Martina Stenzel, Editorial Board Chair
University of New South Wales, Australia
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6433-4419
Martina Stenzel studied chemistry at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, before completing her PhD in 1999 at the Institute of Applied Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Germany. She then started working as a postdoctoral Fellow at the UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia, before being appointed as lecture in 2002 at the same University. In 2012 she was promoted to full Professor and is now UNSW Scientia Professor and ARC (Australian Research Council) Laureate Fellow. In 2018 she was elected as Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. Her research interest is focused on the synthesis of functional polymers nanoparticles and their use as drug delivery carriers.
Jean-Luc Bredas, Scientific editor
The University of Arizona, USA
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7278-4471
Professor Jean-Luc Bredas received his B.Sc. (1976) and Ph.D. (1979) degrees from the University of Namur, Belgium. In 1988, he was appointed Professor at the University of Mons, Belgium, where he established the Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials. While keeping an “Extraordinary Professorship” appointment in Mons, he joined the University of Arizona in 1999. In 2003, he moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology where he became Regents’ Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and held the Vasser-Woolley and Georgia Research Alliance Chair in Molecular Design. Between 2014 and 2016, he joined King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) as a Distinguished Professor and served as Director of the KAUST Solar & Photovoltaics Engineering Research Center. He returned to Georgia Tech in 2017 before moving back to the University of Arizona in 2020 where he is currently Regents Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Jean-Luc Bredas is an elected Member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, the Royal Academy of Belgium, and the European Academy of Sciences. Recent honors include the 2013 American Physical Society David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics, the 2016 American Chemical Society Award in the Chemistry of Materials, the 2019 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, the 2020 Materials Research Society Materials Theory Award, and the 2021 Centenary Prize of the RSC. He is an Honorary Professor of the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and holds an Adjunct Professorship at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His Focus Article “Mind the Gap” is the first article that appeared in the very first issue of Materials Horizons
Bruno Chaudret, Scientific editor
University of Toulouse, France
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9290-6421
Bruno Chaudret graduated from École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris in 1975. He received his Ph.D. from Imperial College London in 1977 with Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson and the degree of a "Docteur ès Sciences" at the University of Toulouse in 1979. He is now “Director of Research CNRS”, Director of the "Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie des Nano-Objets" in Toulouse and a member of the French Academy of Science since 2005. He co-authored over 400 publications and was a recipient of several prizes including the Gay-Lussac – Humboldt Prize and the Wilkinson Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Guoping Chen
National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6753-3678
Guoping Chen is a Group Leader at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and a Professor at the University of Tsukuba. He received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 1997 majoring in polymer biomaterials and did postdoctoral research until 2000. He joined the Tissue Engineering Research Center, National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology as a Researcher in 2000 and a Senior Researcher in 2003. He moved to the Biomaterials Center, NIMS as a Senior Researcher in 2004 and was promoted to Group Leader in 2007. He served as a Principal Investigator and Unit Director of the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), NIMS from 2011 to 2017. He concurrently joined the Joint Doctoral Program in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tsukuba as an Associate Professor in 2004 and a Professor in 2013. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, 2015), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE, 2017) and the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE, 2020). His research focuses on biomaterials, scaffolds, biomimetic matrices, micro-patterning, surface modification, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and nanomedicine.
Kisuk Kang, Scientific 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).
Norbert Koch, Scientific Editor
Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6042-6447
Norbert Koch studied technical physics at the Technische Universität Graz, Austria. At the same university he received a doctorate in solid state physics in 2000. After two years as staff scientist at Joanneum Research in Weiz, Austria, he spent two years as postdoc at Princeton University and worked on organic/metal interfaces and covalently surface-bound self-assembled monolayers. Upon moving to Berlin, Germany, in 2003, he started building his own group, and contributed to the fundamental understanding of interfaces of organic semiconductors with inorganic materials and devising methods to optimize interface electronic properties. In 2009 he was appointed as full professor in the Department of Physics of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and in 2010 his group at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie was established. His current research portfolio encompasses unravelling the fundamentals of organic semiconductor doping and hybrid interfaces of electronic materials, such as perovskites and 2D semiconductors.
Yi Long, Scientific editor
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0608-8253
Yi Long received her PhD in Materials Science at Cambridge University with the full scholarship of Overseas Research Scholarship (ORS), United Kingdom Cambridge Trust and Graduate Scholarship of Selwyn College. She started as a Teaching Fellow at Nanyang Technology University Singapore in 2005 with a focus on Lab-to-Fab technology transfer for industries. She successfully delivered three technologies including one coating process to Seagate Technology, the leading hard-disk company in the world. In 2011, she switched to an academic research center on smart materials and devices. Now she is a Global STEM Scholar and associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her group currently focuses on two main topics; the integration of organic and inorganic smart materials with (1) energy-saving applications, and (2) novel advanced functional devices. She has received several awards including the Government's Global STEM Professorship Scheme Hong Kong 2023, Winner for the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2022 in Engineering, GreenAwards Top 3 London 2022 and TechnologyTechConnect Innovation Washington 2016. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Róisín Owens, Scientific Editor
University of Cambridge, UK
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7856-2108
Róisín M. Owens received her BA in Natural Sciences (Mod. Biochemistry) at Trinity College Dublin, and her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Southampton University. She carried out two postdoc fellowships at Cornell University, on host-pathogen interactions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the dept. of Microbiology and Immunology with Prof. David Russell, and on rhinovirus therapeutics in the dept. of Biomedical Engineering with Prof. Moonsoo Jin. From 2009-2017 she was a group leader in the dept. of bioelectronics at Ecole des Mines de St. Etienne, on the microelectronics campus in Provence. She joined the Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology in the University of Cambridge as a University Lecturer in 2019. She is also a Fellow of Newnham College. Her current research centers on application of organic electronic materials for monitoring biological systems in vitro. Her group focuses on two main topics; the integration of electronic materials with (1) cells and tissues for organ-on-chip applications, and (2) cell membranes for studying drug and pathogen interactions. She has received several awards including the European Research Council starting (2011), proof of concept grant (2014) and consolidator (2016) grants, a Marie Curie fellowship, and an EMBO fellowship. She is a 2019 laureate of the Suffrage Science award.
Mark Thompson
University of Southern California, USA
Prof. Mark E. Thompson is Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science and Chemical Engineering at the University of Southern California. Prof. Thompson received his B.S. degree in Chemistry in 1980 (U.C. Berkeley) and his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1985 (California Institute of Technology). He spent 2 years as a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University before taking a position in the chemistry department at Princeton University in 1987, as an assistant professor. In 1995, he moved his research team to the University of Southern California where he holds the Ray R. Irani Chair of Chemistry. His research involves the study of materials and devices for electroluminescence, photovoltaics and solar cells, chemical/biological sensing and catalysis. Prof. Thompson is the author of approximately 400 papers in refereed professional journals and holds more than 250 patents primarily in the areas of optoelectronic applications, such as light emitting devices (LEDs) and solar cells. He is a fellow of the AAAS and National Academy of Inventors. He has received multiple awards for his work in organic LEDs, including the MRS Medal (2006), the Jan Rajchman Medal from the Society for Information Display (2006), ACS Richard C. Tolman Award (2011) and the ACS Chemistry of Materials Award (2015) and most recently he was awarded the IEEE Photonics award in 2016 and the Nishizawa Medal in 2017.
Xun Wang, Scientific editor
Tsinghua University, China
Xun Wang received his bachelor's and master's degree in chemical engineering from Northwest University (Xi`an, China) in 1998 and 2001, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Tsinghua University in 2004. Then he joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University as an assistant professor in 2004. He was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 2005 and full professor in 2007. Wang was appointed Vice-dean, and then Dean of the Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University in 2011 and then 2014, respectively. He was awarded the National Science Foundation for Outstanding Young Scholars in 2007, the ChangJiang Professor (Ministry of Education, China) in 2014 and was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2015. His current research interests include synthetic methodology, self-assembly and properties of inorganic nanocrystals.
Shu Yang
University of Pennsylvania, USA
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8834-3320
Shu Yang is a Professor in the Departments of Materials Science & Engineering, and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at University of Pennsylvania. Yang received her B.S. degree from Fudan University, China in 1992, and Ph. D. degree from Chemistry and Chemical Biology while researching in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University in 1999. She worked at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies as a Member of Technical Staff before joining Penn in 2004. Her group is interested in synthesis, fabrication, and assembly of polymers, liquid crystals, and colloids with controlled size, shape, and geometry at surface and interface, and their dynamic tuning; using geometry to create highly flexible, super-conformable, and shape transformable materials and devices. Yang is a Fellow of Division of Soft Matter (DSOFT) from American Physical Society (APS), Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering from American Chemical Society (ACS), Royal Chemical Society, and National Academy of Inventors. She was TR100 as one of the world’s top 100 young innovators under age of 35 by MIT's Technology Review.
