Seth Marder, Editorial Board Chair
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Seth R. Marder obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985. After postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford, and a National Research Council Resident Research Assoc. at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) California Institute of Technology (Caltech), he became a member of the Technical Staff at the JPL. In 1998, he moved to the University of Arizona where he was a Professor of Chemistry and Optical Sciences. In 2003, he joined the Georgia Institute of Technology where he is currently a Regents’ Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering (courtesy) and the Georgia Power Chair in Energy Efficiency. His research interests are in the fields of nonlinear optics, two-photon absorption, organic electronics, (most recently on the development of n- and p- dopants), and surface chemistry. Among his recognitions and awards, Dr. Marder was a recipient of an NSF Special Creativity Award, the ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, and the MRS Mid Career Award. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Optical Society of America, SPIE, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Physical Society and Materials Research Society.
Markus Antonietti
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
Markus Antonietti is an educated Polymer Chemist and now for about 20 years Director of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. Antonietti`s work is rather widespread and goes from polymers over porous materials to biomimetic principles in material science. His current focus lies on questions of sustainability, the raw material change, and the rediscovery of "simplicity" in science. More than 40 of his former coworkers have reached leading professorships, world-wide. Besides being a passionate scientist, he also plays in a rock-band and enjoys experimental cooking with family and friends.
Anna Balazs
University of Pittsburgh, USA
Anna C. Balazs is the Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Robert von der Luft Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her B.A. in Physics at Bryn Mawr College and her Ph.D. in Materials Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After postdoctoral work in the Polymer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, she joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh in 1987. Her research involves developing theoretical and computational models to capture the behavior of polymeric materials, nanocomposites and multi-component fluids in confined geometries. Balazs served as the Chair of the Division of Polymer Physics of the APS (2000-2001), Co-Chair of the Spring MRS meeting (2000) and served on the APS Public Policy Committee. In addition, she is a Fellow of the APS.
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.
Sossina Haile
Northwestern University, USA
Sossina M. Haile is the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University, a position she assumed in 2015 after serving 18 years on the faculty at the California Institute of Technology. She earned her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992. Haile’s research broadly encompasses solid state ionic materials and devices, with particular focus on energy technologies. She has established a new class of fuel cells based on solid acid electrolytes and demonstrated record power densities for solid oxide fuel cells. Her more recent work on water dissociation for solar-fuel generation by thermochemical processes has created new avenues for harnessing sunlight to meet rising energy demands. Amongst her many awards, in 2008 Haile received an American Competitiveness and Innovation (ACI) Fellowship from the National Science Foundation in recognition of “her timely and transformative research in the energy field and her dedication to inclusive mentoring, education and outreach across many levels.”
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.
Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, Scientific editor
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Thuc-Quyen Nguyen is a professor in the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids and Chemistry & Biochemistry Department at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She received her Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2001 under the supervision of Professor Benjamin Schwartz. From 2001 to 2004, she was a research associate in the Department of Chemistry and the Nanocenter at Columbia University working with Professors Louis Brus and Colin Nuckolls on molecular self-assembly, nanoscale characterization, and molecular electronics. She also spent time at IBM Research Center at T. J. Watson working with Richard Martel and Phaedon Avouris. In 2004, she started an assistant professorship at UCSB and was promoted to full professor in 2011. Her current research interests are structure-function-property relationships in organic semiconductors, electronic properties of conjugated polyelectrolytes, interfaces in optoelectronic devices, charge transport in organic semiconductors and across membranes, device physics, and nanoscale characterization of organic solar cells.
Henry Snaith
University of Oxford, UK
Henry J. Snaith is a professor in the physics department of Oxford University. He received his Ph.D. in 2004 from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and undertook his postdoc at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. His research has been focused on new materials and device architectures for future generation low-cost photovoltaic. Professor Snaith's achievements include the first demonstration of “gyroid” structured titania for dye solar cells, the first demonstration of mesoporous single crystals of anataze TiO2 and the recent discovery of high efficiency solid-state metal-halide perovskite thin film solar cells. In 2010, he founded Oxford Photovoltaics Ltd., which is commercializing perovskite solar cells.
Martina Stenzel, Scientific editor
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. With a DAAD scholarship (German Academic Exchange Service) in her pocket, she 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. In 2002, she took on a position as a Lecturer at the University of New South Wales and worked in The Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD). She now a full Professor. In 2013, she was appointed Co-director of the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD) and Adjunct-Professor in Medicine at the University of Western Sydney. Her research interest is focused on the synthesis of functional polymers with complex architectures such as glycopolymers and other polymers for biomedical applications, especially polymers with in-build metal complexes for the delivery of metal-based anti-cancer drugs.
Kazuo Takimiya
RIKEN, Japan
Kazuo Takimiya received his Ph. D. in 1994 from Hiroshima University under the supervision of Professor Fumio Ogura. Thereafter, he joined Professor Tetsuo Otsubo’s research group at Hiroshima University where he carried out research on organic conductors/superconductors. After returning from his stay with Professor Jan Becher’s group in Odense University, Denmark (1997-1998), he was promoted to an associate professor in 2003. In 2007, he became a full professor at Hiroshima University. In 2013, his group moved to RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), where his group have contributed to the development of organic semiconductors, especially heteroacromatic-based small molecule and polymer semiconductors that can be used as the active materials for organic field-effect transistors and organic photovoltaic cells. In 2017, he also joined Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University as a full professor.
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.
Aron Walsh, Scientific editor
Imperial College London, UK
ORCID: 0000-0001-5460-7033
Aron Walsh is a specialist in the theory and simulation of materials. He is Professor of Materials Design at Imperial College London and holds a dual position at Yonsei University, South Korea. Aron was awarded his BAmod and PhD in Chemistry from Trinity College Dublin. He later worked at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, University College London, and the University of Bath. For his research on materials modelling for energy conversion and storage, including perovskite solar cells, Aron has received the EU-40 prize from the European Materials Research Society, the Chemistry Society Reviews Emerging Investigator Lectureship, and the Philip Leverhulme prize in Chemistry. He currently active in developing innovative solutions for data-driven materials discovery.
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, Scientific Editor
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.
