Jeroen Cornelissen, Editor-in-chief
University of Twente, The Netherlands
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-5043
Jeroen Cornelissen is a Professor in Biomolecular Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, Enschede, and the Netherlands. He studied chemistry in The Netherlands with a minor in polymer chemistry carried out at the Eindhoven University of Technology with Professor E.W. Meijer and a major in Supramolecular Chemistry and Catalysis at the University of Nijmegen with Professor R.J.M. Nolte. He received his PhD (cum laude) from the University of Nijmegen in 2001. After postdoctoral work at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, USA. he returned to Nijmegen, where he was appointed as an Assistant Professor until 2009. His current research interests are in well-defined polymer architectures, hybrid systems of synthetic macromolecules and biopolymers and the use of viruses as building blocks in functional materials.
Anders Hagfeldt, Editor-in-chief
Uppsala University, Sweden
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6725-8856
Anders Hagfeldt is Professor in Physical Chemistry at Uppsala University, Sweden. He obtained his Ph.D. at Uppsala University, Sweden, in 1993 and was a post-doc with Prof. Michael Grätzel at EPFL, Switzerland. His research focuses on dye-sensitized solar cells, perovskite solar cells and solar fuels. He was on the list of the top 100 material scientists of the past decade by Times Higher Education (2010).
In 2014-2017 he was on the list of Thomson Reuter’s Highly Cited Researchers. He received the Nature Award for Mentoring in Science, 2012, and the Björkénska Prize, Uppsala University, 2016. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in Stockholm.
He is a visiting professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Honorary Doctor of University Paris Diderot. He has published (October 2017) more than 430 scientific papers that have received over 43,000 citations (h-index of 105).
Natalie Stingelin, Editor-in-chief
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1414-4545
Website: https://stingelin-lab.gatech.edu/#home
Natalie Stingelin (Stutzmann) is a Full Professor of Materials Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology, with prior positions at Imperial College London; the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Queen Mary University of London, the Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven; and ETH Zürich. She is the Director of the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE) at Georgia Tech and Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Society of Chemistry Journal, the ‘Journal of Materials Chemistry C’. She has been elected to the class of 2019 MRS Fellows, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry since 2012. She was awarded, among other things, a Chaire Internationale Associée by the Excellence Initiative of the Université de Bordeaux in 2016, the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining's Rosenhain Medal and Prize in 2014, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) Award for Visiting Scientists in 2015. While at Imperial College, she was recipient of a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant, as well as an ERC Proof of Concept grant. She was, among others, the Chair of the 2016 Gordon Conference on 'Electronic Processes in Organic Materials' and the Zing conference on ‘Organic Semiconductors’. In 2018, she organized the 14th edition of the International Conference of Organic Electronics (ICOE). She has published >180 papers in the area of organic electronics & photonics, bioelectronics, physical chemistry of organic functional materials, and smart inorganic/organic hybrid systems.
Viola Birss, Associate editor
University of Calgary, Canada
Viola Birss is a Professor of Chemistry and has held a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Fuel Cells and Related Clean Energy Systems at the University of Calgary from 2004-2018. Dr. Birss was one of the founders and then leader of both the Western Canada Fuel Cell Initiative and the pan-Canadian Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Canada (SOFCC) organization, and, more recently, was the Scientific Co-Director of the SOFCC NSERC Strategic Research Network. She is currently the Scientific Director of the CAESR-Tech (Calgary Advanced Energy Storage and Conversion Research Technologies) cluster at the University of Calgary.
Dr. Birss has been the recipient of numerous prestigious scientific awards (most recently the David C. Grahame Award from the ECS), is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Society for Chemistry and the Electrochemical Society, and is the author of over 250 refereed scientific publications.
Her research has been focused on better understanding fuel cell reaction mechanisms, as well as on improving the performance and lifetime of low temperature PEM fuel cells through the development of paradigm-shifting nanoporous carbon scaffold materials, for use as both catalyst and microporous layers.
Her work in the high temperature SOFC/SOEC area has included the development of highly active mixed conducting perovskite catalysts that can be used at both the anode and cathode to split water and convert CO2 to useful products. Dr. Birss is also engaged in the development of core@shell nanoparticles, protective coatings and other novel strategies to combat the corrosion of metals, electrochemical biosensors, and a range of structurally ordered nanomaterials for a variety of clean energy/environment applications.
Jiang Chang, Associate editor
Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, China
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1462-6541
Jiang Chang is a Professor at the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Fellow of International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE), Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, (FRSC) and Fellow of American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He earned his PhD in 1991 in Chemistry from the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany and worked as a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Medical University of Luebeck in Germany. Since 2000 Jiang has been a Professor and Director of the Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Research Center at the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, and Adjunct Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Biomedical Engineering/Med-X Research Institute. Jiang is the Vice President of the Interdisciplinary Research Society for Bone and Joint Injectable Biomaterials. His research focuses on bioactive materials for tissue regeneration and tissue engineering and mechanisms of cell-biomaterial interaction.
Guoping Chen, Associate editor
National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6753-3678
Guoping Chen received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 1997 majoring in Biomaterials and did postdoctoral research until 2000. He became researcher in 2000 and senior researcher in 2003 at Tissue Engineering Research Center, National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan. He moved to Biomaterials Center, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) as senior researcher in 2004 and was group leader from January 2007 to March 2011. He was principal investigator and unit director of Tissue Regeneration Materials Unit, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), NIMS from April 2011 to March 2015. Since April 2015, he has been principal investigator and field coordinator of Nano-Life Field, unit director of Tissue Regeneration Materials Unit and Biomaterials Unit, MANA, NIMS. He is also Professor of Joint Doctoral Program in Materials Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Science, University of Tsukuba and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. His current research interests include biomaterials, scaffolds, biomimetic matrices, micro-patterning, surface modification, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and nanomedicine. He has authored more than 230 publications and holds 14 patents. He has received several awards such as Young Scientist Award from the Japanese Society for Biomaterials in 2001, Original Award from the Japanese Society of Artificial Organs in 2002, Tsukuba Award of Chemical and Bio-Technology in 2005, Best Research and Collaboration Award in 2010 and Best Presentation Award in 2012 from the Science Academy of Tsukuba.
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.
Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez, Associate editor
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Dr. Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and holds the L.B. (Preach) Meaders Professorship in Engineering. She received a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and Ph.D. in Macromolecular Science and Engineering from Case Western Reserve University under the guidance of Professors Anne Hiltner and Jim Anderson. She then completed a UT-TORCH Postdoctoral Fellowship with Professor Tony Mikos at Rice University with a focus in orthopaedic tissue engineering. Dr. Cosgriff-Hernandez joined the faculty of at Texas A&M University as an Assistant Professor in 2007 and the University of Texas at Austin in 2017. Her laboratory specializes in the synthesis of hybrid biomaterials with targeted integrin interactions and scaffold fabrication strategies.
Gemma-Louise Davies, Associate editor
University College London, UK
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1831-0627
Dr Gemma-Louise graduated from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) with a Degree in Natural Sciences (Mod. Chemistry) and remained there to undertake a PhD in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry (awarded in 2011). Following a brief industry-supported Postdoctoral Fellowship in Trinity College Dublin, Gemma-Louise moved to the University of Oxford as a Postdoctoral Research Associate before she was awarded a Global Research Fellowship at the University of Warwick in 2013. She joined the Department of Chemistry at University College London as Lecturer in Materials Chemistry and Director of the MSc in Materials for Energy and the Environment in July 2017. Gemma-Louise’s interdisciplinary research focusses on the design and development of nanostructured materials for medical imaging, diagnostic and healthcare applications, industrial application and also investigates the role and fate of nanomaterials in the environment.
Goutam De, Associate editor
Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0271-1634
Dr Goutam De received his doctorate from Jadavpur University based on his work done in Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science at Kolkata. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Kanazawa University (Japan), PASTIS-CNRSM (Italy), and Sandia National Lab/Univ. of New Mexico (USA).
He is recipient of several awards and recognitions, namely, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship, Raman Research Fellowship, MRSI and CRSI Medals, NRDC Meritorious Invention Award, MRSI-ICSC Superconductivity & Materials Science Annual Prize, National Research Award in Nano Science & Technology from DST, etc.
Dr De is a Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology and the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). Dr De's research interests include functional nanocomposite coatings of technological importance, ordered mesoporous films and electrospun fibers, sol-gel silica glass shapes, AR cum self-cleaning coatings, graphene-based nanocomposites, and materials for catalysis/photocatalysis.
So far, he has published 160 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and filed nine patents. He was the Chief Scientist & Head Nano-Structured Materials Division, CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, and Visiting Scientist at INST, Mohali. Currently, Dr De is an Emeritus Professor at S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata.
Renaud Demadrille, Associate editor
CEA-Grenoble, France
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7455-5709
Homepage: http://www.symmes.fr/Pages/Renaud-Demadrille.aspx
Renaud Demadrille is a senior research fellow in the Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Grenoble (IRIG) at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in France. He received his PhD in organic chemistry in 2000 from the University of Aix-Marseille II in France where he was a fellowship of PPG Industries and Essilor International. After obtaining PhD, he worked as junior research engineer in the R&D center of an international chemical company. Then he joined in 2002 the CEA as a postdoctoral fellow to develop semiconducting polymers for organic photovoltaics before being appointed in 2005 as a permanent researcher at CEA-Grenoble in the Fundamental Research Division. His research focuses on the synthesis and the characterization of new pi-conjugated molecules and macromolecules for organic and hybrid photovoltaics, optoelectronics and thermoelectricity. In 2018, he received the prize of "Innovation in chemistry for energy" by the French Society of Chemistry (SCF) and in 2019 he was recipient of a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant.
Mohamed Eddaoudi, Associate editor
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Mohamed Eddaoudi was born in Agadir, Morocco. He is currently Professor of Chemical Science and Associate Director of the Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia). He received his PhD in Chemistry, Université Denis Diderot (Paris VII), France. After postdoctoral research (Arizona State University, University of Michigan), he started his independent academic career as Assistant Professor, University of South Florida (2002), Associate Professor (2008), Professor (2010).
His research focuses on developing strategies, based on (super)-molecular building approaches (MBB, SBB, SBL), for rational construction of functional solid-state materials, namely MOFs. Their prospective uses include energy and environmental sustainability applications. Dr Eddaoudi's eminent contribution to the burgeoning field of MOFs is evident from his selection in 2014 as a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher.
Elizabeth von Hauff, Associate editor
VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6269-0540
Elizabeth von Hauff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the VU Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Previous to this, she held a joint appointment between the Fraunhofer Institute of Solar Energy Sytems (ISE) and the University of Freiburg, Germany. Elizabeth has a background in condensed matter physics, and her research is focussed on fundamental questions in the broader context of energy applications. Elizabeth studied Physics at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada where she received a BSc honours in 2000. In 2001 she then relocated to Germany to focus on photovoltaics. Her MSc (2001) and PhD (2005) work was at the University of Oldenburg, Germany.
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.
Yun Jeong Hwang, Associate editor
Seoul National University, South Korea
Yun Jeong Hwang received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Chemistry from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 2003 and 2005. She then moved to USA for her PhD to work with Professor Peidong Yang at University of California, Berkeley where her research focused on photoelectrochemical water splitting using semiconductor nanowires. In June 2012, she joined the clean energy research center at Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) where she started to work on electro-catalytic materials for CO2 reduction and water oxidation for a sustainable carbon cycle technology. She is currently a principal researcher of KIST and also a professor at the Energy and Environmental Department in Korea University of Science and Technology.
Her research interests focus on synthesis and surface characterization of electrocatalyst and photoelectrocatalyst materials to understand the catalytic activities, specifically electrocatalytic CO2 reduction, water electrolysis, photoelectrochemical water splitting, and solar fuel conversion reactions. She has published about 100 peer-reviewed articles in the field of catalyst materials for energy and environmental applications.
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.
Ji Jian, Associate editor
Zhejiang University, China
Professor Ji Jian is a professor at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering in Zhejiang University. He received his PhD in the chemistry and physics of polymers from Zhejiang University in 1991. His research focuses on interfacial phenomena for biomedical implant, tissue engineering and nanomedicine. He has published 320 publications and 36 patents. He received several award including the Distinguished Young Scholars Award of the National Science Foundation of China (2010), Chang Jiang Scholars by Ministry of Education (2015) and the fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry (2016). Since 2017，he has been the director of Institute of Biomedical Macromolecule in Zhejiang University.
Oana Jurchescu, Associate editor
Wake Forest University, USA
Prof. Oana Jurchescu joined the Physics department at Wake Forest University (WFU) in 2009, where she is an Associate Professor and the Associate Chair. She received her PhD in 2006 from University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD, USA (2007 – 2009). Her expertise is in charge transport in organic semiconductors, device physics, and structure-property relationships in organic and hybrid functional materials. She won the National Science Foundation CAREER award, several university-wide teaching and mentoring awards, the WFU Award for Excellence in Research and the Wake Forest Innovation award. She is a member of the executive committee of the Division of Materials Research within APS.
Kisuk Kang, Associate editor
Seoul National University, South Korea
Kisuk Kang is a professor of materials science and engineering at Seoul National University (SNU), where he received his B.Sc. He completed his Ph.D. and postdoctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology from 2008 to 2011, and moved to SNU.
Since 2013, he has been a tenured professor at SNU. His research laboratory focuses on developing new materials for batteries and electrocatalysts using combined experiments and ab initio calculations. His published works in this field have been cited more than 20,000 times, and he was selected as Highly Cited Researchers in 2018 from Clarivate Analytics. He was a recipient of several awards such as Energy and Environmental Science Lectureship Award from Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom (2012), Science Patriots Award from Ministry of Science, Korea (2017), Scientist of the Month from Ministry of Science, Korea (2017), and was selected as 100 leaders in Technology by National Academy of Engineering of Korea (2017).
Zhiqun Lin, Associate editor
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3158-9340
Dr Zhiqun Lin is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in Polymer Science and Engineering from University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2002. His research interests include functional nanocrystals (metallic, magnetic, semiconducting, ferroelectric, multiferroic, upconversion and thermoelectric), solar cells (organic/inorganic hybrid, dye-sensitized and perovskite solar cells), photocatalysis, hydrogen generation, lithium ion batteries, thermoelectrics, polymer-based nanocomposites, block copolymers, polymer blends, and conjugated polymers.
He is a recipient of Frank J. Padden Jr. Award in Polymer Physics, American Physical Society, NSF Career Award, 3 M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, and an invited participant at the National Academy of Engineering's 2010 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and Japan Society for the Promotion of Society Fellow.
Monica Lira-Cantú , Associate editor
Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Spain
Monica Lira-Cantu (Chemistry, 1992), obtained a Masters and PhD in Materials Science at the Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (ICMAB) & The Autonomous University of Barcelona (1995/1997) and completed her postdoctoral work under contract with the company Schneider Electric/ICMAB (1998). From 1999 to 2001 she worked as a permanent Staff Chemist (promoted to Senior Researcher in 2000) at ExxonMobil Research & Engineering (formerly Mobil Technology Co) in New Jersey, USA. She returned to Spain in 2002. She obtained an I3P contract and a Ramon and Cajal contract in 2003 and 2004, respectively. She became a tenured track scientist in 2007 and was promoted to Scientific Researcher in 2017 by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, Spain). She has received various awards and fellowships as a visiting scientist to the following laboratories: University of Oslo, Norway (2003), Riso National Laboratory, Denmark (2004/2005), the Center for Advanced Science and Innovation, Japan (2006) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland (2015). She was visiting professor at EPFL for the years 2016-2018. Since 2007, Monica Lira-Cantu has been Group Leader of the Nanostructured Materials for Photovoltaic Energy Group at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, ICN2 (www.icn2.cat) in Barcelona. Her research interests are the synthesis and application of nanostructured materials for Next-generation Thin Film Solar Cells: Dye Sensitized (DSSC), Organic (OSC), All-oxide (AOSC) and Halide Perovskite Solar Cells (PSC).
Shaoqin Liu, Associate editor
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Professor Shaoqin Liu received her Bachelor degree and Ph. D degree from Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric Engineering in 1994 and from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (Chinese Academy of Science) in 1999, respectively. She started her chemistry research career under Professor Shaojun Dong group at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry to develop polyoxometalates-based thin film. After her Ph. D degree, she moved to Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interface as Humboldt Fellow. She developed polyoxometalates-based functional materials. In 2004, she joined National Research Council of Canada as NESRC fellow to study direct methanol fuel cells. In 2007, she started her academic career as a Full Professor in Harbin Institute of Technology. Her current research interests include preparation of nanostructured materials and their applications in energy, biosensing and cancer therapy.
David Lou, Associate editor
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5557-4437
Dr David Lou received his BEng (1st class honors) (2002) and MEng (2004) degrees from the National University of Singapore. He obtained his PhD degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University in 2008. Right after graduation, he joined Nanyang Technological University (NTU) as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor since September 2013. He was promoted to Full Professor since September 2015. He has published about 220 papers with a total ISI citation of >23,800, and an H-index of 87 as of February 2016. His main research interest is on designed synthesis of nanostructured materials for electrochemical energy conversion and storage.
Yi-Chun Lu, Associate editor
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1607-1615
Dr. Yi-Chun Lu received her B.S. degree in Materials Science & Engineering from National Tsing Hua University in 2007 and Ph.D. degree in Materials Science & Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012. After her graduate study, she worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the Technische Universität München (2012-2013). She joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2013 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018.
Dr. Lu's research interest centers on developing fundamental understandings and material design principles for clean energy storage and conversion. In particular, her research group focuses on electrode and electrolyte design for high-energy metal-air and metal-sulfur batteries; redox-active components and solution chemistry for redox-flow batteries; mechanistic understanding of interfacial phenomena governing electrochemical energy conversion and storage processes.
Dr. Lu is the Founding Member of Young Academy of Science of Hong Kong and was the recipient of the Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council Early Career Award (2014), Young Researchers Award (2016), University Education Award (2016) and United College Early Career Research Excellence Award (2018).
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.
Kasper Moth-Poulsen, Associate editor
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Kasper Moth-Poulsen studied organic chemistry at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, where he obtained the Cand. Scient. (2003) and Ph.D. (2007) degrees under supervision of Prof. Thomas Bjørnholm. In 2009, he continued his career abroad as a post doctoral scholar at U.C. Berkeley, with Professors Rachel Segalman and Peter Vollhardt. In 2011 KMP joined Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, as an Assistant Professor. In 2014 he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017 to Professor and in 2019 Full Professor in nanomaterials chemistry. He has received several prestigious grants and awards, including the Arnbergska Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, and a Starting grant from the European Research Council (ERC). His research is focusing on organic materials for energy storage, synthesis of nanoparticles and self-assembly.
Frank Osterloh, Associate editor
University of California, Davis, USA
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9288-3407
Frank Osterloh is an inorganic chemist working on nanostructured solar energy conversion devices. He received MA and PhD degrees in chemistry in 1994 and 1997 from the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany, after working under the guidance of the late Professor Siegfried Pohl. He then completed postdoctoral training at Harvard University with Professor Richard H. Holm, after which he joined the faculty at the Chemistry Department at the University of California, Davis, in 2000.
Frank Osterloh's current research interests are centered on the chemical, physical, and photochemical properties of inorganic nanomaterials and on the development of spectroscopic methods to probe photochemical charge separation on the nanoscale. His work has been recognized with the 2010 Inorganic Nanoscience Award of the American Chemical Society and with the 2014 Richard A. Glenn Award of the ACS Division of Fuel Chemistry.
Marc in het Panhuis, Associate editor
University of Wollongong, Australia
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3259-9295
Marc in het Panhuis is a Professor of Materials Science, the Associate Dean International for the Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, Head of the Soft Materials Group, and Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science at the University of Wollongong in Australia. He obtained his Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Twente (the Netherlands), his PhD in Physics from The University of Dublin, Trinity College (Ireland) and carried out post-doctoral research in Chemistry at UMIST (now University of Manchester, UK). His research laboratories are located in the Australian Institute for Innovative Materials and his activities are focused on tough hydrogels, their mechanical (including self-healing/self-recovery) and electrical characterization, interactions with living cells and their processing using Additive Manufacturing (3D/4D printing) for applications in tissue engineering, edible electronics and soft robotics.
Shizhang Qiao, Associate editor
University of Adelaide, Australia
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4568-8422
Professor Qiao is a Chair at the School of Chemical Engineering of the University of Adelaide. His research expertise is in nanomaterials and nanotechnologies for new energy applications (electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, batteries, fule cell, supercapacitors). He has co-authored more than 280 papers in refereed journals, including Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Energy, Nature Communications, Angew Chem Int Ed, J. Am. Chem. Soc, and Advanced Materials (over 19000 citation times, h-index: 73).
In recognition of his achievements in research, he was honoured with a prestigious ExxonMobil Award (2016), ARC Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award (DORA, 2013), and an Emerging Researcher Award (2013, ENFL Division of the American Chemical Society).
Professor Qiao is currently appointed to Australian Research Council College of Experts. He is a Fellow of Royal Australian Chemical Institute Chartered Chemist (FRACI CChem) and a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). Professor Qiao is a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher.
Xiaogang Qu, Associate editor
Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2868-3205
Xiaogang Qu received his PhD from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1995 with CAS President's Award. He moved to the USA afterwards and worked with Professor J. B. Chaires at the Mississippi Medical Center and Nobel Laureate Professor Ahmed. H. Zewail at the California Institute of Technology. Since late 2002, he is a professor at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, CAS. From 12/2006 to 05/2007, he visited the group of Nobel Laureate Professor Alan J. Heeger at the UCSB. His current research is focused on ligand-nucleic acids or related protein interactions, and bio-functional materials for advanced medical technology.
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.
Jennifer Rupp, Associate editor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Prof. Jennifer Rupp is the Thomas Lord Associate Professor of Electrochemical Materials at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Prior she is a non-tenure track assistant professor at ETH Zurich Switzerland where she was holding two prestigious externally funded career grants, namely an ERC Starting Grant (SNSF) and Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) professorship.
She previously was affiliated as a visiting and senior scientist at the MIT (2012-2011), the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba Japan (2011), and was working as a postdoc at ETH Zurich (2010-2006). Rupp team`s current research interests are on solid state material design and tuning of structure-property relations for novel energy and information devices and operation schemes. This ranges from alternative energy storage via solid state batteries, solar-to-synthetic fuel conversion or novel types of neuromorphic memories and computing logic entities for data storage and transfer beyond transistors and new sensing functions to track chemicals in the environment. Here, her team goes the whole way from material design, novel processing techniques to make ceramics, cermets or glassy-type ceramic structures up to novel device prototypes, their operation and characteristics.
She has published more then 84 papers, holds 11 patents, and enjoys to be active discussing material tech trends on the theme of energy with the public, economists and policy makers being a frequent speaker and panel member of the World Economic Forum.
Rupp and team received several honors and awards such as Displaying Future Awards by the company Merck KGaA 2018 for a glucose converting fuel cell chip, BASF and Volkswagen Science Award 2017 for battery research, "Top 40 international scientist under the age of 40" by World Economic Forum 2015, Spark Award for the most innovative and economically important invention of the year 2014 at ETH Zurich, Kepler award “new materials in energy technology” by the European Academy of Science 2012 or Young Scientist Award by the Solid State Ionic Society. She gave keynote lectures at Royal Society UK 2018, Nature Energy conference 2016, Gordon Research lecture 2014 and many others, also she presented on battery and energy technologies at the World Economic Forum 2017.
Stephen Skinner, Associate editor
Imperial College London, UK
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5446-2647
Stephen Skinner has research interests in the area of materials for new energy technologies and is primarily concerned with the chemical and physical properties of solid oxide electrochemical cells, including fuel cells, electrolysers, sensors and permeation membranes. He has extensive experience of the use of in-situ neutron and synchrotron facilities to undertake high temperature characterisation of new materials, and in relating those data to electrochemical properties of cell components.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining, a Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry and also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Stephen is a member of The Electrochemical Society, Materials Research Society and the American Ceramic Society. He is a Chartered Chemist and Chartered Scientist. Stephen also leads the Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Charaterisation of Materials at Imperial College London.
Magdalena Titirici, Associate editor
Imperial College London, UK
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0773-2100
Magdalena Titirici received her Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the University of Bucharest in 2000. She then moved to Germany for her PhD to work with Professor Klaus Unger and Borje Sellergren in the field of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers at the University of Mainz and later on at the University of Dortmund where she graduated in 2005.
In April 2005, she joined the group of Professor Markus Antonietti at the Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam for her postdoctoral studies, where she began her research on sustainable carbon materials. In October 2006, she become a group leader at the same research institute leading a group of about 10 young researchers working on Sustainable Carbon Materials for Renewable Energy Applications. Magda received her Habilitation from the University of Potsdam in 2013.
In 2013 she moved to London to take up the position of Associate Professor in Materials Science at Queen Mary University of London. She was promoted to a full Professor in Sustainable Materials Chemistry in 2014. She is also the Director of Research for the Centre for Functional Nanomaterials.
Her current research focuses on the synthesis and characterization of sustainable materials for energy applications. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the author of around >100 publications in the field of sustainable materials and green nanochemistry.
Miriam Unterlass, Associate editor
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0494-7384
Miriam M. Unterlass studied chemistry, materials science and chemical engineering in Würzburg, Southampton and Lyon. Between 2009 and 2011 she worked on her PhD thesis at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam-Golm, with Prof. Markus Antonietti. She then worked as a postdoc with Prof. Ludwik Leibler at the ESPCI in Paris.
In December 2012, she established her research group `Advanced Organic Materials’ at the Institute of Materials Chemistry of the Technische Universität Wien. In September 2018, Miriam obtained her habilitation (venia docendi) in `materials chemistry’. In November 2018 Miriam joined the CeMM - Research Center for Molelcular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences as an Adjunct Principal Investigator.
In June 2019 Miriam obtained a tenure-track assistant professorship at T Wien. The research interests of Miriam Unterlass are centered on compounds that are rich in aromatic and heterocyclic moieties for applications as materials and in biology. The materials the Unterlass Lab investigates are low-molecular weight dyes, high-performance polymers, covalent organic frameworks (COFs), and inorganic-organic hybrids. A major focus lies on the development of novel, environmentally friendly, non-toxic and highly efficient synthetic techniques especially via hydrothermal synthesis and solid-state reactions.
Miriam is committed to seeing her research implemented: in 2017, she co-founded her first company, UGP materials, where she holds the position of CSO.
Yana Vaynzof, Associate editor
Technical University of Dresden, Germany
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0783-0707
Prof. Dr. Yana Vaynzof is the Chair for Emerging Electronic Technologies at the Integrated Centre for Applied Physics and Photonic Materials and the Centre for Advancing Electronics Dresden at the Technical University of Dresden (Germany). She received a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Israel) in 2006 and a M. Sc. In Electrical Engineering from Princeton University (USA) in 2008. In 2011, she received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cambridge (UK). Prior to commencing her current position in 2019, Yana was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge (UK) and an Assistant Professor at Heidelberg University (Germany). Yana Vaynzof is the recipient of a number of fellowships and awards, including the ERC Starting Grant, Gordon Wu Fellowship, Henry Kressel Fellowship, Fulbright-Cottrell Award and the Walter Kalkhof-Rose Memorial Prize. Her research interests lie in the field of emerging photovoltaics focusing on the study of material and device physics of organic, quantum dot and perovskite solar cells by integrating device fabrication and characterisation with the application and development of advanced spectroscopic methods.
Jessica Winter, Associate editor
Ohio State University, USA
Jessica Winter is a Professor in the William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Associate Director of the MRSEC Center for Emergent Materials at the Ohio State University, and Past Chair of the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. She received her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Innovative Visual Rehabilitation at the Boston VA Hospital in 2006. Her research interests include nanomaterials for cancer imaging, diagnostics, drug delivery; and cell migration in the brain tumor microenvironment. She is a co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Core Quantum Technologies, a company commercializing nanoparticle reagents for leukemia diagnostics. She has received the American Chemical Society Rising Star Award and the Golden Mouse Trap Engineering Rising Star Award; she was named to Top 25 STEM professors in Ohio; and is a fellow of the AAAS, AIMBE, and senior member of the IEEE and AIChE.
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.
Li-Zhu Wu, Associate editor
Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, China
Li-Zhu Wu received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Photographic Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the supervision of Professor Chen-Ho Tung in 1995. From 1995−1998, she worked at the Institute of Photographic Chemistry as an associate professor. After a postdoctoral stay (1997−1998) at the University of Hong Kong working with Professor Chi-Ming Che, she returned to the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as a full professor.
Her research interests focus on photochemical conversion, including artificial photosynthesis, visible light catalysis for organic transformation, photoinduced electron transfer, energy transfer and chemical reactions in supramolecular systems. She has published more than 240 peer-reviewed articles, 2 books and 10 book chapters and holds 50 patents. She has been invited to give numerous lectures at international conferences, piquing interest worldwide.
She was the recipient of the National Nature Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2001), New Century Talents Project (2004), 2nd prize of the National Natural Science Award as second principal investigator (2005), "Hundred Talents Program" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2006), the 10th China Youth Science and Technology Award (2007), 7th Young Women Scientists Award of China (2010), the Prize of 10th Physical Organic Chemistry (2013), and the Chinese Chemical Society-Evonik Chemical Innovation Award (2016).
Yusuke Yamauchi, Associate editor
The University of Queensland, Australia
Professor Yusuke Yamauchi received his Bachelor degree (2003), Master degree (2004), and Ph.D. (2007) from Waseda University (Japan). After receiving his Ph.D., he joined the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) (Japan) to start his own research group. In 2016, he joined the University of Wollongong as a Full Professor.
In 2017, he moved to the University of Queensland (UQ). Presently, he is a senior group leader at AIBN and a full professor at School of Chem. Eng. in UQ. He concurrently serves as an honorary group leader at NIMS, a visiting/adjunct/honorary professor at over 50 universities in the world, and an associate editor of J. Mater. Chem. A and Chem. Eng. J. (Elsevier). He has published ~750 papers with ~40,000 citations (h-index > 100) in the field of inorganic materials chemistry and inorganic synthetic chemistry. He is selected as one of the Highly-Cited Researchers in Chemistry in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
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.
Zhen Zhou, Associate editor
Nankai University, China
Zhen Zhou was born in Shandong, China. After he received his BSc (applied chemistry, in 1994) and Ph D (inorganic chemistry, in 1999) at Nankai University, China, he joined the faculty at Nankai University as a lecturer in 1999. Two years later, he began to work in Nagoya University, Japan with Professor Masahiko Morinaga (Ex-President of the Japan Institute of Metals) as a postdoctoral fellow, under the support of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and then he continued his research at EcoTopia Institute, Nagoya University for another two years.
In 2005, he returned to NankaiUniversity as an associate professor of Materials Chemistry. In 2011, he was promoted as a full professor of Materials Science and Engineering at NankaiUniversity. In 2014, he was appointed as Director of Institute of New Energy Material Chemistry, Nankai University. His main research interest is design, preparation and application of advanced materials for energy storage and conversion.
