition Metals Award by Royal Society of Chemistry in 2010, and won the FACS Distinguished Young Chemist Award in 2011, the Distinguished Lectureship Award from The Chemical Society of Japan in 2012, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation in 2012, State Natural Science Award in China in 2013 and Japanese Photochemistry Association Lectureship Award for Asian and Oceanian Photochemist in 2014. He is currently the Chairman of Hong Kong Chemical Society and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Yadong Yin, Associate editor
University of California, Riverside, USA
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0218-3042
Yadong Yin received his Masters (1998) in Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China. From 1999 to 2002, he was a graduate student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, under the guidance of Prof. Younan Xia. In 2003, he became a postdoctoral fellow at Professor Paul Alivisatos' group at the University of California, Berkeley. Soon after he joined the Molecular Foundry at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as initially a postdoctoral fellow and then a staff scientist. Since 2006, he has been a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside. His research interest focuses on the synthesis, self-assembly, and functionalization of nanostructured materials for catalytic, analytical, energy, and photonic applications. Yadong has received a number of national awards, including Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, DuPont Young Professor Grant, 3M Nontenured Faculty Grant, the Faculty Early Career Development award from the National Science Foundation, and the Distinguished Junior Faculty Award from the Chinese-American Chemistry Professor Association.
Xiaowei Zhan, Associate editor
Peking University, China
Xiaowei Zhan obtained a PhD degree in chemistry from Zhejiang University in 1998. Xiaowei worked at the University of Arizona and Georgia Institute of Technology from 2002 to 2006 as a Research Associate and Research Scientist. He has been a full Professor at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2006. In 2012, he moved to Peking University. His research interests are in the development of organic and polymeric materials for organic electronics and photonics, such as transistors and solar cells. Xiaowei is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Ni Zhao, Associate editor
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Ni Zhao is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D degree in Physics from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2008. From 2008-2010 she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her recent research interests include optoelectronic devices, wearable biomedical devices and optical spectroscopy.
